By Mary O’KEEFE A 14-year-old Sunland girl was transported to the hospital with serious injuries on Tuesday after the vehicle she was driving backed into a basin near a church’s parking lot. According to the Los Angeles Police Department, at 9:10 p.m. a church function was in progress at the Sunland Neighborhood Evangelical Church in […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Montrose Search and Rescue spent late Sunday and early Monday morning searching for a hiker in the Angeles National Forest. She was found 11 hours after setting out for a hike to Twin Peaks. The 37-year-old Glassell Park woman left her home about 1 p.m. on Sunday for a hike in the […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The CV Drug and Alcohol Prevention Coalition will present a seminar titled “Sex, Drugs and Social Networking” on Tuesday at the Verdugo Hills Hospital Community Room at 6:30 p.m. The special guest speaker will be Glendale Police Sgt. Tom Lorenz. “The youth have mastered networking tools and most parents are unaware of […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Crescenta Valley High School JROTC has had a very busy schedule this year. They are unique in the area, the only ROTC program in Glendale Unified School District which means their color guard services are very much in demand. Once they added the table honoring Prisoner of War/Missing in Action, the requests […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Once again this weekend the roar of motorcycle engines could be heard echoing through Angeles National Forest as the sight of colorful cyclists trail up and down the winding highway. The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) opened the seven-mile stretch of Angeles Crest Highway (SR2) from La Cañada Flintridge to Wrightwood and […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Like everything else in the world, bullying has gone high-tech. Instead of one boy facing another boy and pushing him around or one girl starting a rumor about another, the method of bullying in many cases has gone cyber. Of course the old fashioned way of intimidation still occurs but with so […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The Crescenta Valley Town Council meeting is tonight in the La Crescenta Library Community Room. Normally the general meeting is held on the third Thursday of each month however it was changed so not to interfere with high school graduations scheduled for June 16. A Land Use Meeting will begin at 6 […]
By Mary O’KEEFE A 13-year-old La Crescenta girl was the victim of a hit-and-run accident on Ramsdell Avenue just north of Foothill Boulevard on June 1 at 8:45 p.m. The young girl was crossing east to west on Ramsdell Avenue about 400 feet north of Foothill Boulevard when a dark colored SUV driving southbound hit […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Fremont Elementary School Field Day had students hopping like frogs, hula hooping and racing in a water brigade. Principal Christin Walley pulled from her physical education background and organized a day of health and fitness. In addition to the many races that challenged the students’ endurance and teamwork were health stations. Glendale […]
By Mary O’KEEFE and Jason KUROSU For just a few minutes on Monday, time stopped in Crescenta Valley. Flags waved in the wind, soldiers saluted and taps played. For a just a few minutes people on both sides of the political aisle took time to remember those who served and died in service of their […]