Holidays Don’t Offer Break for CVTC As the holiday season is upon us, the Crescenta Valley Town Council is continuing to work hard on issues that matter most to the community. We would first like to thank the community for attending our annual pancake breakfast last month. We had a record turnout! This is the […]
March of Dimes Celebrity Parade 1954 Last week I wrote about the origin of the March of Dimes. It was a grassroots fundraising effort to find the vaccine for the disease of polio. Polio was a scourge in the early and middle part of the last century. It was a disease that paralyzed the muscles […]
No Room for Hate As a GUSD parent and Glendale resident I’ve been upset to witness a small group of apparent anti-public school extremists causing chaos at GUSD school board meetings and directing persistent harassment campaigns against individual teachers, administrators and members of our LGBTQ+ community. On Thursday (Oct. 26) some of these same individuals, […]
Thirty young actors in grades three through six lit up the Lanterman Auditorium stage on Oct. 6 with the Assistance League of Flintridge’s ALFie Players production of “Frozen KIDS.” More than 400 community members, family and friends enthusiastically applauded, cheered and sang along with the live performance that included all the beloved characters and music […]
By Mary O’KEEFE On Sunday the Crescenta Valley High School robotics 589 Falkon team was joined by other robotic teams in a celebration of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). There were 37 booths on site – some represented local organizations but most represented STEM in one way or another. Elementary and middle school […]
According to reports, SAG-AFTRA negotiators have approved a tentative agreement that will end the longest actors strike against the film and TV studios in Hollywood The union said the 118-day strike would officially end at 12:01 a.m. on Thursday. The agreement goes to its members for approval on Friday.
The National Weather Service issued the following alert: A fire weather watch remains in effect from Wednesday, Nov.8 through Thursday afternoon, Nov. 9 for gusty Santa Ana winds and low relative humidity for wind-prone valleys in Los Angeles and Ventura counties as well as the Malibu coast. Winds North to northeast winds 15 to 30 […]
Operation Green Light for Veterans campaign is an annual opportunity for Los Angeles County residents to recognize the sacrifices of U.S. veterans and their family members by illuminating homes and public buildings in green from Nov. 6 – Nov. 12. The shining of a green light is intended to spark a national conversation to […]
from the Dept. of Justice: A Glendale man was sentenced on Oct. 30 to 78 months in federal prison for laundering at least $3 million in fraudulently obtained unemployment insurance (UI) benefits that his accomplices fraudulently obtained during the COVID-19 pandemic. Arman Nikogosyan, 45, was sentenced by United States District Judge John F. Walter, who […]