By Lori BODNAR, intern When thinking of a tailgate party, what comes to the minds of many people are food and fun in the parking lot before a sporting event. But on Saturday, Glendale Water and Power (GWP) hosted a tailgate event at the Perkins & Parcher Plazas in Glendale that was much more than […]
A Note of Thanks Today, June 6, 2019, is the 75th anniversary of D-Day when Allied troops stormed the beaches at Normandy, turning the tide of World War II. I did a little research and discovered that the actual name of the exercise was Operation Overlord, code name D-Day. Tens of thousands of soldiers from […]
“And since all this loveliness can not be Heaven, I know in my heart it is June.” – Abba Goold Woolson, 19th-century American writer and lecturer This is it! Things are heating up and I think we are now in for the long haul. There’s no turning back now. The first day of June was […]
By Julian MITCHELL The Los Angeles City Planning Commission met Thursday morning and voted to approve the housing project on the property that was the former site of the Verdugo Hills Golf Course, located at the intersection of La Tuna Canyon and Tujunga Canyon/Honolulu Avenue. The Commission was met with nearly 80 opponents to the […]
Two men dubbed the “Cowboy Gun Bandits” by the FBI for using a large-caliber revolver during a series of robberies that targeted gas station convenience stores and a bank have been to serve federal prison sentences of at least 35 years. Dominic Dorsey, 51, of Hollywood was sentenced late Friday by United States District Judge […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Some elderly residents of the Honolulu Manor Senior Apartments at 2500 Honolulu Ave. have been unable to leave their apartments for about a week since the second elevator in their apartment complex stopped working. One of the elevators has not worked for several months, according to a resident who added that, because […]
Former Jet Propulsion Laboratory director Edward Stone – currently the David Morrisroe professor of physics at Caltech and the project scientist for NASA’s Voyager mission for the past 47 years – has been awarded the prestigious Shaw Prize in Astronomy “for his leadership in the Voyager project, which has, over the past four decades, transformed […]
Teaching the importance of news gathering and presenting was behind this Boy Scout’s Eagle project. By Mary O’KEEFE Community news at its foundation covers issues that are of interest to the neighbors it serves, it helps to give voice to their concerns and bring those stories to light in a factual way. This is a […]
May 25 2100 block of Crescent Avenue in La Crescenta, an unlocked vehicle was ransacked overnight. May 23 1800 block of Foothill Boulevard in La Cañada, the front passenger side window was shattered and personal items were stolen from a vehicle between 5:50 p.m. and 6:20 p.m. 1900 block of Foothill Boulevard in […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Captain Todd Deeds is getting accustomed to his new position as the head of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Dept.-Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s Station. He began his new job on Sunday and made the rounds at the local Memorial Day and Fiesta Days events, but isn’t unfamiliar with the area. “I used to […]