Celebrating Small Businesses This week is National Small Business Week. This was pointed out by our insurance provider, The Hartford, which sent a note of congratulations and thanks to the CV Weekly. After all, small businesses are the “heartbeat of our communities and the backbone of our economy.” I couldn’t agree more. My small […]
By Mary O’KEEFE “The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it’s a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of […]
By Mary O’KEEFE It was a typical Wednesday afternoon last week for Artur Poghosyan. He went to work at his office on the corner of Honolulu and La Crescenta avenues then, around noon, headed out for lunch. During his walk back to his office his day turned anything but typical. “It happened very fast,” Poghosyan […]
By Julian MITCHELL The Crescenta Valley Water District is again considering raising its usage rates. The CVWD will hold a public hearing on June 11 at the CVWD boardroom at 2700 Foothill Blvd., La Crescenta to present its case and hear responses by the public. If the board feels that enough of the public has […]
The Glendale Police Dept. arrested Sergio Castillo, 27, of Los Angeles for residential burglary. On April 13 at 3:44 p.m., Glendale officers responded to the 1700 block of Hillside Drive regarding a male, later identified as Sergio Castillo, 27, of Los Angeles, who made entry into the home. The investigation revealed children at the residence […]
By Julie BUTCHER This week’s meeting of the Glendale City Council concluded late into the night with the approval of a controversial boutique hotel proposed in the Riverside Rancho neighborhood, contingent on the addition of two feet to the alley adjacent to the property. The project has engendered strong opposition from the neighbors who live […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Montrose is getting closer to having two new restaurants soon … hopefully. The former site of Rocky Cola in the 2200 block of Honolulu Avenue has been vacant since the diner closed in 2012. In 2017, the space was acquired by restaurateur Tom Christopoulos who announced he would open the restaurant as […]
After the rains, fire fuels abound and residents need to reduce brush and dead vegetation from their houses. By Mary O’KEEFE From Jan. 1 to Dec. 30, 2018 there were 6,284 wildfires across California that destroyed a total of 876,147 acres. The combined CAL FIRE and U.S. Forest Service area had 7,571 fires that destroyed […]
May 4 Angeles Crest Highway at mile marker 62 in the Angeles National Forest, the rear passenger window was smashed and several items were stolen from a vehicle between midnight and 10 a.m. Switzer Falls Trail, Angeles Crest Highway at mile marker 34.2 in the Angeles National Forest, the rear passenger window was shattered […]
By Charly SHELTON The T-1000 is the evil liquid metal robot from “The Terminator” films that is so human-like that it is nearly indistinguishable from real people. Cylons are the human-like robots that invade the human factions in “Battlestar Gallactica.” Replicants are engineered non-humans poised to take control in “Bladerunner.” The recurring theme in all […]