The Los Angeles County board of supervisors at its Tuesday meeting approved a skate park for Crescenta Valley Park. The skate park is a project that was started by local skaters and led by Cooper Iven, who began the project when he was a junior at Crescenta Valley High School. Iven has since graduated from […]
Cresecenta Valley Station Detectives are investigating an animal poisoning incident that occurred on the 4100 Block of Hampstead Road in the city of La Canada Flintridge on August 25, 2013. The victim’s dog ingested a meatball containing strychnine. There has been one other documented incident of animal poisoning on the 4100 Block of Hampstead Road […]
Gen. Eugene Tattini, who has served for the past 12 years as deputy director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., will begin his retirement on Sept. 20. His successor, U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Larry D. James, will assume his duties on Sept. 23. The deputy director functions as JPL’s chief operating officer […]
OCDA TO OPPOSE PAROLE OF INMATE WHO MURDERED 17-YEAR-OLD STUDENT AS SHE SLEPT ON PROM NIGHT IN 1991 Below is a statement released by OCDA: The Orange County District Attorney’s Office (OCDA) is opposing the parole of a man who shot and murdered a 17-year-old high school student on prom night while she was sleeping […]
By Mary O’KEEFE At about 10 a.m. Sunday morning Glendale police responded to a call to assist California HIghway Patrol concerning an 11-year-old boy that was alone on the southbound Glendale (2) freeway near the 2 and Foothill (210) freeway interchange, said Lt. Ian Grimes. The call came from a motorist who observed the child […]
By Mary O’KEEFE At 8 p.m. on Saturday, Glendale Police Department responded to the 3400 block of Markridge Road concerning a call from residents reporting a bear in the neighborhood going through trash and entering residents’ backyards. GPD helicopter and patrol units responded to the Markridge Road and Frederick Avenue area, west of Deukmejian Wilderness […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Fifty years ago this September about 480 sophomores walked into the brand new Crescenta Valley High School building starting a legacy of academic excellence, a new level 50 years of excellence of volunteerism and the beginning of an athletic dynasty. Those first few months had a staggered schedule that included students from […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The Station Fire meeting that had been postponed from early August has now been rescheduled for Oct. 12 according to Congressman Adam Schiff. “The goal is to hear from representatives of the Forest Service and other responding agencies, as well as outside experts and critics, to shed additional light on firefighting procedures […]
Independent fact finding report found in district’s favor for concessions, citing deficit spending and poor state budget. By Rachel KANE Just a day after the Glendale Unified School District and the Glendale Teachers Assoc. ratified their employee labor agreement, the district has released a fact finding report which justifies their requests for concessions. The agreement, […]
By Sue KILPATRICK “Oh shine on, shine on Harvest Moon Up in the sky…” — By the vaudeville team of Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth (1903) These lyrics reminisce of a romance, in days gone by … beneath a Harvest Moon. Summer has come to an end and autumn arrives to take its place. With […]