July 14, 2017 On July 14, Regan Matthew Jung died suddenly at work. Regan was 52 years old and lived in La Crescenta most of his life. Regan was a hard-working man with many talents. He tried his hand at different jobs over the years, from auto mechanic to truck driver to cook, and recently […]
Projectionist Joe Renaudo will bring his vintage equipment to Two Strike Park to share films from the past. By Joanna KIM, intern With the digitalization of movies and videos in the modern age, silent films of the 1920s and ’30s are often forgotten. Joe Rinaudo, a local silent cinema historian and founder of […]
By Brandon HENSLEY It was only a month ago pundits and prognosticators salivated at the thought of a three-team race in the National League West. The Dodgers, Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies were bunched together like brothers forced to share the same room. Excitement and tension were in the air. This was going to be […]
By Joanna KIM intern On July 22, the Crescenta-Cañada Lions Club will be holding a drive to collect backpacks for its annual Kases for Kids donation event. The event, held in partnership with the Los Angeles Dept. of Children and Family Services, will take place in the parking lot of the Ralphs market at the […]
March 21, 1936 – July 4, 2017 Warren J. Boehm, 81, left this earth while asleep at home early in the morning on his favorite holiday. Warren was born at home in Le Center, Minnesota. His parents, Frank and Kathryn, and brother Lambert (deceased) left Minnesota when Warren was 2 years old to arrive in […]
By Julie BUTCHER The Outdoor Lighting Community Survey went out in the mail to Los Angeles County residents of La Crescenta-Montrose on Monday, July 17. Owners of each property should be receiving the survey from the County Dept. of Regional Planning to assess whether the current regulations for outdoor residential lighting are acceptable or if […]
The Campbell Center will be the site of the Third Annual Texas Hold’em Poker Tournament on Saturday, Aug. 26 starting with check in at 5:30 p.m. and the tournament at 7 p.m. This fundraiser debuted in early 2016 and quickly became a favorite of the organization’s supporters who helped raise close to $22,000 for the […]
Ask Phyllis! Planning My Sale Dear Phyllis, My youngest child graduates high school next year and will be going off to college. My husband and I plan to sell our La Canada home and move to a Pasadena condo. We are in a position to buy the condo without selling our home, but wouldn’t want […]
By Mary O’KEEFE At Tuesday’s Glendale Unified School District board meeting, two parents asked the board to take another look at the permits that had been rejected from Franklin Elementary School, a magnet school. They spoke of when they first arrived at Franklin and had signed an agreement to stay through sixth grade, something both […]
» MOVIE REVIEW By Charly SHELTON Comic book movies are all the rage right now. Avengers, Justice League, and even Aquaman have movies coming up. So it stands to reason that plumbing the depths of the medium to find anything yet untouched may pay off. Just slap a few writers on the script, find a […]