By CV Weekly on Just For Fun
ARIES March 21 – April 19 Relationships are still giving you much food for thought. The tests of the previous weeks will continue, but as you have recently overcome a fairly major one, the week ahead is quiet and even peaceful by comparison. It may help to clear the air by saying it like it […]
By CV Weekly on Between Friends
A little known Labor Day destination is a short boat (or air) trip across the sea. Camp Fox Labor Day Family Camp has been operated by the Glendale YMCA since 1969. Many a family has traveled the 26-mile ocean channel to step foot on the shores of Camp Fox, Catalina. Parents and children alike have […]
By CV Weekly on Between Friends
By Doug KILPATRICK Welcome to At Home in the Foothills, a regular CV Weekly column featuring tips and information about maintaining and enjoying your home. Now that the kids are back in school and summer vacations are over it’s time to make a top-to-bottom inspection of your home. While not a substitute for professional inspections […]
By CV Weekly on Between Friends
By Brandon HENSLEY They are not long, the days of wine and roses. And so, as the summer days dwindle, residents gathered at Deukmejian Wilderness Park Sunday evening to enjoy what the park’s vineyard had to offer in the form of grape picking and wine making. The Stonebarn Vineyard Conservancy, a group whose roots are […]
By CV Weekly on Viewpoints
This week marks the one year anniversary of the Crescenta Valley Weekly. Let me say that this past year has flown by. For those who don’t know, the CV Weekly was born of the ashes of the Crescenta Valley Sun, a noble undertaking purchased by the Los Angeles Times and subsequently closed down like the […]
By CV Weekly on Viewpoints
A lot of things can and do happen in a year. Good things and bad things. Funny and sad. Some are exciting. Most, mundane. Some things you plan for and others catch you completely unprepared. Being a writer, I think a lot (far too much at times). One question I seem to wonder about often […]
By CV Weekly on Viewpoints
Next in our series on the history of the land that was once the WWII enemy alien prison “Tuna Camp,” but is now the Verdugo Hills Golf Course, comes the bizarre and bewildering story of the odyssey of the Peruvian Japanese. With the 1942 decision to remove those of Japanese ancestry from strategic areas of […]
By CV Weekly on Viewpoints
CONGRESSMAN OFFERS CONGRATS I would like to offer congratulations to the Crescenta Valley Weekly on the first anniversary of your community-based newspaper. Yours is a real family operation that has served the community well with your great reporting and insights on the local issues that matter. I have enjoyed working with all of your staff […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Senate Bill 847 has been approved and is now waiting Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s signature, as of press time. This was the last bill to reach the State Senate floor Tuesday night. If signed the bill enables the state to funnel approved federal dollars to local districts. “California’s share from Washington is about […]
By Brandon HENSLEY The rain season is just around the corner, and preparations for it in the Foothill area were the main topic at the Crescenta Valley Town Council meeting Aug. 19 in the community room of the La Crescenta Library. Christopher Stone, who represented the Water Resources Division for the Department of Public Works, […]