The Crescenta Valley High School mountain bike club came in a strong sixth out of 24 teams on the grueling course at Vail Lake on April 15, beating out St. Francis High School, a San Gabriel Valley composite team and teams from San Marino, Eastlake, Bakersfield and elsewhere. In the individual events, Lucas Rowton placed […]
May-Lane Motel Memories There are many buildings along Foothill Boulevard that echo the past, and the La Crescenta Motel on the corner of Foothill and Briggs is one of the best. Built in the late ’40s as the May-Lane Motel, it was one of several small motels strung along Foothill, then State Highway 118, the […]
Still Being Blown Away It’s been two months since Hovasnnes Dongelyan wrote about the noise, air pollution and disruption of neighborhood serenity caused by irresponsible use of leaf blowers and over a month since I presented the Glendale Homeowners Coordinating Council resolution to the Glendale City Council asking them to agendize regulation of the devices. […]
Round, Brown & 400 Pounds If you were out of town with no access to television or the Internet, you could be forgiven for not knowing that the Crescenta Valley had a 400-pound, fur-covered, dumpster-diving visitor of the bear persuasion in the early morning hours the Tuesday after Easter. During the morning in question, multiple […]
Celebrating a Life Less Known This past Friday, the 13th – just past midnight – my mother-in-law’s husband passed away. Frank was 88 years old and married to my mother-in-law for 10 years. Obviously, he wasn’t my husband’s father. John Goldsworthy died in 1989 at the too young age of 56. After mourning for many […]
“One touch of Nature makes the whole world kin.” ~ William Shakespeare Last Friday afternoon, driving home from Pasadena during the monsoonal thunderstorm, Shakespeare’s “One Touch of Nature” almost got the best of me. After reading the CV Weekly for the past two years, you have probably figured, besides summer evenings and Santa […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Officials and emergency responders held a press conference on Tuesday at the base of the Eaton Canyon Park and Nature Center to make a plea for hikers to be cautious. “There are a large number of people who come here every day, mostly taking designated trails and hiking safely,” said Director Russ […]
Earth Day 2012 An Earth Day event is taking place on Saturday, April 21 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. A wilderness workday and plant hike is planned at Deukmejian Wilderness Park. Everyone is invited to enjoy a beautiful spring morning and help in restoration efforts then take a hike with Restoration Ecologist Melanie Keeley […]
By Jason KUROSU The GUSD Board of Education covered more proposed and potential updates from the Measure S bond in their Tuesday board meeting. The board discussed updates and developments in terms of whole facilities at GUSD campuses, such as auditoriums, athletic facilities and cafeterias, rather than technological or infrastructural upgrades. Jennifer Chin, GUSD’s director […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Rosemont Middle School may have been closed to seventh and eighth graders on Monday but it was still a place of learning. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department used the school as a place for an active shooting training session. The department’s Special Enforcement Bureau, the sheriff’s version of SWAT (Special Weapons […]