By Mary O’KEEFE With all the talk about American patriotism and immigrants there is one man in La Crescenta who has never, ever taken his path to citizenship for granted – Vito Cannella. Cannella immigrated from Italy in 1953 and in 1958 he opened Vito’s Barber Shop in Montrose. Cannella also served as the postmaster […]
By Charly SHELTON The ShakeAlert Earthquake Early Warning System has been stricken from the federal budget for the coming 2018 fiscal year. Despite a request for $16.1 million annually for maintenance and operations reaching the White House in December of last year, the budget has come back without funding for the system, leaving the nearly […]
June 1 1000 block of Foothill Boulevard in La Cañada, an employee at 7-Eleven realized there was a discrepancy with the sales and inventory of lottery tickets. He reviewed the surveillance footage and discovered that two suspects entered the store, acknowledged the employee behind the counter and, while the employee’s view was obstructed, one of […]
CicLAvia Announces New Route The 21st CicLAvia event launches its second event of the 2017 season with a new route that will travel for three miles from Atwater Village into the heart of downtown Glendale on June 11. Called CicLAvia – Glendale Meets Atwater Village Presented by Metro, the event will mark the first time […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Local television news stations have reported on the “beast of La Crescenta,” as coined by one station. The blurry video image of the beast appears to be a chimpanzee swinging from branch-to-branch in the brush and trees near the Lowell Avenue entrance/exit of the Foothill (210) Freeway and the Crescenta Valley YMCA. […]
By Brian CHERNICK The City of Glendale reached an agreement for a $1.1 million settlement with consulting firm Willdan Financial Services, three years after the city filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit that claimed the city lost revenue due to faulty methods in a water-rate study conducted by the firm in 2011. “We are extremely satisfied with […]
The Summer Beach Bus returns on June 13. The bus is sponsored by the County of Los Angeles and City of La Cañada Flintridge. The bus travels to Santa Monica from local pick up points on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Labor Day. Pick up from Two Strike Park (5107 Rosemont Ave.) is 9:15 a.m.; […]
By Brian CHERNICK Glendale’s successful efforts to strengthen the city’s youth community through after-school sports programs was recognized with the Henry Reining Outstanding Organization Award last month by the American Society for Public Administration. One Glendale is part of the city’s Parks and Open Space Foundation – a non-profit organization that supports “open space activities […]
By Nicole MOORE On Thursday’s morning meeting of the Montrose Shopping Park Assn. talk turned to discussing ways to improve the shopping village. Jackie Barlow, Economic Development coordinator for the City of Glendale, reviewed the possibility of developers being interested in the City Bank site in the 2400 block of Honolulu Avenue. She also mentioned […]