Police, Fire and Public Health Respond to Nursing Facility … Again

Another service call to a local nursing home finds residents sweating out the recent high temperatures. By Mary O’KEEFE Once again Glendale police and fire departments responded to a call to the Verdugo Valley Skilled Nursing and Wellness Centre at 2635 Honolulu Ave. On Saturday at 1:41 p.m. an anonymous caller to the Glendale police […]

Fire Alert Raised for Labor Day

By Mary O’KEEFE Labor Day is the time when people enjoy the last little bit of summer vacation. The weather, which has been sweltering recently, looks to be cooling off for the weekend with the National Weather Service/Oxnard expecting daytime temperatures in the high 80s and evenings a cool 65 degrees. For those tapping into […]

Hikers Found After All Night Search

By Mary O’KEEFE The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Dept. air unit and the Montrose Search and Rescue and Sierra Madre Search and Rescue teams found three missing hikers about 8:40 a.m. this morning, nearly 24 hours after the trio left on a hike in the Devil’s Canyon area of the Angeles National Forest. The three […]

Film Festival Harks Back to the Good Ole Days

Pull on your bobby socks and slick back your hair – Montrose is hosting a film festival. By Mary O’KEEFE “Where were you in ’62?” That is the question that the movie “American Graffiti” asked and one the community can answer at the 2nd Annual Montrose Film Festival. Friday and Saturday nights will be a […]

Line Up – It’s Back to School

By Mary O’KEEFE On Monday, Crescenta Valley kids will head back to school. That means this week was all about lines. Lines for school supplies, lines for schedules, lines for books and in some cases, lines to find out what line to stand in to get a particular question answered. At both the middle and […]

A Hidden Historical Gem

By Mary O’KEEFE In 1798, Don José Verdugo, a corporal in the Mexican Army stationed in San Gabriel, was given the first land grant in California by the King of Spain. The conditions to this land grant were that he farm the land, raise livestock and live in peace with the American Indians of the […]

Earthquakes Not in California

By Mary O’KEEFE The east coast has had a little west coast shaking due to an unusually strong earthquake for that area. A quake registering as a 5.8 magnitude, according to U.S. Geologic Society, struck on Tuesday at 5:51 p.m., followed by an aftershock registering at 2.8, at 6:46 p.m. More aftershocks continued with two […]

See’s Candies Store in La Cañada Flintridge Robbed by Lone Suspect

By Mary O’KEEFE On Monday, a man entered the See’s Candies store at 1133 Foothill Blvd. in La Cañada at 6 p.m., just before the store was scheduled to closed. He ordered the two employees to lock the door and demanded money from the cash register. There were no customers in the store at the […]

CV Sheriff’s Memorial Nears Completion

By Mary O’KEEFE Less than a year after fundraising officially began, the Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s Station Memorial is now days from completion. The memorial is located in the grassy area of the CV Sheriff’s Station parking lot entrance at 4554 Briggs Ave. in La Crescenta. The memorial is dedicated to two fallen CV Sheriff deputies […]

And the Emmy Goes To …

By Mary O’KEEFE A documentary about the Rockhaven Sanitarium in Montrose was awarded an Emmy at the 63rd Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards. Producers Vicki Gardner and Jessica Houston along with associate producer Derek Martin on Aug. 6 were awarded for their work on “Rockhaven: A Sanctuary From Glendale’s Past.” “I was so excited. I […]