By Mary O’KEEFE The holidays are upon us and that means we are inundated with advertisements on our phones, computers and televisions of “buy this/big sales.” That is part of what the holidays have become over the years and we have all gotten used to it; but imagine that you are a parent who can’t […]
CV Weekly Holiday Office Hours The offices of CV Weekly will be closed on Thursday, Nov. 28 and Friday, Nov. 29 in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. CCLCF Thanksgiving Day 5K Run/Walk The Community Center of La Cañada Flintridge’s Thanksgiving Day 5K Run/Walk returns today, Thursday, Nov. 28. The professionally timed race, now in its […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Crescenta Valley Town Council held its last meeting of 2024 on Thursday, Nov. 21. The newly elected Council members will be administered the oath of office in January 2025. When the election was held in early November there were six seats open – three regular positions and three alternate positions. Only three […]
After several days of investigative work, Glendale Police Homicide detectives have identified and arrested Vahe Gyurjinyan, 18, as the primary suspect responsible for the stabbing of three men on Nov. 17 in the City of Glendale. Glendale police officers had responded to reports of multiple stabbings in the area of San Rafael Avenue and Dryden […]
Glendale Community College (GCC), in collaboration with the San Gabriel Band of Mission Indians Gabrieleño/Tongva, presented the college’s land acknowledgment in a ceremony held on Nov. 14 in the college’s Student Center and outside the college’s Tongva Building at the Verdugo campus. An introduction and speakers including representatives of the San Gabriel Band of Mission […]
Rosemont Middle School students plant a tree that has roots that extend to the stars. By Mary O’KEEFE Rosemont Middle School science students gathered around a small tree on Monday. School custodians had dug a hole where the tree was going to be planted. The students were all smiles and excited when two girls […]
By Julie BUTCHER At the beginning of Tuesday night’s meeting, the Glendale City Council adopted a proclamation recognizing Saturday, Nov. 30 as Small Business Saturday and urged Glendale residents to shop locally at small businesses, particularly on that day. “Sixty cents of every dollar spent at a small business goes back into the local community,” […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The Friends of Rockhaven and the City of Glendale have entered into an agreement regarding Rockhaven Sanitarium. This will end a lawsuit that was filed over a year ago, in April 2023, by Friends of Rockhaven, the non-profit organization formed to help support and protect the Rockhaven Sanitarium site. Members of Friends […]
New Places, New Friends One thing about Crescenta Valley residents – we know that not everything is available to us here in town. For example, I have to call elsewhere to get a 3-yard bin to start cleaning out my garage (ugh – don’t even get me started on that chore!). We’ll travel for major […]
By Mary O’KEEFE In the circles in which I travel there is a lot of concern about what the future for climate change research holds and as a mom and a grandma I share in this concern. But then I remember one of my favorite quotes from one of my favorite movies. It is […]