Mountview Retirement Community Honors Resident Veterans

By Samantha SLAYBACK Each year on Veterans’ Day,  many people take time to remember and celebrate those who have fought for their country. At Mountview Retirement Community, veterans were celebrated with a special ceremony to unveil a new veterans wall. Many friends, family, and fellow Mountview residents joined in honoring those who have served this […]

A Place to Call Home for Local Vets

A Place to Call Home for Local Vets

By Isiah REYES Glendale’s newest affordable housing project reserved for lower income seniors, Cypress Senior Living, has given new life to six lucky veterans. One of the six veterans at Cypress Senior Living is Thomas O’Shaughnessy, who had previously lived in Burbank for about 14 years. Being disabled and requiring a wheelchair to move around, […]

Crescenta Commons Ribbon Cut

By Mary O’KEEFE “A place for the community for now and for always,” was how Dr. Armina Gharpetian of the Glendale Unified School District described the Crescenta Commons at its ribbon cutting ceremony on Saturday. Crescenta Commons is a pocket park on the corner of Rosemont and Orange avenues, just east of Monte Vista Elementary […]

UC Tuition Increase

By Jason KUROSU The University of California Board of Regents will vote next week on a proposed tuition increase which would raise tuition fees by as much as 5% over the next five years for both graduate and undergraduate students. The proposal would raise tuition from $12,192 to $12,804 next fall, even with an expected […]

Historic Comet Landing

Historic Comet Landing

After more than a decade traveling through space, a robotic lander built by the European Space Agency made the first-ever soft landing of a spacecraft on a comet. In actuality the spacecraft may have landed twice. Once on the surface, then bounced around and back onto the surface. Mission controllers at ESA’s mission operations center […]

Crime blotter

Nov. 9 Flanders Road in La Cañada Flintridge, several rooms in a home were ransacked. Deputies responded to a call concerning pool water overflowing. When they arrived, they noticed the sliding glass door was smashed and left ajar. It was not determined what or if anything was missing. It is not known when the incident […]

Teens and Social Media

By Joyce LEE The evolution of technology creates a perpetual increase in the number of social media sites. Though the internet is readily available for people of all ages, teenagers constitute an overwhelming high percent of traffic on social media sites. Although there is ongoing controversy about the consequences social media results for teens, it […]

Burbank Accepting Candidate Nominations

The City of Burbank is now accepting nominations for the 2015 Municipal Elections. The elections, which will be conducted by mail ballot, will seek to fill two Burbank City Council seats and three board of education seats. Candidates for elective offices of the city must be a United States citizen; at least 18 years of […]

Electronic Plan Check comes to LCF Community Development Department

The City of La Cañada Flintridge contracts with the County of Los Angeles to provide building and safety services. This allows the city to utilize the employees and expertise of the much larger county department when processing projects in the city. Earlier this month, the County of Los Angeles presented to the LCF City Council […]