By Mary O’KEEFE After 120 miles through wind, cold and heat, runners from the Crescenta Valley and Altadena sheriffs stations and Glendale police department are back at work and getting ready for next years race. The 26th Annual Baker to Vegas Relay Race was last weekend. Over 250 teams divided into specific categories and began […]
City wants to build trash conversion plant Glendale intends to pursue funding for a waste conversion plant at Scholl Canyon, the city’s 40-year-old landfill and park. The landfill serves Glendale, La Cañada and La Crescenta from its site near the Eagle Rock. The waste conversion effort will not be cheap but will be competitive with […]
By Mary O’KEEFE A suspect walked away with an undetermined amount of cash on Monday from the Bank of America in the 500 block of Foothill Boulevard in La Cañada Flintridge. About 11 a.m. a suspect described as a male Hispanic, 25 to 30 years old with a stocky build entered the bank and passed […]
Youth fishing competition planned Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation is holding its 2010 Youth Fishing Derby on Saturday, May 1 from 7:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. at Apollo Park in Lancaster. The fishing derby is an opportunity for children and teens (5 to 15 years) to compete in rainbow trout fishing. Participants […]
Click here to view the video By Mary O’Keefe A pursuit that began on Glendale Avenue and Alvarado Street in Los Angeles ended with a car crashing into the front fence of a home in the 2500 block of Altura Avenue in La Crescenta. Los Angeles Police were conducting an undercover narcotic operation when the […]
By Mary O’KEEFE On Tuesday about 120 people attended a drug forum to listen to a panel of experts talk about substance abuse issues in Crescenta Valley. The forum was held at Verdugo Hills Hospital and sponsored by the Crescenta Valley Drug and Alcohol Prevention Coalition. Before the panel discussion began a video that was […]
By Brandon HENSLEY As the summer months approach, the Crescenta Valley Water District will have to concern itself with customers not conserving as much water as last year, said general manager Dennis Erdman at the District board meeting on Tuesday. Erdman said CVWD was given allocations from Foothill Municipal and Metropolitan Water District from July […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Early morning on April 10, Foothill Boulevard was a sea of red shirts and families. Cars slowed down to look at the shirts, which read on the front “Accept the facts. Accept the truth.” and the back, “Recognize Armenian Genocide.” Those wearing the shirts were from the Chamlian Armenian School in the […]
CRIME BLOTTER April 11 Pennsylvania Avenue and Pontiac Street in La Crescenta, a vehicle’s passenger side window was smashed with a rock at 9:02 p.m. Lowell and Altura avenues in La Crescenta, someone reportedly shot an apparent BB gun at a vehicle damaging a windshield at 4:47 p.m. April 8 3300 block of Oakmont View […]
By Geghard ARAKELIAN It won’t be criminals that sheriffs deputies and police officers will be chasing this weekend, but each other. The annual Baker to Vegas Relay Race takes place this weekend, an annual event for over 20 years. “It’s been a law enforcement tradition for 25 years,” said Sgt. John Gilkerson of the Glendale […]