By Mary O’KEEFE On Thursday, Dec. 18 at about 2:08 p.m. the Los Angeles communication center – CHP received a call concerning a semi-truck on fire on the westbound Foothill (210) Freeway just east of La Tuna Canyon. It was determined there was a toilet being towed as cargo by the semi-truck. CHP is still […]
By Mary O’KEEFE A fatal accident that took two lives occurred on the Angeles Crest Highway on Sunday, Dec. 21. California Highway Patrol officers responded to a call concerning a vehicle versus a wall on the Angeles Crest Highway at mile marker 62.82 at 12:43 p.m. on Sunday, according to a CHP spokesman. “[LA County] […]
Dec. 19 3700 block of Via Serrano Avenue in La Cañada Flintridge, a man reported that he was checking a family member’s home (the family was out of town) and found the rear glass door had been shattered and rooms were ransacked. Items were reported stolen between 7:02 p.m. and 7:28 p.m. Dec. 17 Gould […]
Remember the fallen. Honor those who serve. Teach the next generation the value of freedom. By Ruth SOWBY On Saturday, Dec. 13, at Verdugo Hills of Peace Pioneer Cemetery in Tujunga, wreaths were placed on the graves of 51 who fell in service to the United States. The wreaths were placed by Wreaths Across America, which […]
By Julie BUTCHER On Tuesday night, the Glendale City Council once again took up a request by Councilmember Vartan Gharpetian “to agendize a discussion of the removal of certain city-owned parking lots from consideration in the City-Owned Residential Overlay (CORO) in the General Plan Land Use Element Update and Surplus Lands Act (SLA) approvals.” Mayor […]
By Mary O’KEEFE On Dec. 3 the City of Glendale released a statement regarding the departure of Glendale Police Chief Manny Cid. Cid, who has been the GPD chief since January 2023, has accepted the position of police chief with the Anaheim Police Dept. “I had not been looking,” Cid said in an interview with […]
By Mary O’KEEFE It has been a terrible week: the shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island, the mass shooting in Australia targeting Jewish people celebrating the first day of Hanukkah, the death of Rob and Michele Reiner allegedly at the hands of their younger son and then the news that FBI agents, working with […]
Real Versus Fake I know I could be talking about a variety of things (real versus fake) but in keeping in the season, I’m talking about Christmas trees. I’m a “real” girl. Ever since I could remember we had a real Christmas tree. It’s funny but all of these years later I can’t remember actually […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The Chabad of the Crescenta Valley hosted The Chanukah Festival 2025 at Memorial Park in La Cañada Flintridge on the first day of Chanukah, Dec. 14. About 300 people attended the festive event. It was held after the news spread of the mass shooting in Australia at Sydney’s Bondi Beach. There were […]
GWP Goes Coal Free Glendale Water & Power’s (GWP) Intermountain Power Project (IPP) agreement has transitioned to a 100% coal-free energy resource, currently operating on natural gas while preparing for future hydrogen use. The plant is located near Delta, Utah and operated under the supervision of Los Angeles Dept. of Water & Power. This change […]