By Charly SHELTON Montrose Shopping Park, after nearly three years of working with the City of Glendale, finally has new trash cans. The weeks’ long process of slowly rotating in a few trash cans at a time into their new locations is complete so now the cans around Montrose are the updated ones, which will […]
May 9 1900 block of Verdugo Boulevard in La Cañada, a deputy responded to a burglary alarm call. When he arrived he noticed the front door of the business was ajar with fresh pry marks. Other units responded and after an investigation it was found no one was in the business. The deputies found the […]
1928 – 2016 Dorothy H. Holland, a longtime resident of the La Crescenta area, died Sunday, May 1. She was born in 1928 in Chicago, Illinois. After graduating from Broad Ripple High School in 1946 in Indianapolis, Indiana, she moved to California and received a degree in electrolysis from Los […]
1951 – 2016 Ernest Victor “Skipper” Pistacchio, resident of Los Angeles County for over 60 years, died Sunday, May 1 at the age of 64. He was born to Ernest John and Gloria Marie (Rossi) Pistacchio in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1951, and moved with his family to Montrose in 1952. He was preceded […]
The Annual Amgen Tour of California will pass through the City of La Cañada Flintridge on May 16. The Amgen race, modeled after the Tour de France, is an eight-day professional bicycle race through the state of California. One of the first stages of the course runs through the City. On May 16, the Amgen […]
On May 19 at 7 p.m., the City of La Cañada Flintridge will host a Public Safety Forum focusing on cyber crime and phone scams. The event will be held at City Hall in council chambers and is open to the public. With the rise of the internet, more criminals are exploiting individuals online. Threats […]
In July, six La Cañada Flintridge youth will travel to Washington, D.C. to represent the community at the 60th Annual Conference of the Sister Cities International Youth Leadership Summit. Sister Cities International was started during the Eisenhower Administration to encourage citizen diplomacy by forging bonds between people from different cultures around the world. The Youth […]
Less Ordinary, More Drama Regarding the proposed Foothill Boulevard medians, Bron [Ruf] works with me and if the people directing this project would listen to him La Crescenta would have a blue ribbon project. Unfortunately the folks in charge are caught up in what an everyday designer will plant. What Bron wants to create is […]
Get Out the Vote! The Presidential race has been on everyone’s mind, but local elections are just as important. June primaries are just around the corner. The Crescenta Valley Town Council has been hosting the supervisor candidates for the last several months. Kathryn Barger will be speaking at the next Town Council meeting on May […]
The Hundred-Year History of Whiting Woods – Part 1 Yes it’s true, Whiting Woods is a century old this year. In 1916, Perry Whiting purchased his first parcel of land in Henderson Canyon, one of the larger canyons of the Verdugo Mountains facing the Crescenta Valley. Perry Whiting was a turn-of-the-century self-made millionaire who as […]