1940 – 2014 Mardith J. “Mardy” Wilkins passed away on Feb. 6. She is survived by her husband Bob, daughter Lynette, sister Jean, and grandchildren Alyssa and Trent. Mardy Naregan was born in Santa Barbara in 1940. After relocating to Glendale, she attended Glendale High School (1958), and Glendale City College. She worked at NASA’s […]
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Dear Neighbors: Like a typical Saturday morning, I was enjoying my front yard with my children, letting them play freely outside, and taking in the beauty of our mountain side community. Then a neighbor broke the news that AT&T plans to construct a 70-foot cell phone tower in the middle of our quiet residential […]
The CV High School senior may be preparing for graduation … but first, it’s the Pacific League playoffs. By Brandon HENSLEY Explanations can be tricky. For instance, one night in December one of Ella Stepanian’s black Converse shoes got jammed in one of the steps of the Crescenta Valley High School gymnasium bleachers. Don’t ask […]
Scholarships Available for Graduating Seniors Giving back to the community is part of what the Montrose-Verdugo City Chamber of Commerce does for the local community. Not only are our local businesses important to our city, but the residents and the schools are as well. That is why we believe in giving back to the community […]
Here is the paper for Thursday, February 13, 2014. Check back every Friday to get your copy on your computer, Smartphone, eReader or tablet to take with you on-the-go! If it works or doesn’t work on your device, let us know and we can make a note of it to improve the experience, or if […]
The Montrose Shopping Park is the place to be this Valentine’s Day! When you shop & dine in the Montrose Shopping Park on Valentine’s Day, spending $25 or more, you can take your receipts to our flower truck from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. and get a free, long stem fresh rose! You will also […]
Big Picture: ‘Smart’ Little Town All you trivia enthusiasts out there, are you getting ready for this year’s Smart-A-Thon? Can you answer the following questions: How many mountains are named after George Washington? What size shoe did he wear? About how many people were in the country when he was president? If you answered 7, […]
By Susan JAMES Billed as ‘the greatest art heist in history’, ‘The Monuments Men’ is the story of the five million works of art looted by the Nazis in World War II and a small unit of historians and scholars drafted into the army and sent to Europe for the purpose of getting them back. […]
By Ted AYALA “Nationalist music,” writes José Antonio Alcaraz in his “Reflexiones sobre el nacionalismo musical mexicano” (Reflections on Mexican Musical Nationalism), “[carries] with it echoes of the sectarian, the limiting, the ensnaring. National music, however, consists of the most essential traits that make up the identity of a person.” “To describe Tchaikovsky as a […]