Car Chase Ends in La Cañada

By Mary O’KEEFE Two juveniles were arrested on Sunday after leading law enforcement on a car pursuit along the Foothill (210) Freeway ending on Foothill Boulevard in La Cañada Flintridge. At about 2:38 p.m. on Sunday, California Highway Patrol – Altadena Office was notified of a pursuit of a gray Nissan Altima reported as stolen. […]

LA County Updates Its COVID-19 Numbers

The Los Angeles County Dept. of Public Health (Public Health) continues seeing decreases and stabilizing of key indicators, including daily hospitalizations and deaths. There are 1,341 confirmed cases currently hospitalized and 33% of these people are confirmed cases in the ICU. In the last month, daily hospitalizations have decreased by 37%, from 2,219 in mid-July […]

Seniors Invited to ‘Senior Sunrise’

Seniors Invited to ‘Senior Sunrise’

By Mary O’KEEFE For the last few years some seniors at Crescenta Valley High School participated in Senior Sunrise. “Traditionally seniors would gather at the [track] and field on the Sunday before the first day of [senior] school starts,” said Adrienne Griffin, mom of a CVHS senior this school year. But due to COVID-19 and […]

SCE & GWP Issue Info Re: Rolling Outages

The City of Glendale and Southern California Edison (SCE) are preparing for extremely high temperatures for many days in a row with little cooling in the evening. Glendale Water & Power (GWP) is asking customers to continue to conserve as much electricity as possible through this week to reduce the demand on the electrical system […]

Glendale City Manager Yasmin Beers Announces Retirement

From the City of Glendale: City Manager Yasmin Beers announced her retirement after 33 years of dedicated service to the City of Glendale. She will retire effective October 2020. The Glendale City Council will consider a transition plan at a Council meeting in the near future. “This was not an easy decision for me, and […]

Collision in La Cañada Ends Pursuit

A spokesman with the California Highway Patrol has confirmed that a pursuit that started earlier this afternoon in Orange County ended after the suspect crashed the vehicle into another car at Oak Grove and Foothill Boulevard. The female driver was traveling westbound on the 210 Freeway. In Tujunga, she exited the freeway then traveled eastbound […]

LA Updates Its COVID-19 Numbers

The Los Angeles County Dept. of Public Health (Public Health) has confirmed 45 new deaths and 2,642 new cases of COVID-19. The number of new cases reported today are not known to include many backlog numbers from the state’s electronic lab report system (ELR), if any. They do, however, include delayed reporting of a few […]

High Temps Expected – GWP Reminds Customers to Conserve Energy

The National Weather Service has issued an Excessive Heat Warning for parts of Los Angeles County from today, Friday, Aug. 14 at 11 a.m. through Monday, Aug. 17 at 9 p.m. The California Independent System Operator has issued a statewide Flex Alert effective today, Friday, Aug. 14 from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. In response, […]

Going to ‘Town’

Going to ‘Town’

» Restaurant Spotlight By Charly SHELTON This week continues our series spotlighting hometown favorite restaurants adapting to the new normal of COVID-19 life. And it marks our first restaurant in the series to make use of the newly-created seating areas behind the massive K-rails along Honolulu Avenue through the al fresco Glendale program. However, expanded […]

Back to School … But Only To Get Books

Back to School … But Only To Get Books

By Mary O’KEEFE It was back-to-school book pickup this week for Crescenta Valley High School students who observed COVID-19 requirements of social distancing and the wearing of face coverings. “It’s going to be really weird,” said Christian Ovilla, an incoming sophomore, of how it will be to return to in-person class. Ovilla and fellow sophomore […]