Photo courtesy of Kamila Melko/Tic Tac Photography High school students Mark Matheu, Jully Chung and Tina Stephens lead Rosemont students in cheers and games to begin the weekend at Camp Firework.

By Aimee YEGHIAYAN On a recent Friday morning, waiting for the bus to arrive, the high school camp staff was impatient, smiling but with a glimmer of fear, ready for Camp Firework to begin. Camp Firework is a three-day leadership camp held at Camp Highland, a site nestled in the San Gorgonio Pass between San […]

Mountain Avenue and All Things Science

By Misty DUPLESSIS On the evening of Jan. 25, Mountain Avenue Elementary students displayed an array of science projects in the auditorium for the parent/family night as they wrapped up their annual Science Fun Fair. Students stood by their experiments and answered questions, performed demonstrations and talked about the inspiration for their projects. First grade […]

Mountain Avenue and All Things Science

By Misty DUPLESSIS On the evening of Jan. 25, Mountain Avenue Elementary students displayed an array of science projects in the auditorium for the parent/family night as they wrapped up their annual Science Fun Fair. Students stood by their experiments and answered questions, performed demonstrations and talked about the inspiration for their projects. First grade […]

Building Leaders at Camp Firework

  By Aimee YEGHIAYAN On a recent Friday morning, waiting for the bus to arrive, the high school camp staff was impatient, smiling but with a glimmer of fear, ready for Camp Firework to begin. Camp Firework is a three-day leadership camp held at Camp Highland, a site nestled in the San Gorgonio Pass between […]

Treasures of the Valley: The Opera Star from La Crescenta

  By Mike Lawler Lawrence Tibbett was, in the ’30s through the ’50s, the biggest name in opera, as big a name as Placido Domingo is today, and surprisingly he had roots right here in CV. My mom was a fan of Tibbett when she was a young girl growing up in Wisconsin. Each Saturday […]

My Thoughts Exactly: Ad Makers Get Their Game On

In case you’ve been living under a rock since the holidays, this Sunday is the Big Game. As the nation’s mega-TV-watching event of the year approaches, the teams involved are most certainly gearing up to see whose reputations will be crushed in agonizing defeat – and whose will be hoisted high on the pillars of […]

Community Alert from GPD: Restaurant Patio Furniture Stolen

On Jan. 7 from 4 a.m. to 6 a.m., two male suspects removed all of the patio furniture and propane heaters from an open, unlocked restaurant patio in the 2100 block of Verdugo Boulevard. They made three loads, leaving for 30-minute intervals. It is believed they are utilizing a white passenger van, possibly a GMC […]

MSR Training Session Becomes a Snowy Rescue

MSR Training Session Becomes a Snowy Rescue

Photos by John RODARTE By Mary O’KEEFE On Sunday while members of Montrose Search and Rescue were training near Little Jimmy Trail Camp, they received a call concerning a camper who needed help. Linda Navroth is not new to camping. She knows how to prepare to go into the wilderness and has all the right […]

FBI Arrests Glendale Man in ‘Sextortion’ Case

By Mary O’KEEFE A Glendale man accused of hacking into hundreds of Facebook, Skype and email accounts and extorting women into showing him naked bodies was arrested on Tuesday on federal computer hacking charges. Special agents with the FBI arrested Karen “Gary” Kazaryan, 27, of Glendale on Tuesday morning on federal computer hacking charges. Kazaryan, […]

Checking Out ‘Images of America: Montrose’

By Natalie MAIER Did you know that inside Julian’s Dog Gone Cute store in the 3800 block of Oceanview Boulevard are old jail cells from when it was a police station in the 1920s until the 1970s? Or that the building that Polkatots Cupcakes occupies in the 2200 block of Honolulu Avenue was the first […]