By Charly SHELTON On May 4, the annual Taste of Downtown Glendale was held to much acclaim. For the 15th consecutive year, Glendale Healthy Kids organized and hosted the tasting festival, inviting 30 restaurants out onto the sidewalk to distribute sample size portions in an all-you-can-eat night. The event raised funds for Glendale Healthy […]
By Mary O’KEEFE There have been some famous people who have lived in Glendale, most notably John Wayne who attended Wilson Middle School and Glendale High School. But in a quiet area of far north Glendale, on Honolulu Avenue behind iron gates, a type of small revolution began that resulted in changes in the ways […]
By Mary O’KEEFE On Saturday, a group of strong girls of today honored a strong woman of the past by planting a garden at Rockhaven. The girls of Girl Scout Troop 2691 from La Crescenta knew they wanted to do some type of gardening for their community project but the question was what to do. […]
By Charly SHELTON At its recent meeting, in addition to choosing a trustee area map, the Glendale Unified School District Board of Education released the long-awaited calendar committee findings. Since the beginning of the school year, concerned parents of the district have spoken at Board of Education meetings, started a massively popular petition with over […]
By Charly SHELTON Montrose Shopping Park, after nearly three years of working with the City of Glendale, finally has new trash cans. The weeks’ long process of slowly rotating in a few trash cans at a time into their new locations is complete so now the cans around Montrose are the updated ones, which will […]
The Annual Amgen Tour of California will pass through the City of La Cañada Flintridge on May 16. The Amgen race, modeled after the Tour de France, is an eight-day professional bicycle race through the state of California. One of the first stages of the course runs through the City. On May 16, the Amgen […]
On May 19 at 7 p.m., the City of La Cañada Flintridge will host a Public Safety Forum focusing on cyber crime and phone scams. The event will be held at City Hall in council chambers and is open to the public. With the rise of the internet, more criminals are exploiting individuals online. Threats […]
In July, six La Cañada Flintridge youth will travel to Washington, D.C. to represent the community at the 60th Annual Conference of the Sister Cities International Youth Leadership Summit. Sister Cities International was started during the Eisenhower Administration to encourage citizen diplomacy by forging bonds between people from different cultures around the world. The Youth […]
In the Crescenta Valley, two local independent bookstores held special events that drew people into their shops for a variety of reasons. By Charly SHELTON In honor of National Independent Bookstore Day on Saturday, local bookstores Once Upon A Time and Flintridge Bookstore and Coffeehouse opened their doors to invite the community in for some […]
By Dylan SYLVESTER A belly or two might still be full after Sunday when the community came together to take part in the 10th annual Taste of Montrose, hosted by Prom Plus, and some of the day of activities presented by the Montrose Shopping Park Assn. During Taste of Montrose, supporters (most hungry) paid $20 […]