By Mary O’KEEFE Dr. Scott Anderle has been announced as the new Rosemont Middle School principal. He will have some big shoes to fill with the retirement of Cynthia Livingston. Livingston has been with Glendale Unified School District for 28 years, with the last seven of them being at Rosemont Middle School. She brought her […]
By Mary O’KEEFE When Henry Ford introduced the combustion engine automobile in the early 1900s, there were those who didn’t think that it would ever replace the horse and buggy. When a person bought a new Ford in those early days, a lot of time was spent on repairs. In fact, if one wanted to […]
By Brian CHERNICK Glendale’s effort to build, nourish and retain better business relationships throughout the city took a major step last month with the announcement of an outreach program GRIT – the Glendale Relationship Initiation Team. Operating out of the city’s Economic Development Department, GRIT will work as a task force performing block-by-block outreach meetings […]
Projectionist Joe Renaudo will bring his vintage equipment to Two Strike Park to share films from the past. By Joanna KIM, intern With the digitalization of movies and videos in the modern age, silent films of the 1920s and ’30s are often forgotten. Joe Rinaudo, a local silent cinema historian and founder of […]
By Julie BUTCHER The Outdoor Lighting Community Survey went out in the mail to Los Angeles County residents of La Crescenta-Montrose on Monday, July 17. Owners of each property should be receiving the survey from the County Dept. of Regional Planning to assess whether the current regulations for outdoor residential lighting are acceptable or if […]
By Mary O’KEEFE At Tuesday’s Glendale Unified School District board meeting, two parents asked the board to take another look at the permits that had been rejected from Franklin Elementary School, a magnet school. They spoke of when they first arrived at Franklin and had signed an agreement to stay through sixth grade, something both […]
July 15 500 block of Foothill Boulevard in La Cañada, a safe and cash were stolen from a business. A door appeared to be pried open with a blunt object. The theft occurred overnight. July 14 500 block of Freeman Avenue in La Crescenta, a wallet with personal information, keys, radar detector, dashboard camera, […]
“If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.” ~ Mark Twain As August approaches, it’s clear that this summer is a hot one. Last week I began writing about summer weather and swimming pools. The allotted column space was […]
Mind Over Matter – It Matters The church that I attend is rather large. It has four services every Sunday, plus it oversees a satellite campus in Pasadena. Consequently, it’s hard for attendees to know each other – there are just too many people. There have been various attempts at creating more familiarity within […]
By Charly SHELTON n the heat of summer 1915, the citizens of the newly-formed town of Montrose came together to honor the man who put their town on the map. Robert Walton was a real estate agent who, along with his partner J. Frank Walters, co-founded Montrose and the nearby town of Oakdale, which sat […]