By Mary O’KEEFE After the Glendale Fire Department engine drove down Honolulu Avenue on Saturday and Santa waved at those lined along the sidewalk, the 35th Annual Montrose Christmas Parade came to an end. “[Our count] was about 21,000 to 22,000 people attending the parade,” said Lt. Steve Robertson, Glendale Police Department. That figure is […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Crescenta Valley students learned a lesson in working together and the value of cellphone lights last Thursday and Friday. Crescenta Valley was part of the more than 200,000 Southern California Edison customers that lost power in last week’s windstorm. Students dealt with darkened halls using flashlights and cellphone lights to open their […]
By Agnes CONSTANTE The Crescenta Valley Chamber of Commerce is hosting a USO Canteen fundraiser tonight to rebuild the Heroes of Freedom Two Strike Park War Memorial. The event will take place at the La Crescenta Woman’s Club, 4004 La Crescenta Ave., from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. The memorial, which was built in 1959, […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The largest Mars science laboratory to date is well on its way to the red planet. The journey will take the spacecraft, carrying the rover Curiosity, 254 days to get from Earth to Mars. The launch on Nov. 26 was picture perfect, and the mission is off to a great start […]
By Jason KUROSU Since the approval of Measure S in April, a bond measure whose funds will be used to improve and upgrade the facilities and technology of schools within the Glendale Unified School District, district officials have been working to pinpoint specific projects and to prioritize needs and wants before looking for approval from […]
A community forum will be held at the MacDonald Auditorium at Crescenta Valley High School at 6 p.m. tonight. The topic will be the possible closure of the school’s campus during lunch. Glendale Unified School District Deputy Superintendent Dr. John Garcia will be leading the discussion. Other members of the district’s staff including Asst. Superintendent […]
Dec. 4 700 block of Hillcrest Avenue in La Cañada Flintridge, about $10,000 worth of jewelry was stolen and pry marks were found on the rear sliding glass door at a residence between 6 p.m. and 7:25 p.m. 900 block of Flintridge Avenue in La Cañada, four televisions were stolen and a home was ransacked. […]
That’s it. I’ve officially changed the lyrics of the classic Christmas song, “Let It Snow” to “Let It Blow”! I’m mean, chill out, Mutha Nature. That Santa Ana event our county weathered last week was nothing short of epic. In my many years here in Southern California, we’ve made the national news several times due […]
As I outlined in last week’s column, Whiting Woods, one of CV’s most sedate neighborhood, had its origins in vice and crime and was the stage for perhaps CV’s only racially charged murder. The story is given to us in an autobiography of Perry Whiting, founder of the Whiting-Mead building supply company, still in business […]
Activism is Alive and Well in CV I was at the Fire House [youth center] on Tuesday night, Nov. 29 when high school and middle school kids discussed the possible closure of their Crescenta Valley High School campus for lunch with Glendale Unified School District Deputy Superintendent Dr. John Garcia. First, let me say if […]