By Mary O’KEEFE By Mary O’KEEFE Beginning this fall Crescenta Valley kindergartners will be able to take a Korean dual language program at Monte Vista Elementary School. The Foreign Language Academy of Glendale (FLAG) is offered to all kindergartners who will begin the school year 2010-2011. This is the first Crescenta Valley school within Glendale […]
By Charles COOPER Superior Court Judge David Yaffee has ruled for the city in its decision to uphold Glendale’s decision to revoke permits previously granted to the Montrose Collection Restaurant and Banquet Hall. The ruling by Yaffe upheld the City Council’s 2009 decision to revoke the establishment’s Parking Reduction Permit and Zoning Use Certificate. Owners […]
By Mary O’KEEFE During the February rains, when it seemed as if the entire hillside was sliding down, firefighters found immediate refuge in the Selemis’ Ocean View Boulevard home for those displaced. On Monday, firefighters got a chance to say thank you to the family for opening their home to their neighbors and to the […]
By Charles COOPER Glendale city bargaining units will be asked for as much as $3 million in salary and benefit concessions to help balance the city budget for the coming year. Council members were told Tuesday that the city faces about an $8 million deficit for the coming year, as revenues continue to flatline. City […]
By Erna TAYLOR-STARK Early on Saturday morning at the corner of Verdugo and Honolulu, about two dozen adults, teens and a few kids, including Ryan Waldheim son of longtime Relay for Life coordinator Chris, painted graffiti on the windows of several stores…right in broad daylight. Sharon Martin, former town counsel member and cancer survivor who […]
Crescenta Valley Drug & Alcohol Coalition Community Forum A free drug and alcohol forum will be held on April 13 at Verdugo Hills Hospital 4th floor from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. The topics of discussion will include Social Hosting: Drug & Alcohol Parties hosted by adults for children. A panel will discuss the laws […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Recently Crescenta Valley seniors were invited to an afternoon tea and stroll through a lovely Californian garden at Crescenta Valley Park. The tea was a celebration of the end of a long and at times very difficult journey that Girl Scout Nancy Au began many months ago. “I wanted to have a […]
By Geghard ARAKELIAN Last Wednesday a grim scene was on display on Ramdsdell Avenue, adjacent to Crescenta Valley High School, as students came across the bodies of their classmates mangled and motionless after a gruesome car wreck; onlookers shared mixed feelings as some laughed and others looked on silently during the Every 15 Minutes program. […]
By Geghard ARAKELIAN A car heading westbound in the 1900 block of Waltonia Drive flipped over after hitting a parked car at about 4 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon, March 24. The fire department, California Highway Patrol and Sheriff’s deputies responded to a 911 call when an elderly man smashed his Acura sedan into a parked […]
The Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s Station has received reports of more than twenty-five window smash vehicle burglaries since the beginning of 2010. Similar burglaries were also reported in the latter half of 2009. The suspects targeted locked vehicles with small valuables (purses, laptop computers, backpacks, etc.) left in plain view. Most of the burglaries occurred in […]