By Jason KUROSU The Montrose Shopping Park Association’s meeting on Sept. 5 addressed plans for Montrose’s Centennial Celebration, a two-day event slated for the weekend of Feb. 23, 2013. Linda McMenamin, the MSPA’s promotional coordinator, discussed ideas that the Centennial Celebration Committee developed. These included a primarily Western-themed event, harking back to the original land […]
Reaching Out Despite Battles That Rage On On Tuesday night, the History Channel had continuous programs on the collapse of the World Trade Centers. The programs were pieced together from various archived sources and it was absolutely gut wrenching to watch. One of the shows chronicled from when the first plane hit until after the […]
By Natalie MAIER Community volunteer Steve Pierce can usually be found around town. He coordinates the monthly clean up of the La Crescenta Avenue off-ramp of the Foothill (210) Freeway, and is hard to miss in his bright “screaming yellow” vest. He facilitates filming in Montrose, a popular location for movie scouts. He is a […]
UPDATE Friday 2p.m.: From the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office: –Three reputed Rollin’ 40s Crips gang members were charged today with robbing a Canyon Country bank on Wednesday then leading police on a high-speed chase as they threw cash out the car’s window, the District Attorney’s Office announced. Phillip Ely, 29, Lavelle Mosley, 22,and […]
Assemblymember Anthony Portantino and City of Hope 6th Annual “HIV/AIDS Action Summit” California Assemblymember Anthony Portantino and City of Hope today brought together a wide range of experts and activists for the Sixth Annual HIV/AIDS Action Summit with special guest, Project Runway All-Star Mondo Guerra. More than 300 high school and college students as […]
By Mary O’KEEFE “[On Tuesday] our U.S. Diplomatic Post in Benghazi, Libya was attacked. Heavily armed militants assaulted the compound and set fire to our buildings,” said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today during a televised press conference. Four Americans were killed including Foreign Service Officer Sean Smith, a U.S. Air Force veteran, and […]
Parents are being reminded to speak to their children about Stranger Danger after a man reportedly exposed himself to a 16-year-old girl in the 4100 block of Ramsdell Avenue. The incident occurred on Sept. 6 at 3:45 p.m. when a teenager was waiting on Ramsdell Avenue for her mother. The teen reported that a man […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Firefighters at Glendale Fire Station 29 joined fellow firefighters and police officers throughout the country that took time early this morning to remember the attacks on American soil on Sept. 11, 2001. “On Sept. 11, 2001, 19 al Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial U.S. jetliners, deliberately crashing two of the planes into […]
Field inspectors with the South Coast Air Quality Management District are in the field today investigating possible causes of widespread sulfur odors. Since around midnight last night, AQMD has received more than 100 calls reporting a strong, foul rotten egg/sulfur odor. Residents have complained from a very wide area including the Inland Empire and much […]