Things are Getting Back to Normal … or Are Things Getting Back to Normal? Contrary to last year, this year’s Halloween celebration seemed much closer to “normal.” Though the Spooktacular event in Montrose was absent, plenty of folks took time to decorate the exterior of their houses, pleasing passersby. Keeping COVID safety in mind, 413 […]
By forces seemingly antagonistic and destructive Nature accomplishes her beneficent designs now a flood of fire, now a flood of ice, now a flood of water; and again in the fullness of time an outburst of organic life. ~ John Muir The skies are a color of blue in which only autumn presents. Daytime […]
Annual Shredding Day Shredding Day, when one can destroy financial documents and other personal papers professionally and securely while watching, will be held Saturday, Nov. 6 from 9 a.m. to noon in the parking lot behind Grandview Presbyterian Church, 1130 Ruberta Ave. (between Glenoaks and Fifth Street). The shredding truck has a TV camera that […]
By Mary O’KEEFE On Nov. 11, 1909, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed Armistice Day. Although the official end to “The Great War” – World War I – happened when the Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919 the fighting had actually ceased seven months earlier on Nov. 11, 1918. This is why Armistice Day […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Los Angeles County Parks and Recreation has completed work on an entrance/exit ramp at the far west end of Two Strike Park. As CVW reported on Sept. 16, local residents had concerns about the construction of the ramp that was part of a walking path project that extended from Two Strike Park […]
Oct. 31 4400 block of La Crescenta Avenue in La Crescenta, a catalytic converter was stolen from a vehicle. A resident reported hearing a loud noise of metal being cut. He looked out his window and saw a vehicle, described at a white Chevy Tahoe or Suburban, parked next to a local church. The resident […]
Male Arrested for Attempted Carjacking of a Police Vehicle On Oct. 28 at approximately 10:58 a.m., officers with the Glendale Police Dept. were investigating a traffic collision in the area of Glorietta Avenue and Verdugo Road. One of the officers on scene was conducting traffic control, standing just outside of his/her vehicle (which was running with […]
By Mary O’KEEFE A flyer concerning the Hill Banquet Hall in the 3300 block of North Verdugo Boulevard has been circulating nearby neighborhoods. The flyer states the proposed banquet hall has been building “without any permits.” The issues listed on the flyer include increased traffic, limited parking availability at the location that spills onto residential […]
By Bethany BROWN On Oct. 26, the Glendale Unified School District Board of Education held its first Student Voice Panel (SVP) of the 2021 academic year. Student representatives from all five high schools in the district were present to provide feedback to board members on a variety of topics. SVP meetings happen twice within the […]
Glendale Library, Arts & Culture (GLAC) is starting an initiative to increase COVID-19 vaccine uptake in the city by recruiting and training community members to become “vaccine influencers” who have the tools to effectively build vaccine confidence with friends and family. GLAC will train vaccine influencers on evidence-based communication strategies, how to handle misinformation, and the basics […]