Awards, food and live music will celebrate Montrose’s 101st birthday. By Brandon HENSLEY The Crescenta Valley has long been thought of as a place where the volunteer spirit shines, and Bob Thompson knows all about that. A retired Montrose postmaster, Thompson now spends his time cleaning up several blocks every week along Honolulu Avenue as […]
Groundbreaking for the construction of College View School, a school designed for students needing highly specialized care, took place Wednesday afternoon. College View School is located at 1700 E. Mountain Ave. in Glendale and members of the Glendale Unified School District board of education were joined by district officials, staff, students and parents of the […]
CVHS Presents ‘Beauty & the Beast’ Crescenta Valley High School Performing Arts Dept. presents “Beauty & the Beast.” Performances are Feb. 21, Feb. 22, Feb. 28 and March 1 at 7 p.m. and Feb. 23 at 2 p.m. Tickets for the show are $20 for reserved seating and $10 for regular seating. For students, the […]
By McKenna MIDDLETON, intern It is the desire of every parent to be at the milestones in their child’s life – and a daughter’s first dance is no exception. It was a special night for both father and daughter at Valley View Elementary School’s Daddy Daughter Dance held on Friday night, Feb. 7. The seventh […]
Hack In The USSR (or) Olympic Dreams & Disappointments One of the easiest things anyone can do once every four years is to sit on the couch, watching TV coverage of the Winter Olympics and carp, complain and generally criticize the genetically blessed, gorgeously fit athletes who don’t live up to media-generated expectations. So here […]
World Famous Goats of the Crescenta Valley In the 1920s, the Crescenta Valley was home to several goat farms for the production of goat milk. Goat milk was then, like now, considered to be a health food. Milk goats were a hot item, particularly in the health-conscious Crescenta Valley where many invalids had moved for […]
Stunned At What She Read My letter is in regards to the startling information given by Suzy Jacobs, executive director of CV Alliance in [the Jan. 30] edition of the CV Weekly. I was first offended in reading that 85% of NFL players participated in [the] Super Bowl with a concussion. Then I had to […]
Our second Teen Trials & Tribulations talk was on bullying prevention, an issue so many people tell me is relevant. Those present heard from Scott Anderle, EdD, GUSD Student Support Services, Cynthia Livingston, EdD, Rosemont principal, David Johnson, anti-bullying motivational speaker, and our own Glendale Police Officer Joe Allen. Linda Evans, retired CVHS principal, acted […]
“When said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be certain.” – Alice Hoffman, “Here on Earth” The above quotation was especially true on Feb. 14. Within a 24 hour period, both Valentine’s Day and the weather were all over the map – one figuratively and the […]
Dorothy Skiles, long time resident and Sunland-Tujunga’s poet laureate for 2012-14, will be giving a farewell reading at the upcoming Village Poets of Sunland-Tujunga’s Monthly Poetry Reading Series. The community is invited to the event that will be held on Sunday, Feb. 23 from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at Bolton Hall Museum. Skiles’ poetry […]