By Mary O’KEEFE The 30th Annual Challenge Cup/Baker to Vegas Relay was held last weekend. Locally Glendale police and Los Angeles County sheriffs from Crescenta Valley and Altadena stations participated in the 120-mile race. “We did well. We finished second in our category,” said Lt. John Gilkerson, GPD. “We finished 35 out of the 261 […]
In response to a precipitous drop in regional film production, Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich authored a motion unanimously approved by the board of supervisors to launch an aggressive effort to halt runaway production. The flight of the multi-billion dollar film and production industry has created an enormous impact on the Los Angeles County economy – […]
By Mary O’KEEFE At one time, St. James the Less and Holy Redeemer schools were separate K-8 schools; in 2009 they merged. St. James took over the responsibility for the elementary school, while Holy Redeemer handled grades six through eight. By separating the grades and campuses, each school is able to direct educational programs specifically […]
By Jason KUROSU Last year, the inaugural Welcome Home, Vietnam Veterans ceremony was held near the nation’s first city-sponsored Vietnam memorial, located at the corner of Honolulu Avenue and Ocean View Boulevard in Montrose. Forty-five years after its construction, veterans gathered at the memorial to share their experiences and speak about the different responses for […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Crescenta Valley knows Sgt. Burton Brink as the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Dept. community officer from the CV Station, but in Arcadia he is Candidate Brink, facing a new and different challenge. Brink has a history in Arcadia. He grew up there, his mother served on the city’s planning commission and he […]
By Ted AYALA Glendale City Council agreed to execute an agreement with a Los Angeles-based firm that would help Glendale move forward with the second and third phases of its ambitious Glendale Narrows Riverwalk Project. Funding for phase two of the plan – $1.53 million – is secured, said director of Community Services and Parks […]
By Jason KUROSU Identity theft cases and complaints have skyrocketed over the past few decades, as the sophistication of white-collar crime has increased with advancements in technology. California ranked third in the Federal Trade Commission’s 2013 list of states with the most identity theft per capita, following only Florida and Georgia. The commission also recorded […]
»Politics: A Personal Perspective By Kevork KURDOGHLIAN The California Democrats State Convention on Saturday, March 8 held at the Los Angeles Convention Center was my first political convention. I’ve been enthralled by politics since I was 7 years old, since my first journalism class at Paradise Canyon Elementary in the summer of 2002, yet it […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The suspect who was the center of a burglary investigation that began on Thursday that included both Los Angeles County sheriffs and the Glendale Police Dept. has been arrested. Late Thursday afternoon a burglary occurred in the Highridge Road area of La Crescenta. It was alleged the suspect stole a shotgun from […]
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