By Mary O’KEEFE Prom Plus’ Taste of Montrose was held on Sunday, along with the annual Kids & Kritters and Wags n Whiskers events. Honolulu Avenue was full of dogs, kids and people enjoying the many things offered. The Taste of Montrose is a fundraiser for Prom Plus, which is celebrating its 25th year as […]
By Mary O’KEEFE “The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it’s a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of […]
By Mary O’KEEFE It was a typical Wednesday afternoon last week for Artur Poghosyan. He went to work at his office on the corner of Honolulu and La Crescenta avenues then, around noon, headed out for lunch. During his walk back to his office his day turned anything but typical. “It happened very fast,” Poghosyan […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Montrose is getting closer to having two new restaurants soon … hopefully. The former site of Rocky Cola in the 2200 block of Honolulu Avenue has been vacant since the diner closed in 2012. In 2017, the space was acquired by restaurateur Tom Christopoulos who announced he would open the restaurant as […]
After the rains, fire fuels abound and residents need to reduce brush and dead vegetation from their houses. By Mary O’KEEFE From Jan. 1 to Dec. 30, 2018 there were 6,284 wildfires across California that destroyed a total of 876,147 acres. The combined CAL FIRE and U.S. Forest Service area had 7,571 fires that destroyed […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Those in Crescenta Valley know well to avoid the Ralph’s market parking lot in the 2600 block of Foothill Boulevard from 2:50 p.m. to 4 p.m. This is when students from Rosemont Middle School swarm the parking lot, either waiting for a ride home or spending those last few minutes with friends […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Crescenta Valley, Sunland-Tujunga and La Cañada Flintridge are high-risk fire areas. This means higher insurance rates and aggressive tree trimming by Southern California Edison. “We prune to 12 feet from the power lines at the time of trimming,” said Melanie Jocelyn, principal manager, Transmission and Distribution Management, SCE. “Our concern first and […]
By Mary O’KEEFE When Kimberly Bishop retired from her role as principal of La Crescenta Elementary School in 2014, she was looking forward to new adventures. Those adventures included enjoying time with her husband at their vacation home in Hawaii until Tuesday when a normal day in the beautiful South Seas ended with her being […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The much anticipated May 1 meeting of the Los Angeles County Committee on School District Organization [LACCSDO] has been cancelled. Normally these meetings are canceled without making a ripple in the community, but this cancellation has made a splash. The May 1 meeting was to discuss the territorial transfer between Glendale Unified […]
By Mary O’Keefe Saturday, April 27, the Sunland-Tujunga Neighborhood Council Elections will be held from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. located at North Valley City Hall, Meeting Hall, 7747 Foothill Blvd., Tujunga, 91042. Sunland-Tujunga Neighborhood Council is part of the City of Los Angeles. Neighborhood Council elections occur every two years. “While Neighborhood Council board […]