By Charly SHELTON Last week saw the final community public forums at sites throughout the Glendale Unified School District regarding the upcoming redistricting of areas for school board voters. Until recently GUSD was an at-large district, meaning that anyone who lived within the district’s borders could vote for all five candidates on the GUSD board […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The Crescenta Valley Fire Safe Council treated the California Civilian Corps (CCC) to a picnic lunch at Two Strike Park for their help in clearing vegetation in vulnerable areas including Briggs Terrace, Sutton and Goss canyons. “It was a project to reduce the risk of fire with hazardous fuel reduction,” said J. […]
Investor or Loser? What a wonderful way to end a weekend! On Sunday, my son Matthew and I headed to Santa Anita Race Track for the annual Day at the Races that benefits the Crescenta Valley and Montrose-Verdugo City chambers of commerce and the CV Sheriff’s Support Group. So many familiar faces shared the day […]
“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves…” ~ John Muir, naturalist, author, environmental philosopher and preservationist Spring is here! We welcomed […]
Vineyard Workday Planned The StoneBarn Vineyard Conservancy will have a vineyard event at Deukmejian Wilderness Park on Saturday, April 2 from 8 a.m. to noon. The vines are bursting out all over, and need training on the trellising, a little leaf pruning, and some judicious weeding. This will also be the start of planting of […]
By Mary O’KEEFE or decades the Montrose Bakery was a community favorite for baked goods and breakfast, lunch and dinner. In addition to feeding the community the restaurant also hired many locals including college students. The bakery often supplied the cake for the Montrose Founder’s Day and donated to many organizations including Prom Plus. Then […]
By Charly SHELTON “Whereas April is widely recognized as the month of commemoration for global communities that have been affected by man’s inhumanity to man as they mourn the Armenian genocide, European Holocaust, Cambodian genocide, Rwandan genocide and the start of the Bosnian war, which led to the start of the Srebrenica genocide, whereas Glendale, […]
It was a fun afternoon of eclectic questions and even more eclectic answers when participants of the 28th Annual Smart-A-Thon 2016 exercised local knowledge while funding a community organization. The afternoon of brain teasing questions was all to benefit The Mary Pinola and Crescenta Valley Chamber Education Fund. Twenty-nine teams participated in the event. […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Recently there was a story on social media concerning a scam involving a fake kidnapping. The caller contacted the victim stating they had kidnapped her daughter, who is apparently screaming for help in the background. The victim is obviously distraught as the caller continued to threaten her daughter and demanding a ransom […]
A police helicopter made an emergency landing at Montrose Community Park on Saturday evening. “The cause of the emergency landing is under investigation,” according to Glendale Police Dept. spokeswoman Tahnee Lightfoot.