The Pains of Disco On Friday night, after returning from three glorious days on vacation in Cambria (ah, the wine tasting, the smell of fresh pines, the wine tasting) I shopped in my closet to find appropriate garb for the annual Disco and Diamonds fundraiser benefitting the Glendale Educational Foundation. (Sadly I found everything I […]
“The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day.” ~ Dr. Seuss, The Cat in the Hat The rest of the country may scoff at Southern California shivering in 50- and 60-degree weather, but this has indeed been one of the […]
By Julian MITCHELL If you were to walk into the College View School, it would be relatively quiet. Students may be playing and instructors may be teaching, but all-in-all the halls remain quiet. That is until Mrs. Julie Kay Stallcup comes to teach her dance class. The halls are then filled with her music, her […]
Off-ramp Cleanup The monthly cleanup of the La Crescenta Avenue 210 freeway off-ramp is Saturday, March 9. Volunteers meet at the 2700 block of Altura Avenue at 8:30 a.m. for instructions, safety vests and tools. VETERANS HOST MONTHLY BREAKFASt Local veterans host a monthly breakfast at the Verdugo Hills Memorial Hall on the second […]
Celebrating Agnes Richards, RN March is Women’s History Month. Although there are so many women who have done so many amazing and important things, for this month CVW will be focusing on women who have helped shape the future, often defying social norms. In the 1920s, the approach to mental health was often barbaric, […]
By Mary O’KEEFE In 1957, actors Spencer Tracy and Kathryn Hepburn starred in “Desk Set,” a film about computer expert and inventor, Tracy, bringing his masterpiece – EMERAC [Electromagnetic Memory and Research Arithmetical Calculator] into the reference library in a large company that is managed by Hepburn. Although there was a love story mixed in, […]
By Julian MITCHELL The Glendale Unified School District Board of Education met in special session on Tuesday to discuss fiscal matters and the search for a new superintendent. However, only discussion on fiscal matters proceeded after the second closed session of the board led to an announcement that the search for a new superintendent is […]
The deadline to apply to be part of the Glendale Unified School District’s Restorative Practices Advisory Task Force is March 1. The district is seeking parent, employee and community applicants to join the Restorative Practices Advisory Task Force and provide input on next steps for implementing Restorative Practices throughout the district. Members will be selected […]
By Charly SHELTON In 2012, a visitor from Earth touched down on Mars. Landing in Gale Crater with a two-year mission to examine the geology of three-mile-high Mount Sharp located within the crater, the Curiosity rover has been driving up the side of the mountain since that time and is about to make a foray […]
On Feb. 16, at approximately 9 p.m., Glendale Police Dept. officers responded to the 3300 block of Reta Street in the City of Glendale regarding a burglary in progress and two suspects seen inside the home. Investigation revealed the home is currently under construction and vacant. The homeowner and two friends arrived at the residence […]