Bear Perspectives from 4 Year Olds

Children at the Center for Children this morning were abuzz about the bear that was roaming Montrose neighborhoods. Teachers at the Center gave the children the chance to dictate their thoughts about the visitor to the foothills.

Bear Visits Montrose area

Bear Visits Montrose area

UPDATE 8:05 A bear that has been visiting residences in Montrose neighborhoods this morning has been tranquilized in preparation of being transported into the forest. According to Fish and Game officer Lt. Marty Wall, two tranquilizer darts have been administered to the bear that is in the rear yard of an apartment building in the […]

Martinů, Komitas, Mansurian, and Bartók at Dilijan Concert at Zipper Hall

Martinů, Komitas, Mansurian, and Bartók at Dilijan concert at Zipper Hall By Ted AYALA If further confirmation were needed that southern California is in the midst of a chamber music renaissance, then add the Dilijan series at Zipper Hall to the list. Dilijan, which was created by violinist Movses Pogossian and serves as the series’ […]

McGegan Leads Lean and Trim PSO in Mendelssohn, Mozart, and Beethoven

McGegan Leads Lean and Trim PSO in Mendelssohn, Mozart, and Beethoven By Ted AYALA It was a slimmed down Pasadena Symphony that met the audience at the Ambassador Auditorium on Saturday night, March 31. Nicholas McGegan, respected conductor of Baroque music, turned his period performance touch onto the music of Mendelssohn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Though […]

Fallen Firefighter

Fallen Firefighter

By Mary O’KEEFE Fire engines from across Los Angeles County, including Glendale and LA County Fire, lined the overpasses of the Foothill (210) freeway this afternoon to honor a fallen comrade. Capt. David Bailey, 50, died while exercising at Camp 14 in Saugas.  He was an 18-year veteran of LA County Fire Department. Firefighters stood […]

UPDATE:Robbery Occurs on Local Street

  UPDATE Friday, April 6, 2012: Three men were arrested on Thursday suspected of robbing  teens of a cellphone. The robberies allegedly occurred in the area of  Pennsylvania Avenue and Foothill Boulevard.  The men were arrested in the Vons Market parking lot in the 3200 block of Foothill Boulevard. In January similar robberies occurred. At […]

Rescuer Meets Crash Victim Face to Face in Hospital

Rescuer Meets Crash Victim Face to Face in Hospital

On Sunday, March 25, 2012, at approximately 7:45 pm, a female adult resident from Juniper Hills was driving on Angeles Forest Highway near mile marker 10.47 when she hit ice on the roadway which resulted in her vehicle sliding off the roadway.  The victim and her vehicle came to rest 350 feet over the edge, […]

Spiritually Speaking

Spiritually Speaking

QUESTION: I thought I had forgiven my father who was a drunken tyrant when I was growing up; however, recently my adult daughter wanted to know the details of his abuse. I’ve never tried to keep our children from their grandfather, and have said very little to them about the fear my brothers, our mother […]

»Montrose Shopping Park News

Easter Finds In The Montrose Shopping Park Remember how thrilling the Easter egg hunts were growing up? For me it was Chinquapin Park in Baltimore, a long stretch of park with a creek that ran the length of it. There were plenty of places to hide eggs among the rocks and grasses there and such […]