By Mary O’KEEFE Montrose Shopping Park is looking more like a California-friendly garden thanks to the City of Glendale Community Services and Parks. At the July 2 meeting the Montrose Shopping Park Association, members voiced their concern about the barren look of Honolulu Avenue and Ocean View Boulevard. Community Services and Parks had taken out […]
CVCA Meeting The Crescenta Valley Community Association will meet tonight, Thursday, Aug. 27 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the La Crescenta Library Community Room, 2809 Foothill Blvd. in La Crescenta. The public is invited to join in the discussion of local land use issues. Light refreshments. For more information, contact Sharon Weisman at […]
“By forces seemingly antagonistic and destructive, Nature accomplishes her beneficent designs. Now a flood of fire, now a flood of ice, now a flood of water; and again in the fullness of time an outburst of organic life.” – John Muir The words of Muir give nature a spiritual dimension. As meaningful and descriptive as […]
August 24 4400 block of Sharon Avenue in La Crescenta, a Global Positioning System, digital tire pressure gauge and USB car charger were stolen from a vehicle between Aug. 22-24. August 20 4800 Castle Road in La Cañada, a resident reported that she drove up to her home and noticed a white hatchback vehicle parked […]
Burned but not Burned Out Saturday was an amazing day. Along with Mary O’Keefe, her daughters Molly and Jessy and my husband Steve and our sons Matthew and Danny, I was at Huntington Beach for the second of three Life Rolls On – They Will Surf Again events being held in SoCal this year (the […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Last weekend over 400 people enjoyed outdoor movie experiences at the Montrose Sixth Annual Film Festival. The outdoor movies were shown in the parking lot of Andersen’s Pet Shop in the 2200 block of Honolulu Avenue, a throwback to Montrose’s past. The Montrose Theater burned down in the 1987; the charred utility […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The National Charity League, Glendale Chapter has begun plans to return the Twelve Oaks property to an assisted living facility. “Twelve Oaks Foundation has moved in a resident caretaker to oversee the property,” said Paris Cohen, chair of the Twelve Oaks Defense Committee. “The Foundation also has begun assessment and evaluation of […]
By Jason KUROSU One of Glendale’s recent capital improvement projects garnered the city award recognition from a national civil engineering group this month. The Glendale Avenue Wastewater Capacity and Street Improvements Project replaced 2,000 feet of sewer mains along Glendale Avenue, patched up cracked sidewalks and road pavement, upgraded seven traffic signals, installed eight flashing […]
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 […]