By Robin GOLDSWORTHY It was a night to celebrate everything that McGroarty Arts Center is to the community – and to remind people of what it takes to keep such an iconic place open to the public. On Aug. 26 – thankfully before the onset of the La Tuna Fire – the Arts Center hosted […]
Firefighters were dispatched at 8:05 p.m. on Sunday to respond to a large commercial structure fire at Montessori Infant Care and Preschool in the 3900 block of Pennsylvania Avenue. The first unit on scene reported smoke and fire and the need for forcible entry. There was a report of one minor injury to a firefighter […]
Patriot Day on Sept. 11 will once again be recognized with a patriotic motorcade. By Mary O’KEEFE Patriot Day is on Sept. 11 and honors the victims of the 2001 9/11 terrorist attacks. It is observed as the National Day of Service and Remembrance. In Crescenta Valley, it is recognized with two separate ceremonies. A […]
By Charly SHELTON Children of the 1990s remember who taught them science. From learning the principles of fossilization through a home experiment involving a sponge and table salt to discovering how airplanes fly in a music video of “Nyevana’s” classic song, “Smells Like Air Pressure,” scientific principles were made accessible to Gen Y kids through […]
CVTC Land Use Committee Meets Reminder that the Crescenta Valley Town Council Land Use Committee meets tonight, Thursday, at 6:30 p.m. at the La Crescenta Library community room. The focus of the meeting is to discuss the street lighting survey that was recently completed. The committee will review the results and make a recommendation to […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Crescenta Valley has long been a place where people see a need and fill it. They volunteer, help their neighbor and, if they feel something needs to be done, they simply do it. No one embodied that spirit more than Vito Cannella. Vito, the former Montrose postmaster, the neighborhood barber, one of […]
NASA is using its assets and expertise from across the agency, including from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to help respond to Hurricane Harvey, which has been a disaster of unprecedented proportions for those who live and work in Southeast Texas. With no atmospheric steering mechanism to move the storm once it made landfall, Harvey produced […]
“I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen rain. I’ve seen sunny days that I thought would never end.” ~ James Taylor What a week! When the La Tuna Fire really took off, I was in the La Crescenta Vons parking lot. The temperature had climbed beyond the 100 degrees mark, and while smoke billowed, cumulonimbus clouds […]
A Most Laborious Labor Day When the La Tuna Fire first broke in the early afternoon on Friday, I really didn’t give it much thought. It isn’t uncommon for small fires to be quickly snuffed out. However, I should have remembered the Station Fire that happened exactly eight years ago and the story of it […]