By Jason KUROSU This Sunday’s Montrose Shopping Park Harvest Market will feature a few alterations, primarily a change to the Thieves’ Market, now to be called the Montrose Harvest Marketplace. According to Montrose Shopping Park Association president Ken Grayson, the name change was made to stray away from what was perceived as a negative image […]
Win for California doesn’t translate to local budget relief By Timithie NORMAN On Dec. 16, it was announced that California was one of nine winners of one of President Obama’s Race to the Top grants awarded by the Department of Education to encourage innovation and reform in K-12 education. Unfortunately, the Glendale Unified School District, […]
Learning Together The Crescenta Valley community has stepped cautiously on a path of healing in the wake of the suicide at CV High School on Feb. 10, but the path that moves us forward will have detours that cause us to look back. The question that is uppermost in all of our minds is “Why?” […]
“The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within.” ~ William Bryant 1794-1878, editor of “N.Y. Evening Post,” poet Only a poet’s description of nature can do it justice. The above quotation, “…sunshine steeps your boughs…” sounds lovely, but what precisely does “steeps” mean? Considering the time period in […]
By Maddy PUMILIA Foothill Car Wash is teaming up with SoCal Recycling for an electronic waste drive this Saturday, Feb. 25 that helps local organization Prom Plus as well as the environment. People can go to Foothill Car Wash at 2355 Foothill Blvd. on Saturday between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. and donate recyclable materials. […]
Fundraiser for Drew’s Voice Leo’s All Star is hosting a fundraiser on March 4 for Drew’s Voice, an organization recently established to fight bullying and bring awareness of the need to prevent bullying in the community and across the nation. The public is invited to attend a car show at 11 a.m. and a wienie […]
Last weekend a group of Montrose Search and Rescue (SAR) team members along with two Los Angeles County Sheriff Air Rescue 5 medics climbed frozen waterfalls in Lee Vining Canyon, just east of Yosemite. It was the yearly training of “V.I.R.T.,” (Vertical Ice Response Team). This type of climbing is highly technical and dangerous. Specialized […]
For the seventh consecutive year, IHOP restaurants nationwide will offer each guest a free short stack of its famous buttermilk pancakes on National Pancake Day, Feb. 28 from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. in an effort to raise awareness and funds for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. For every short stack of buttermilk pancakes served on […]
Assemblyman Reintroduces salary freeze measure (AB 1787). For the eighth time, Assemblymember Anthony Portantino (D-La Cañada Flintridge) has introduced a measure to freeze the pay of California’s highest paid employees. AB 1787 calls for a two-year freeze on state employees who earn over $100,000 – thousands of state employees could be subject to the salary […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Montrose Search and Rescue team responded to a call concerning two missing mountain bikers on Monday evening about 9 p.m. The two bikers, both from Orange County, were biking a trail in the Arroyo Seco area near the old Idlewild campground in the Angeles National Forest. “We got stuck in the middle […]