March 29, 1930 – Aug. 10, 2011 Dorothy Jean Germain, 81, of La Cañada passed away Wednesday, Aug. 10. Dorothy was born to the late Clark and Martha Lessig on March 29, 1930 in Uniontown, Pa. She graduated from Uniontown Senior High School and attended Slippery Rock State Teachers College. She and her parents moved […]
On Saturday, the Tri-Cities Bandit and an accomplice were arrested by deputies with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Lost Hills Station. The suspects were linked to a tenth bank robbery on Saturday at a First California Bank in Westlake Village. Ernest Viana, 39, was arrested by LASD deputies on suspicion of bank robbery. A […]
By Maddy PUMILIA The Crescenta-Cañada Lions Club is hosting its second annual Kases For Kids, a charity event aimed to give foster children something of their own. The event is in conjunction with the Los Angeles Mid-Valley Lions Club working with the L.A. Department of Children Services. They hope to collect suitcases ¬– with wheels […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The east coast has had a little west coast shaking due to an unusually strong earthquake for that area. A quake registering as a 5.8 magnitude, according to U.S. Geologic Society, struck on Tuesday at 5:51 p.m., followed by an aftershock registering at 2.8, at 6:46 p.m. More aftershocks continued with two […]
Aug. 20 Angeles Forest Highway mile marker 18.87, an iPod, two phones and wallet were stolen and the front passenger window was smashed on a vehicle after the owner parked it and went hiking. The incident occurred between 1 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. Angeles Forest Highway mile marker 18.87, three cellphones were stolen and the […]
By Mary O’KEEFE On Monday, a man entered the See’s Candies store at 1133 Foothill Blvd. in La Cañada at 6 p.m., just before the store was scheduled to closed. He ordered the two employees to lock the door and demanded money from the cash register. There were no customers in the store at the […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Less than a year after fundraising officially began, the Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s Station Memorial is now days from completion. The memorial is located in the grassy area of the CV Sheriff’s Station parking lot entrance at 4554 Briggs Ave. in La Crescenta. The memorial is dedicated to two fallen CV Sheriff deputies […]
I’m probably going to ruffle some local feathers with my comments this week, because the subject of this column took considerable effort by some of my fellow Foothills residents to make happen. As an avid cyclist, I’m thrilled that we now have bike lanes on Foothill. I thank the CV Town Council from the bottom […]
Last week I wrote about Spike Jones Market that was located on the southeast corner of Foothill Boulevard and La Crescenta Avenue through the ’50s and ’60s. That brought in several emails from former customers that fondly remembered the little community market. Floyd Farrar grew up in the valley, but now lives in Orange County. […]
By Brandon HENSLEY There was a young adults book series in the ’90s called “The Reel Kids Adventures,” where a group of teenagers would trek across different countries and tape their (mis)adventures. Ryon Tanara, Graham Freeman and Amy Chan are now taking that concept to the extreme. Freshly out of college, the three of them […]