Early College Academy (ECA) for Local Students

Beginning with the 2019-20 school year, Glendale Community College and Glendale Unified School District are partnering to offer Early College Academy (ECA). Students who participate in the ECA can complete up to two years of college for free before graduating from high school. College courses will be available to students in ECA beginning in 10th […]

Amazon Package Theft from Delivery Truck Leads to Three Arrests

The Glendale Police Dept. arrested three males involved in a theft of Amazon packages from a delivery truck in the City of Glendale. On Sunday, Feb. 17 at 12:33 p.m., Glendale officers were dispatched to the 200 block of West Loraine Street regarding an Amazon delivery driver that saw two males enter her van and […]

Crime Prevention, Police Procedures Outlined at Neighborhood Watch Meeting

By Mary O’KEEFE Last week the Glendale Police Dept. held an informative meeting for Neighborhood Watch leaders and those interested in the program. Presenting the program was Officer Matt Zakarian. Zakarian is well known in the Crescenta Valley area for his work within the community, including as a founding member of the CV Drug and […]

A Night of Music, Dance … and Chocolate

A Night of Music, Dance … and Chocolate

By Lori BODNAR, intern Nearly 200 folks came out to dance, eat chocolate and enjoy live music at the Crescenta Valley High School Jazz Night in the Café on Feb. 8. The award-winning CVHS jazz band, under the direction of Mathew Schick, performed for the crowd. Schick is also the director of the music program […]

In Brief

CVTC Meets Tonight The general meeting of the CV Town Council is tonight, Thursday, Feb. 21 at 7 p.m. at the community room of the La Crescenta Library, 2809 Foothill Blvd. At this month’s Town Council meeting will be a presentation from Clean Power Alliance, a new electricity supply provider that offers clean, renewable energy […]

Weather in the Foothills

“Nature … is, as it were, a continual circulation. Water is rais’d in Vapour into the Air by one Quality and precipitated down in drops by another, the Rivers run into the Sea, and the Sea again supplies them.” ~ Robert Hooke, English physicist, “Lectures and Discourses of Earthquakes” (1668) Sunday before sunset a complete […]

From the Desk of the Publisher

Where to Give   When I was a kid, my mother would call the St. Vincent de Paul society to arrange for pick-up of various items she was donating – clothing mainly but I think books, toys and other household goods were also picked up. I followed suit; after Steve and I were married I […]

An Opportunity to Say Goodbye

An Opportunity to Say Goodbye

  Bidding goodbye to the little rover that did much more than expected. By Charly SHELTON In June 2018, a record-setting dust storm blanketed all of Mars, obscuring almost all light coming from the summer sun. In Perseverance Valley, a small rover took in its last drink of sunlight power through its solar arrays and […]

Glendale Passes Right-To-Lease Measure

Please see correction in bold. By Julie BUTCHER After months of debate and deliberation, on Tuesday night the Glendale City Council passed a Right-to-Lease measure to replace the rent freeze implemented in December, a compromise aimed at protecting tenants against unchecked exorbitant rent hikes while respecting the rights and interests of the City’s landlords. “This […]

Friends of Rockhaven Delivered Tough Blow

Friends of Rockhaven Delivered Tough Blow

By Mary O’KEEFE In the saga of the future of Rockhaven Sanitarium there comes another twist: Gangi Design LED Build is now out of the project. Glendale City Council made the decision during closed session. The story of Rockhaven began in the early 1920s when a psychiatric nurse – Agnes Richards – wanted to help […]