Best of the Road® is back for round two, asking Americans to share their hometown pride and show road-trippers the best small towns America has to offer. Rand McNally and USA TODAY are calling for friends, family, colleagues or coworkers to put their town on the map — literally — and be named the Best of the Road as […]
Join the Crescenta Valley Drug and Alcohol Prevention Coalition and “What Every Parent Needs to Know” tonight at 6:30 p.m. There will be short skits written by local kids concerning underage drinking. Middle and high school students debate the problem and solutions, moderated by Judge Fredrick R. Rotenberg. Tonight at 6:30 p.m. at the Center […]
Twelve accomplished boys from La Crescenta Cub Scout Pack 360 have earned Cub Scout’s highest award, the Arrow of Light, which was presented to them on Friday in a ceremony held at Dunsmore Auditorium. Calling themselves “The Phoenix Patrol”, the boys, under the guidance of den leaders Nate Brown and Michael O’Bryan, completed up to 20 different […]
Going any Lengths for Relay Last year while attending our community’s 11th Annual Foothills Relay For Life, a 24-hour walk for the American Cancer Society, I was struck with an idea how to raise additional funds on the morning of the event. Shave my head! This was not going to come cheap. My goal was […]
Amid redevelopment funding woes, the future of a cultural icon is in question. By Ted AYALA Talk about the ongoing, protracted mess that is the saga of the state’s shuttering of its redevelopment agencies and the municipalities fighting to keep some semblance of them in operation, and those who are following the news understand its […]
Uniform standards hope to create safe, secure environment for students and teachers. By Timithie NORMAN Members of the Glendale Unified School District board of education met March 20 to discuss the latest plans for Measure S funds, which included numerous updates and renovations to the safety and security of all 43 campuses in the district […]
By Ted AYALA Glendale City Council voted 3-2 on Tuesday night to include a ballot measure for the April 2013 city election that would modify how future city treasurers are appointed to office. Glendale’s charter currently places the power of appointment with voters, allowing city treasurers to serve for a four-year term. The ballot measure […]
Today, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) again called on the Forest Service to end the interminable delay in their assessment of the agency’s night-flying operations. The helicopter portion of the report was supposed to be completed by August 2011, but the Forest Service missed that deadline. Since then, the Forest Service has missed another internal deadline to […]
Revisiting our Roots Earlier this year, Lisa Mitchell joined our staff here at the Crescenta Valley Weekly. She is a blessing and has kept us in tip-top shape. Recently, Lisa came across the very first issue of the CV Weekly. She was pretty surprised by how far the paper has come in just two-and-a-half years. […]
“The sun was warm, but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day.” ~ Robert Frost A winter storm warning for the mountains of L.A. County was posted by the National Weather Service on Saturday night. I heard this as we traveled south from the Central Coast, just ahead of […]