By Charly SHELTON Last weekend, the Montrose Shopping Park Association hosted its third annual Montrose Film Festival. Held in the parking lot next to Andersen’s Pets on the former site of the Montrose Theater, the film festival is an opportunity to bring the community together for an evening of food, fun and films. This year’s […]
CVWD Holding Rate Increase Hearing On Tuesday, Sept. 4 at 6:30 p.m., the Crescenta Valley Water District will hold a public hearing on a proposed wastewater rate increase for October 2012 and July 2013. This hearing will be held at the district office at 2700 Foothill Blvd. in La Crescenta. The City of Los Angeles […]
“If they’re headed somewhere and you try to stop them, they’ll look for another way … They’ll climb over, they’ll climb under, they’ll climb around. They keep looking for another way.” ~ ‘The Ant Philosophy’ by Jim Rohn As the last days of summer draw near, Labor Day arrives. An encore of the season. No […]
An Artful Weekend As temperatures (and air conditioning bills) rise, it’s hard to believe that just this past Saturday night I had to bring a sweater with me to the Third Annual Montrose Film Festival on Honolulu Avenue. I wasn’t able to attend Friday night’s screening of “Back to the Future,” but on Saturday I […]
By Brandon HENSLEY The foothills have long been a place where the Korean and Armenian communities have lived side by side, but now leaders in those communities have decided it’s time for the two cultures to fully embrace each other. In just over two weeks, a plan to do so will be put into action […]
By Ted AYALA Proponents for alternate modes of transportation secured a victory on Tuesday. Glendale City Council passed a bicycle transportation plan that will enable Glendale to accommodate its growing demographic of bicyclists on city roads along with motorists. The plan – costing an estimated $5.8 million – may see the city doubling the amount […]
By Mary O’KEEFE A Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s deputy shot and killed a pit bull Monday morning after it attacked a small dog in a La Crescenta neighborhood. The incident occurred about 9:30 a.m. when a resident was walking his two small dogs near Mountain Pine Drive and Ramsdell Avenue. “As I approached Ramsdell and Markridge […]
In the Aug. 23 issue, we misspelled the name of one of the Explorers. Below is the caption with the correct spelling.
Aug. 27 2400 block of Rockdell Street in La Crescenta, someone pried open the locking gas cap of a vehicle, damaging the gas filler pipe, and siphoned five gallons of fuel from the tank on Aug. 23 at 1 a.m. 4300 block of Belaire Drive in La Cañada Flintridge, a man discovered that someone had […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Documentary producer Brian Gerber, 41, has been found dead near his vehicle that plunged off a cliff on the Angeles Crest Highway. On Wednesday at about 7 a.m., Montrose Search and Rescue recovered Gerber’s body that had apparently been thrown from his vehicle as it went over a cliff at mile marker […]