By Ruth SOWBY The Chabad of La Cañada-La Crescenta celebrated the fifth day of the Jewish holiday on Dec. 29 by hosting The Chanukah Festival 2024. The free Festival featured Chanukah crafts, a petting zoo, jelly donuts, latkes (potato pancakes), chocolate gelt and a bouncy house. Memorial Park in La Cañada Flintridge was the site of the […]
LCIF Welcomes Community Lutheran Church in the Foothills holds a variety of events for the community. Visit lcifoothills.org for event details. The website includes information on small group events and opportunities to serve. For those needing pastoral care or other help, please email the church at office@lcifoothills.org or call (818) 790-1951. The church is located […]
What to Watch in 2025 It’s 2025! Can you believe it? Time passes much too quickly. For someone as busy as I, it’s all I can do to just keep up. As a steering committee member of the Crescenta Valley Community Association, I follow proposed development that will affect land use in the Crescenta Valley. […]
The 100-year-old La Crescenta Business – La Crescenta Pharmacy Whereas the business district of Montrose has a sense of long-term stability, Foothill Boulevard’s business center and anchor storefronts have shifted like wind-blown sand dunes in the desert. Although CV’s founder Benjamin Briggs laid out the “city center” of La Crescenta at Foothill and La Crescenta […]
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Local cities prepare their entries for the 2025 Tournament of Roses Parade. By Eliza PARTIKA The float entry by the La Cañada Tournament of Roses Association is almost complete as over 1,300 volunteers helped add to the float flowers and dry materials of all shapes, sizes and colors. Volunteers assisted with moving the float […]
The California State Senate held a swearing-in ceremony on Dec. 2 to officially administer the Oath of Office to the Honorable Sasha Renèe Pèrez who will represent the 25th District, which spans parts of Los Angeles and San Bernardino Counties including portions of La Cañada Flintridge and La Crescenta-Montrose. At age 32, she becomes the […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The ongoing story of the development planned for a new gated community in the hills of La Tuna Canyon in Tujunga has taken a litigation turn with the recent filing of a lawsuit against the No Canyon Hills, a non-profit organization, and two individuals by developer Whitebird, Inc. The lawsuit’s complaints include […]
By Mary O’KEEFE We end the year with some interesting weather-fueled events. The first is the winter solstice, which occurred on Dec. 21. Winter solstice is the shortest day of the year and is the exact moment when half of the Earth is tilted the farthest away from the Sun. The winter solstice is also […]
Waning of Christmas When you read this it will be after Christmas; however, when it was written Christmas was still a few days away. This reflected early deadlines imposed by our printer in order to meet printing demands (same goes for the Jan. 2 paper). But as I write this I’m still listening to Christmas […]