By Mary O’KEEFE The Traffic Investigation Unit of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Dept. is continuing its investigation into the fatal accident that occurred about 3:15 p.m. on Wednesday. Los Angeles County Fire Dept., Crescenta Valley Sheriffs and Montrose Search and Rescue responded to the call of a vehicle over the side on Earlmont Drive […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Although La Cañada Flintridge and the Crescenta Valley area have low crime rates, there are still issues with residential and vehicle burglaries. In an effort to be proactive, La Cañada Flintridge’s Public Safety Commission decided to use social media to educate residents on tips to avoid being a victim of a burglary. […]
By Mary O’KEEFE A community forum has been scheduled by Glendale Unified School District to discuss the Sagebrush territory transfer issue. The meeting will be held at Mountain Avenue Elementary on Tuesday, Aug. 26 at 6 p.m. in the school’s cafeteria. There will be two other meetings held at Monte Vista and Fremont elementary schools. […]
By Mary O’KEEFE A Los Angeles Police Dept. arrest led to a man suspected of two robberies in Montrose. As reported in last week’s CVW, two elderly women were victims of daylight robberies. The first was on July 25 when a woman was approached outside her home in the 3600 block of Malafia Drive. She […]
Photos by Dan HOLM By Mary O’KEEFE he film industry lost three innovators and icons this week, a comedian and actor who first came on screen as an alien that captured our hearts, an actress who defined sultry and taught us all “how to whistle” and the man who blew up the Death Star […]
GUSD schools welcomed students back with smiles, fist bumps … and Common Core. By Jason KUROSU Public schools are back in session and kids seem to be everywhere. About 8,795 kids from kindergarten to 12th grade attend the seven local elementary schools, one middle school and two high schools in the Crescenta Valley area. […]
By Mary O’KEEFE It is time once again for the annual Montrose Film Festival, sponsored by the Montrose Shopping Park Assn., and this year it will celebrate an extraterrestrial and an adventurer archeologist. It was five years ago that community leaders Steve Pierce and Tony Smith were sitting at Black Cow Café on Honolulu Avenue, […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The southbound lanes of Pennsylvania Avenue from Foothill Boulevard were closed Friday due to an explosion in one unit of an apartment complex in the 4400 block of Pennsylvania Avenue. Someone in the apartment was doing some fumigation work in a unit. “What could have happened was the fumigation met with […]
By Mary O’KEEFE After serving 30 years as a Glendale police officer, Sgt. Tom Lorenz has decided not to retire but to move to another area of the city as Glendale’s spokesman. Eleven years ago, Lorenz took the helm as the GPD public information officer. His duties were to deal with the media on everything […]
By Mary O’KEEFE A small fire occurred in the gym area at Crescenta Valley High School on Aug 7. Los Angeles County Fire Dept. Station 63 responded and contained the fire within minutes. “It was accidental,” said Capt. Shawn Grizzard, Station 63. There was minimal damage to the school. The alarm system was activated and […]