By Mary O’KEEFE The first of five U.S. Forest Service public open house meetings was held on Monday at the Pacific Community Center in Glendale. The purpose of the meetings are to get public input on the development of the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument Management Plan. On Oct. 14, 2014 President Barack Obama signed […]
By Seo Jin LEE, intern The Fourth of July celebration at La Crescenta Elementary School playground, 4343 La Crescenta Ave. in La Crescenta, is coming back for another year. The Crescenta Valley Fireworks Association (CVFA) in conjunction with event chairs and volunteer committees will be putting on the 9th Annual Fourth of July event for […]
June 22 1900 block of La Granada Way in La Cañada Flintridge electronics, including a computer, and jewelry were stolen from a home. It appeared a person/s entered a residence via a side door and ransacked the home between 7:45 a.m. and 2 p.m. June 21 5400 block of Godbey Drive in La Cañada, a […]
Friends, family and longtime customers filled City Hall Café to say goodbye and happy retirement to longtime City Hall waitress Wanda Bergstrom. It will be difficult to walk into the restaurant and not see Bergstrom, coffee pot in hand, greeting customers, joking with old friends and serving a hot cup of coffee … something […]
By Brandon HENSLEY L.A. County Supervisor Mike Antonovich has informed LA-RICS to stop the construction of a communications tower at the CV Sheriff’s Station in La Crescenta. Antonovich’s office sent a letter to LA-RICS’s executive director Patrick Mallon on June 19, one day after the most recent Crescenta Valley Town Council meeting, where council voted […]
By Mary O’KEEFE About 100 concerned residents from the unincorporated area of Los Angeles County/La Crescenta met with the Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s Station Capt. Bill Song and Sgt. Cynthia Gonzales on Monday evening. Their purpose was to ask questions concerning what some have perceived as a radical increase in residential burglary in the last few […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The California Assembly is moving forward with legislation concerning criminal DNA testing [Proposition 69]. In December the California appeals court struck down the state law allowing the collection of DNA from anyone arrested on suspicion of committing a felony. Voters had originally approved the law in 2004. Collection is continuing after the […]
“How beautiful the rain! After the dust and the heat…. Across the windowpane It pours and pours; And swift and ride, with muddy tide, Like a river down the gutter roars… The rain, the welcome rain!” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Summer is only days old but already we have grown weary of the heat. […]
See Something – Say Something At the CV Town Council meeting last Thursday there were two items that sparked interest. The first was a proposed communications tower that was to be installed at the sheriff’s station. This proposed tower prompted debate – sometimes heated debate – between those who felt that the possible exposure to […]
In April, the Governor issued an executive order calling for reductions in potable water use across the state. To accomplish reductions, irrigation of ornamental turf with potable water in city medians is no longer permitted. The City of La Cañada Flintridge took immediate action to comply with drought regulations and has turned off all irrigation […]