By Mary O’KEEFE Glendale Water & Power will be switching from chlorine to chloramines to disinfect the water in the area of Northern Glendale above Oakmont Golf Course in the Verdugo Canyon, including Montrose and La Crescenta, starting Aug. 8. This conversion will be done to comply with new federal drinking water regulations and will […]
By Maddy PUMILIA SoCal Recycling held an e-waste collection drive at the Crescenta-Cañada YMCA on Sunday with 35% of the proceeds benefiting the facility. A variety of electronics were brought in to be recycled including CPUs, monitors, laptops, cables, wires, printers, faxes, scanners, routers, computer motherboards, cellphones, regular photos, television screens and answering machines. The […]
Dennis Taylor, age 80, passed away at his La Crescenta home on July 15. He was owner and operator of Taylor Tool and Machine Company for over 35 years located in South El Monte. He manufactured aerospace machinery and he was a pilot who enjoyed flying. He was also a past member and Paul Harris […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The Glendale Unified School District continued its community outreach meetings concerning solar construction at local Crescenta Valley campuses. On Tuesday two meetings were held, the first at Rosemont Middle School and the second an hour later at Clark Magnet High School. Deputy Superintendent John Garcia, Chief Business/Financial Officer Eva Lueck, Public Information […]
By Mary O’KEEFE At about 4 p.m. on Sunday two vehicles collided in front of Fayes at Honolulu Avenue and Ocean View Boulevard. Witnesses reported to police that a Mazda traveling southbound on Ocean View Boulevard had turned left in front of a BMW traveling northbound on Ocean View. The vehicles did not hit the […]
It is almost time for the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity to make its landing on Mars. Here are some ways the public can follow the spacecraft’s approach and landing. Two live feeds during key landing activities of Curiosity from mission control at JPL will be carried on NASA TV and on the web from 8:30 […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Los Angeles Police Department homicide detectives are still investigating two deaths that occurred in the area, both with bodies burned. On March 31, the body of Jacob Burns, 21, of San Gabriel Valley was found burned in his 1992 white Honda on Sister Elsie Drive in Tujunga. “We still haven’t made any […]
Sanitariums in CV – Rockhaven Sanitarium Part 3 Last week I covered the physical aspects of Rockhaven Sanitarium – about its founder Agnes Richards, and its growth and development. But the history of Rockhaven would be incomplete without discussing the women that lived there in its decades of operation. Because it was upscale, it had […]
A Hot Time Was Had By All Last week I did something I’ve always said I would never, ever do. I purposefully traveled to Dallas, Tex. in the hot-as-a-flippin’-furnace middle of July. Actually, I’ve always said I would also never, ever, ever go to Houston, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Albuquerque – or for that matter – […]
Warns of Dangerous Dog Thursday night (July 26) at about 8 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., three of our neighbors were out for a walk with their three dogs. Right outside my door on the corner of Henrietta and Ramsdell avenues, a Pit Bull, light brown and about 45 pounds, came out of nowhere and savagely […]