By Mary O’KEEFE The Montrose Shopping Park Association is inviting all to join them for the first annual Tree Lighting Ceremony to kick off the holiday season. The tree, which will be located at the southeast corner of Honolulu Avenue and Ocean View Boulevard, is just part of the White Friday celebration for the shopping […]
By Ted AYALA For restaurants along Honolulu Avenue, outdoor dining has been an essential part of the area’s atmosphere that has helped attract customers. And it has now gotten a lot more expensive. As part of a budget package approved by City Council on June 28, the permits for allowing restaurants to keep outdoor dining […]
By Leonard COUTIN On Saturday, Scouts of all levels took part in the annual Scouting for Food event. Troops began in the early morning to collect bags that were dropped empty at homes around the area the week prior. Their hope was the bags would be left curbside and full, ready for pick up. What […]
Margaret Crippen Wurtz passed away peacefully at home with her pets on her lap surrounded by loved ones. She was 98 years old. She is survived by her son Bill and his family, wife Cindy, grandchildren Kristina and Patrick, and their mother Theresa Wurtz, and by her son Brian and his family, wife Kim, and […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Dr. John Garcia, deputy superintendent for Glendale Unified School District, presented information concerning the possible lunch closure of the Crescenta Valley High School campus to the school board at their Nov. 15 meeting. Garcia gave a timeline that will lead to the board’s decision on whether to keep the open campus lunch […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s Toy and Food Drive, sponsored and organized by the station’s volunteers, is off and running – literally – with help from the La Cañada Flintridge Thanksgiving Day Run and Food Drive. “La Cañada [Run officials] contacted all the elementary schools and they all participated in food [donations],” said […]
A fatal vehicle accident occurred on Monday about 6:45 a.m. on La Tuna Canyon, south of the Foothill (210) Freeway in Tujunga. A white Toyota Tacoma pick-up truck traveling eastbound on La Tuna Canyon apparently lost traction on the wet pavement and slid sideways into the westbound lanes. A red Scion was travelling westbound and […]
A Bushel of Thanks I’ve written on this page before about a cherished tradition my family once had of putting up a Thanksgiving tree on our living room wall in mid-November each year. My wife is uniquely gifted when it comes to creative handicrafts (and cooking, too, but I don’t have room for that topic […]
Logging in the Crescenta Valley? Last week I described the dense forests of 100-foot tall Big Cone Douglas Fir trees that once covered the canyons of the San Gabriel Mountains above our valley and current efforts to replant. But now I’d like to talk about the logging operations that removed those forests in the first […]
Fear of Speaking Up in La Cañada Flintridge Every community has a culture that governs what people feel comfortable talking about publicly. La Cañada Flintridge is so much different from the open culture of the town where I served as a member of the board of education back in a New York suburb. That school […]