About 30 community members gathered at the corner of Ocean View Boulevard and Honolulu Avenue on Saturday evening for the inaugural lighting of the menorah. Led by Rabbi Mendy Grossbaum of Chabad of the Crescenta Valley, the ceremony included traditional and non-traditional music. Assemblymember Nick Schultz also made an appearance. “This is the first time […]
On Dec. 20, the Burbank Police Dept. held an anonymous gun buyback event in the rear parking lot of the police/fire headquarters, which resulted in the collection of 165 firearms. The anonymous drive-through event gave community members the opportunity to relinquish unwanted guns without showing identification and with “no questions asked” in exchange for gift […]
On Saturday, Dec. 20 at about 1:21 a.m. California Highway Patrol (CHP) Altadena Area officers responded to a traffic crash with ambulance responding, which occurred on the eastbound Foothill Freeway (210), west of Lowell Avenue, within the city of Los Angeles. Preliminary investigation indicated a Nissan Pathfinder was traveling eastbound on the 210 and was […]
On Dec. 15 shortly after 7:30 p.m., Glendale police officers conducted a traffic stop in the 3000 block of Los Feliz Boulevard. The driver, who was the sole occupant of the vehicle, was found to have outstanding warrants and was subsequently placed under arrest. During a search of his vehicle, officers located items that were […]
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 […]