GPD Reports

Three Males Arrested with Two Loaded Firearms and Narcotics  On Nov. 6 at approximately 8:30 p.m., officers assigned to Glendale PD’s Patrol Bureau responded to a car dealership on the 400 block of South Brand Boulevard regarding a fraudulent purchase in progress. Officers contacted 34-year-old Danny Garibay who was in the parking lot of the […]

Forum Advocates Physical Fitness for Your Brain’s Sake

By Justin HAGER USC Verdugo Hills Hospital held its sixth annual Brain Health Forum this week. Featuring a variety of experts from both the physical and cognitive sciences, the forum focused on how an aging population can protect itself from cognitive decline. The subject is increasingly important in the United States where the percentage of […]

Tree Management, Vegetation Removal Part of SCE Program

Tree Management, Vegetation Removal Part of SCE Program

  By Mary O’KEEFE Local residents are once again seeing Southern California Edison’s contracted tree service companies throughout the area trimming and, in some cases, completely taking down trees. “SCE conducts annual inspections of trees and vegetation near [power] lines,” explained Reggie Kumar, SCE spokesman. Since wildfires are a growing threat throughout California, abatement and […]

Weather Forecasting Game Changers

Two instruments launching to the International Space Station in a few weeks could be weather forecasting game changers. The two novel instruments are expected to demonstrate that, while they are much smaller, much lighter and much less expensive than weather satellites orbiting today, they can collect some of the same essential data. The main purpose […]

Montrose Search and Rescue Looking for New Members

Montrose Search and Rescue Looking for New Members

By Bethany BROWN For the first time in its history, Montrose Search and Rescue is holding a recruiting event. The Montrose Search and Rescue team will hold team tryouts for the first time on Saturday, Nov. 13 at Deukmejian Wilderness Park, 3429 Markridge Road. Applicants will be tested on a timed two-mile uphill hike with […]

Roof Repair Coming to Rockhaven

By Julie BUTCHER The Glendale City Council met Tuesday night and most of Tuesday afternoon in a joint session with the city’s Housing Authority to take steps to move forward the development of two senior housing projects on city-owned property. At the beginning of the evening meeting, Councilmember Dan Brotman raised concerns about a recent […]

More than Just an Airshow – American Heroes Returns to Hansen Dam

More than Just an Airshow – American Heroes Returns to Hansen Dam

By Justin HAGER After a one-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the American Heroes Airshow is scheduled to land at the Hansen Dam Sports Complex on Saturday, Nov. 13. The free event features nearly 20 helicopters that are sure to inspire awe and inspiration in aviation enthusiasts as well as demonstrations, display aircraft, first […]

From the Desk of the Publisher <<< Robin Goldsworthy

Things are Getting Back to Normal … or Are Things Getting Back to Normal? Contrary to last year, this year’s Halloween celebration seemed much closer to “normal.” Though the Spooktacular event in Montrose was absent, plenty of folks took time to decorate the exterior of their houses, pleasing passersby. Keeping COVID safety in mind, 413 […]

Weather in the Foothills <<< Sue Kilpatrick

By forces seemingly antagonistic and destructive Nature accomplishes her beneficent designs now a flood of fire, now a flood of ice, now a flood of water; and again in the fullness of time an outburst of organic life.    ~ John Muir   The skies are a color of blue in which only autumn presents. Daytime […]

In brief

Annual Shredding Day Shredding Day, when one can destroy financial documents and other personal papers professionally and securely while watching, will be held Saturday, Nov. 6 from 9 a.m. to noon in the parking lot behind Grandview Presbyterian Church, 1130 Ruberta Ave. (between Glenoaks and Fifth Street). The shredding truck has a TV camera that […]