NEWS FROM CVTC » Harry Leon

Glendale College, Lighting Survey Results Among Topics at Next CVTC Meeting I hope that everyone so far has had a wonderful and pleasant summer. The start of a new year in our La Crescenta schools is around the corner. Thanks to parents’ efforts to save summer, the school year is starting later this year than […]

Treasures of the Valley » Mike Lawler

Montrose Search and Rescue – Injured Man Found Via Cellphone App and Facebook Continuing with the “cellphone rescues” theme I’ve been writing about lately, we get another good story from the Montrose Search and Rescue’s technical expert Steve Goldsworthy. Steve in my last column related that today, Montrose Search and Rescue uses every available technology […]

Etc Gourmet Kitchen Hosts Cooking Classes

Etc Gourmet Kitchen Hosts Cooking Classes

By Jimean LEE, intern Etc Gourmet Kitchen in Montrose showed its good taste by hosting a children’s cooking class last week. The class was held afternoons from Aug. 1 through Aug. 4 from 3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. for children ranging in age from 6 to 10. An evening class from 6 p.m. to 8:30 […]

Local Student Discovers the Joy of Sharing her Culture

La Crescenta resident Mayreni Abajian recently returned from a year abroad in Tokyo, Japan, where the unexpected highlight of her trip was introducing the Japanese people to aspects of her Armenian culture. Classmates and friends understood that she is an American, but were surprised to learn about her Armenian heritage, most of them having no […]

YOUTH NOTES

Glendale Youth Orchestra Performs at Alex Theatre The Glendale Youth Orchestra, conducted by Brad Keimach, will be holding auditions for the upcoming 29th season on Sunday, Aug. 20 and Sunday, Aug. 27 with some additional opportunities offered throughout the season. Auditions are required for both prospective and returning members. Auditions will involve playing an excerpt […]

»Montrose Shopping Park News

Lights! Camera! Action! Free Movies and Free Popcorn! It’s time once more to drink in a balmy summer’s evening under the stars as the Montrose Shopping Park Association presents its 8th Annual Montrose Family Film Festival on Friday and Saturday, Aug. 18 and Aug. 19. Two outdoor locations … four great films … all free! […]

»Crescenta Valley Chamber of Commerce “Our Business is Your Business”

If You’ve Ever Considered Joining the Chamber … Now’s the time! The windows of opportunity for two important promotional benefits of Chamber membership are about to close.   We’re coming up on the publication date of our 2017-18 Best Business Directory. This useful booklet is hand-delivered to over 10,000 households in the Crescenta Valley. It’s […]

LUC Meeting Reviews Results of Lighting Survey

By Julie BUTCHER To bring the ongoing debate about La Crescenta-Montrose’s residential street lighting to a genial resolution, an outdoor lighting community survey went out in the mail to 5,647 property owners on July 17. The surveys were due back by midnight on Aug. 7. At its Aug. 3 meeting, the Land Use Committee (LUC) […]

Marion R. Robman

Marion Ruth Robman, 98, died on Wednesday, July 19 in USC Verdugo Hills Hospital.   Born in Wolverton, Minnesota she grew up in Breckenridge, Minnesota. The family later moved to Minneapolis and after she graduated from high school, they moved to Los Angeles. In 1944, she married Harold Robman and in 1952 they moved into […]

GPD Responds to Montrose Avenue

Glendale police responded to calls earlier this evening to the 2700 block of Montrose Avenue. The callers thought they were witnessing a kidnapping. However, the man and woman involved were boyfriend and girlfriend and the incident was a possible domestic dispute.