By YooJin SHEEN, intern The Montrose-Verdugo City Chamber of Commerce hosted its quarterly Art Walk event from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, July 19 at the Montrose Shopping Park. The event took place along the 2300 and 2400 blocks of Honolulu Avenue and included booths that housed various artists who displayed and demonstrated […]
Tuesday Table Talk On Tuesday, Aug. 5, Bethel Church in Sun Valley will offer a showing of the film “The Sandlot.” Eager to make friends, new kid in town Scotty heads for the neighborhood sandlot, hoping to join a pickup baseball game. When he launches a ball signed by Babe Ruth into the junkyard […]
By Samantha SLAYBACK Fruit fans from several neighboring cities braved the heat the weekend of July 19-20 to travel to Arcadia for the 53rd annual Sunland-Tujunga Watermelon Festival. The nonprofit festival is hosted every year by the Sunland-Tujunga Lions Club and entices guests from all over the Los Angeles area. This year’s festival was held […]
By Jason KUROSU The Draft Environmental Impact Report for Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy’s modernization project has been released and is currently available for public comment until Aug. 27. Titled the Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy Draft Specific Plan, the project is intended to upgrade the campus in several facets, including modernizing and expanding the Arts and […]
By Jason KUROSU California’s extended drought has prompted the Crescenta Valley Water District to implement a yellow alert, an “extraordinary conservation alert” denoting that customers should minimize water usage and water outdoors no more than three days per week. Statewide, the situation has become so dire that a penalty of $500 a day will be […]
The Rich Bounty of Old Briggs Terrace Doctor Benjamin Briggs is considered our founder having laid out our streets, founded churches and schools, and even coined the name “Crescenta.” He first established himself in 1881 on the shelf of land that sticks out high above the valley at Pickens Canyon – today a neighborhood known […]
The Do’s and Don’ts of Your Sewage/Wastewater System Water not only comes into our homes – water also goes out. While a lot of attention is paid to how we use – or do not use – our water, very little attention is paid to the water that leaves our home – our sewage or […]
This past week, four of the CV Youth Alliance’s teen members attended a conference in Orlando, Florida. The conference was hosted by the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America and built on the framework of the National Coalition Institute’s National Coalition Academy. At this conference, youth learned how to help community coalitions be more effective in […]
Calling Street Maintenance Clank – clank – clank goes the manhole cover, all day, all night at the intersection of Honolulu Avenue and Dunsmore. The neighbors have been calling street maintenance since April … they’ve been out a couple of times to try to fix it, but have failed to do so. Whenever a wheel […]
Max Burton, 18, a recent graduate of Crescenta Valley High School, will be starting at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo as a freshman for the fall semester. He will study manufacturing engineering. Burton received a “full-ride” scholarship to underwrite the cost of tuition, room and board, and expenses for his entire college education. The scholarship […]