By Mary O’KEEFE After a year of virtual studies, this week students began the slow and staggered return back to school. On March 23 elementary teachers and support staff returned to campus. Teachers prepared their classrooms for the return of some of their students though others will continue to learn virtually. This dual teaching method […]
April Fools’ Day Guffaws Can you imagine, as a kid, waking up last year to find the TV delivering the above message – you’d have to repeat the grade you were in due to COVID-19. That was the elaborate hoax played on the children of a local family by their parents on April 1, […]
“Easter is… Joining in a birdsong, Eying an early sunrise, Smelling yellow daffodils, Unbolting windows and doors, Skipping through meadows, Cuddling newborns, Hoping, believing, Reviving spent life, Inhaling fresh air, Sprinkling seeds along furrows, Tracking in the mud. Easter is the soul’s first taste of spring.” ~ Richelle E. Goodrich Passover is… A time of […]
By Justin HAGER The City of Glendale joined Los Angeles, Long Beach and more than 20 other California cities that require grocery and drug retailers to pay hourly employees an additional $5 per hour in “hero pay” for their essential service during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. To help create compliance, the ordinance also creates significant […]
By Mary O’KEEFE State Senator Anthony Portantino and Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger sponsored a COVID-19 town hall meeting last week that covered specific pandemic topics including vaccines, pediatric health and tenant/landlord relief. Portantino and Barger focused the first part of the meeting on the medical side of COVID-19, which included speakers Pia S. […]
Two Males Arrested, Handgun Located On March 29 just after 3 a.m., patrol officers were driving on Colorado Street near the 5 Freeway entrance when they conducted a records check of a vehicle turning onto the on-ramp and discovered that there was an arrest warrant attached to the plate for an Antonio Pineda-Sanchez. The officers […]
March 27 600 block of Foxwood Road in La Cañada Flintridge, deputies responded to a burglary alarm at a home. They found a window had been broken and several rooms ransacked. Nothing was reported stolen. The burglary occurred at 10:25 p.m. March 26 Angeles Crest Highway in the Angeles National Forest, a hiker left her […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Congressman Adam Schiff toured Balboa Elementary School in Glendale a few days prior to students returning to class on March 29 to see the preparations made by school staff to make certain the school was ready for in-person learning. Principal Sona Arakelyan was joined on the tour by several members of the […]
CV Weekly Offices Closed Half Day The offices of the CV Weekly will close at 1 p.m. today, Thursday, April 1 (no fooling). LA County to Move into Orange Tier The state determined this week that LA County has moved from the red, or substantial, tier into the orange, or moderate, tier. Some indoor business […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Montrose Search and Rescue (MSR) team had a busy Sunday. The day started out as a training day in the Angeles National Forest but soon the team was responding to distress calls. “We had received a call [Sunday] morning regarding someone having [a medical issue] at the Mt. Lukens, Haines Canyon area,” […]