The Glendale Youth Alliance (GYA), which serves youth from Glendale, Burbank, La Crescenta and La Cañada, has embarked on the 2015-16 Employer Incentive Program and is now accepting applications for both employees and employers. To qualify, applicants must be between the ages of 18 to 24, not enrolled in school at the time of enrollment […]
The Glendale Police Dept. Traffic Unit conducted a DUI/driver’s license checkpoint on Saturday, Aug. 22 at Brand Boulevard and Cerritos Avenue between the hours of 7 p.m. and 1 a.m. Checkpoints are placed in locations that have the greatest opportunity for achieving drunk and drugged driving deterrence and provide the greatest safety for officers and […]
The Glendale police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a suspect who stole items from the CVS pharmacy in Montrose. On Aug. 12 at 11:50 p.m., a suspect entered the CVS pharmacy in the 2000 block of Verdugo Boulevard. The suspect carried a reusable shopping bag that he filled with packages of razors. […]
On Aug. 20, at about 1:55 p.m., a Glendale police officer saw a car traveling northbound on Pennsylvania Avenue; its passenger side headlight did not function. As the officer made a U-turn, the car quickly turned left into a driveway in the 4400 block of Pennsylvania Avenue. The officer located the car at the end […]
By Charly SHELTON Some smart televisions can be controlled by voice. Tell it to find a channel or open Netflix, and it will respond. But what if your TV never stops listening? This is the impetus behind AB1116, a bill from Assemblyman Mike Gatto, representative in the California State Assembly for the Crescenta Valley area, […]
By Charly SHELTON “Great droughts, I always say, end in great floods.” So says Bill Patzert, climatologist with JPL who sees the coming storm. Not in a figurative sense, but literally – there will be a lot of storms this winter in the Los Angeles area courtesy of the coming El Niño. “Everybody has forgotten […]
By Jason KUROSU The Scholl Canyon Landfill will have part of its irrigation system replaced after the Glendale City Council recently approved a slope repair project for the inactive portion of the landfill. The city council approved the Scholl Canyon slope repair project at its Tuesday night meeting, which will see the replacement of an […]
By Samantha SLAYBACK The CV Town Council is gearing up for its eighth annual pancake breakfast to be held Saturday, Sept. 19. Similar to past years, the tasty event will take place from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. in the Crescenta Valley High School quad. This year the event will be co-chaired by CVTC members […]
By Brandon HENSLEY The L.A. County Planning Commission granted Options for Youth a Conditional Use Permit on Wednesday for a property near the Rosemont Avenue and Foothill Boulevard intersection. This comes on the heels of the Crescenta Valley Town Council having unanimously voted to deny a CUP application for the charter school at its Aug. […]
On Tuesday, Gov. Jerry Brown and Assemblyman Mike Gatto announced the participating agencies of the California Innovation Award, established by Gatto’s AB 2138 in 2014, which awards a prize of up to $25,000 for Californians who provide intellectual property that solves a specific problem, innovates a process, or streamlines a system within a government agency. […]