New Book – ‘Crescenta Valley’s Dirty Laundry: Gossip, Crime and Tragedy’ Gary Keyes and I have produced yet another local history book guaranteed to lower your property values. In the past, Gary and I have written two other books on our local “bad history:” “Wicked Crescenta Valley” detailed various crimes and cons, and the chilling […]
Is Ralphs Market Haunted? I’ve been hearing ghost stories from former employees of Ralphs Supermarket in La Crescenta. The stories are always from former employees as there seems to be a hesitancy by current employees to talk, worried perhaps by blowback from corporate. With that in mind, I’ll keep the stories anonymous. A little background […]
Health Care is a Civil Right The Fair Housing Act protects people from discrimination when they [seek to] buy a home. The Equal Employment Opportunity Act protects against discrimination when people seek employment. The Equal Educational Opportunities Act protects students from discrimination at school. But there has yet to be a civil rights law that […]
Urges Unity to Fight Perceived Misinformation I’m a GUSD parent concerned that our district, like many others, has recently been the site of attempts to suppress and censor free speech and accurate teaching of history. Under the guise of the well-documented manufactured “anti-CRT” panic, we’ve seen misinformation spread by non-district parents in public comment, later […]
CV’s Civil War Veterans Who Weren’t Veterans At All Last week we looked at four CV pioneers who had fought in the Civil War. This week we’ll look at two prominent CV pioneers who didn’t fight in the Civil War … though local legend claims they were veterans. Either they were mistakenly thought of as […]
Legislative Update Just over a week ago, Gov. Newsom put his signature on the last piece of legislation for the year, having officially signed or vetoed hundreds of bills sent from our latest legislative session. I’m happy to report that, despite many pandemic-related challenges, I had nine pieces of legislation signed into law. These measures […]
Celebrating – and Planning – All Rockhaven Can Be How exciting it is that the leaders of the State of California have recognized the significance of Rockhaven Historic District and are contributing to the opening of the park we bought so many years ago! Thank you so much for recently getting an assessment done on […]
The Road To Communism Pro-vaccination zealots praise businesses for firing employees who refuse to get the shot. Yet, when a business refuses to bake a cake, these same zealots will resort to anything in order to drive that business out of business. A business has the right to fire anyone if it deems it is […]
CV Pioneers Who Were Civil War Veterans Once again, I turn to the stellar research done by local historian Jo Anne Sadler, who has written extensively about the 19th century pioneers of CV. She compiled histories of our pioneers who fought in the Civil War and from her work this is written. While there were […]
It is October and fall is in full swing. Kids are getting the hang of in-person learning again and parents are feeling a little more comfortable being at home. First and foremost, the CV Town Council wants to acknowledge our 2020 Crescenta Valley High School seniors, the recipients of the CVTC scholarships that will be […]