The Los Angeles County Dept. of Public Health (Public Health) has confirmed 132 new deaths and 2,072 new cases of COVID-19. To date, Public Health identified 1,187,474 positive cases of COVID-19 across all areas of LA County and a total of 21,102 deaths. There are 1,988 people with COVID-19 currently hospitalized and 30% of these […]
Taline Arsenian, president of the Glendale Teachers Assn., responded to the protest that took place outside the offices of the GTA on Wednesday morning. “I believe these parents and our teachers want the same thing, we both want to be in our classrooms with our students, but only when it is safe to do so. […]
The Importance of Connectivity Last month the State of California’s Health and Human Services Agency unveiled a carefully developed Master Plan for Aging (MPA) designed to support the needs of the growing demographic of older residents – aged 60 years and better – estimated to total 10.2 million persons by 2030. One targeted goal of […]
A large delivery truck that was apparently traveling southbound on Angeles Crest in the late morning/early afternoon on Wednesday hit something unconfirmed in the 1000 block of Foothill Boulevard. Emergency personnel are on scene. Eastbound traffic on Foothill is down to one lane just west of Chevy Chase; traffic is then being diverted onto Chevy […]
February 2021 Understanding the Federal Retail Pharmacy Program for COVID-19 Vaccination The Federal Retail Pharmacy Program for COVID-19 Vaccination is a collaboration between the federal government, states and territories, and 21 national pharmacy partners and independent pharmacy networks to increase access to COVID-19 vaccination across the United States. This program is one component of the […]
School Closures, the Real Issue Looking for a break from the dark winter of President Biden and the continuous fear mongering of the mainstream media, I decided to take a look at this week’s CV Weekly. Surely my trusted local town newspaper would have something relevant and interesting for me to read. But aghast – […]
Ensuring All Angelenos Get Access to the Vaccine Amidst the torrent of information about COVID-19 and the continued toll the virus has taken on our community and the entire nation, it is easy to lose sight of the miraculous, safe and astonishingly effective nature of the vaccines. Two vaccines have already been approved and tens […]
The 1971 Earthquake A reader reminded me that the 50th anniversary of the 1971 Sylmar Earthquake (sometimes called the San Fernando Earthquake) had come and gone a few days ago. I have written about it in the past, but a revisit is always appropriate. The fault that caused the quake was the Sierra Madre Fault, […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Glendale Unified School District (GUSD) continues to work on opening schools for in-person learning. Los Angeles County Public Health announced last week that COVID-19 cases as well as hospitalizations have declined enough to allow schools to reopen for in-person instruction. LA County Dept. of Public Health announced that the County’s adjusted case […]
By Brandon HENSLEY Preliminary stages of improvements along the Eagle Canyon Channel, including a recreational trail connection between Two Strike Park and La Crescenta Avenue, were presented at the Feb. 18 virtual meeting of the Crescenta Valley Town Council. Michelle O’Connor, who oversees trails planning for LA County, gave an overview of preliminary analyses that […]