By Misty DUPLESSIS La Crescenta Elementary School Principal Kim Bishop is always looking for ways to expand her students’ cultural experience. Early in the school year Bishop formed a union with College View principal Jay Schwartz to develop a program they hope to permanently adopt. College View is a special needs school serving children who […]
By Misty DUPLESSIS On Dec. 6 Crescenta Valley High School launched its annual competition to raise items for the yearly Fall Food, Toy and Money Drive. On Dec. 15 students anxiously awaited the results of whose class would be named the winner of this year’s collections. The rules were simple. All second period classes were […]
For whatever reason, this month I find myself running out of time, energy and festive fortitude much, much quicker than in previous years. I’m not alone. Perusing Facebook the past few weeks, it seems as though many of us are putting lights up later (mine still aren’t up as I write this), waiting until the […]
Two weeks ago I set the stage for a showdown between the left-wing Hugh Hardyman and the right-wing American Legion members in an early conflict of what was later known as the McCarthy Era. Hardyman was somewhat of a political oddball in the very staid, conservative Crescenta Valley. The newspapers of that time jumped on […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Around 2 p.m. Sunday afternoon, the 5300 block of Pineridge Road was blocked off as Los Angeles County firefighters and workers from Los Angeles County Department of Public Works responded to a call of flooding. When they arrived they found the flooding occurred not because of full debris basins but due to […]
By Mary O’KEEFE A 16-year-old boy fell into the wash that runs through Crescenta Valley Park on Sunday. “He fell in at the north of the park [near Dunsmore Avenue] and got swept down to the bottom end of the park,” said Capt. Stuart Stefani of the Glendale Fire Department. The boy was apparently attempting […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The CVS Pharmacy in Montrose was evacuated Saturday morning, Dec. 18, while Glendale police conducted a search for a man suspected of an attempted car jacking that occurred earlier. About 8:30 a.m. Glendale police received a call of a suspicious man that went into the CVS store to use the restroom. An […]
By Misty DUPLESSIS In recent years residents of the foothill community have witnessed the shrinking number of people who display Christmas trees and decorations during the holiday season. While some merchants in the Montrose area chose not to take part in the annual festivities, Glendale Are Schools Federal Credit Union president Stuart Perlitsh decided to […]
By Jason KUROSU Governor-Elect Jerry Brown held a state budget forum last Tuesday at UCLA in which he highlighted the budgetary obstacles that California will face going into the new year. Brown made no secret of the budget problems. “We’re facing some pretty … pretty is a soft word. This is really a huge challenge, […]
By Misty DUPLESSIS La Crescenta and Montrose residents are no strangers to indulging in the Christmas spirit. Families have been known to be extravagant in their pursuit of creating a perfect holiday home including coordinating music to blinking lights. This year is no exception for the foothill community. The Crescenta Valley Town Council joyfully awarded […]