By Charly SHELTON The Crescenta Valley High School Falkon Robotics Team 589 will be competing this weekend in a battle of the bots! The annual FIRST Robotics competition is being held this weekend at the Long Beach Convention Center Arena. The competition pits high school teams against each other in a game played by the […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Foothill Boulevard and Honolulu Avenue are the main thoroughfares in the community of Crescenta Valley. There are buildings that have been along the roadways for years, like the 1920s stone church St. Luke’s of the Mountains, and buildings that have been torn down, remodeled and reworked. It’s interesting sometimes to look at […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The Crescenta Valley High School PTSA celebrated Founders’ Day with the theme “Grow, Thrive and Flourish.” The event was held at the school’s cafeteria on Feb. 29 and highlighted people in the community who support students. PTSA received many submissions for honorary service awardees. Submissions came from teachers, parents and students. Lt. […]
By Mary O’KEEFE CV Alliance announced on Friday that it will be transferring the organization to the YMCA of the Foothills. It was about eight years ago that a group of concerned residents from the Crescenta Valley, led by then-Glendale Community Police Officer Matt Zakarian and parent Susan Dubin, began the conversation on drug abuse […]
By Mary O’KEEFE It has been a year of firsts for the Crescenta Valley High School JROTC – the first time they will compete in the Air Force National JROTC Drill Championship Series in Daytona, Florida, the first time the Junior Eagles Camp (an outreach project provided for Rosemont Middle School students) was held and […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Once again the Montrose Search and Rescue team spent a weekend doing something most people would not normally be doing … they climbed the face of an ice mountain. For about 10 years the MSR members have been traveling to Lee Vining Canyon near Mammoth Mountain to continue training in snow and […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Changes continue along Honolulu Avenue with the sale of Montrose Travel to Corporate Travel Management, an Australian based company. For 60 years Montrose Travel has been part of Montrose. Joe McClure Sr. and his wife Leora purchased the company in the early 1970s and together they built a business with small town […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Community members have reached out to the Crescenta Valley Town Council with their concerns with what appears to be a growing and constant problem with illegal dumping. Several items, including sofas, chairs, large boxes, TVs and even small refrigerators, have been found along streets in both the far north city of Glendale […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Starbucks will not be having its Evenings program at the location at the corner of Ocean View Boulevard and Honolulu Avenue in Montrose it was decided Wednesday night. Starbucks Evenings program was first rolled out in a Starbucks in Seattle, Washington in 2010. The next year the company expanded to several locations […]
After 38 years, Young Rhea is turning the keys over to City Hall Café. By Mary O’KEEFE So you’re working in an accountant’s office and happen to see a notice in the newspaper of a restaurant for sale in your hometown. What do you do? If you’re Young Rhea, you think, “Sure, why not own […]