Questions About Today’s Real Estate? Ask Phyllis!

Online Real Estate Sites Can Be Misleading Dear Phyllis, I love reading your real estate answers. I want to relay a recent experience for the education of your readers and perhaps you can add some clarity. My wife and I own our home and saw an interesting fixer get listed. We didn’t want to bother […]

Letters to the Editor

Not a Bright Outlook In the Aug. 12 issue in the Leisure section, page 14, the “then and now” feature highlighted the oldest house in Montrose. [What happened to it] sizes up all that’s wrong in not only this city but all over: the dissolving of R1 zones. A total lack of concern or respect […]

Players Turn Out for Vets’ Bingo

Players Turn Out for Vets’ Bingo

By Robin GOLDSWORTHY American Legion Post 288 and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1614 held a bingo game on Aug. 20 that benefited both posts. About 110 bingo players came out for the games, with each game promising a minimum of $100 in prize money. In addition to the 10 games, players could bid on […]

Spiritually Speaking

Question: We have a 4-year-old daughter who just started Sunday school. Before that, she was in the church nursery. She overheard her Sunday school teachers talking about a congregant who passed away. She asked them what happens when people pass away. She was told they go to heaven. She told us she was asking questions […]

Notes & Nods

This Week at LCIF Lutheran Church in the Foothills invites the community to worship in the church’s Worship Center. On Sunday, Sept. 5 at 10 a.m. Pastor Scott Peterson will lead worship with a message from his sermon series on “Right-eousness” titled “Making It Right.” The service will also be live-streamed at 10 a.m. on […]

Montrose-Verdugo City Chamber of Commerce <<< Mavil Aghadjanian

Montrose-Verdugo City Chamber of Commerce <<< Mavil Aghadjanian

Let’s Make This a September to Remember This September hosts a lot of in-person firsts for us at the Montrose-Verdugo City Chamber of Commerce. We will be hosting our first in-person ribbon cutting ceremony and first in-person mixer in more than a year! Everyone is invited to help us celebrate both events (see details below) […]

CRESCENTA VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE <<< Steve Pierce

CRESCENTA VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE <<< Steve Pierce

“OUR BUSINESS IS YOUR BUSINESS”  We’ve Been Busy … and There’s More to Come! Several months ago, smack in the middle of business and event closures, the Crescenta Valley Chamber of Commerce made the decision to “roll the dice” and proceed with scheduling our Chamber activities. While there was always the possibility of last minute […]

Glendale Memorial Hospital Dedicates S. H. Ho Plaza

Glendale Memorial Hospital Dedicates S. H. Ho Plaza

Dignity Health – Glendale Memorial Hospital and Health Center (GMHHC) unveiled the S. H. Ho Plaza, the main corridor along Laurel Avenue in front of the hospital, in honor of the S. H. Ho Foundation and its generous gift of $2.5 million. “GMHHC has truly changed and improved its care for the community because of […]

Treasures of the Valley <<< Mike Lawler

Historical ‘Asian Hate’ in the Foothills The phenomenon of “Asian hate,” or prejudice against Americans of Asian descent, has unfortunately been in the news lately. Locally, Korean Americans are a huge part of our community and I’m sure that some of them could point to incidents that have happened to them recently. Looking at the […]

Ugly Start to Season for Falcons

Ugly Start to Season for Falcons

corrected Sept. 3. Corrections in bold.   By Brandon HENSLEY There were signs hung along the rails on the Crescenta Valley fans’ side to welcome back the football team. Excitement, at least for the first couple of minutes, was in the air for the first game of the 2021 season against Newbury Park on Aug. […]