Vineyard Workday Planned The StoneBarn Vineyard Conservancy will have a vineyard event at Deukmejian Wilderness Park on Saturday, April 2 from 8 a.m. to noon. The vines are bursting out all over, and need training on the trellising, a little leaf pruning, and some judicious weeding. This will also be the start of planting of […]
By Mary O’KEEFE or decades the Montrose Bakery was a community favorite for baked goods and breakfast, lunch and dinner. In addition to feeding the community the restaurant also hired many locals including college students. The bakery often supplied the cake for the Montrose Founder’s Day and donated to many organizations including Prom Plus. Then […]
By Brandon HENSLEY For his sixth grade promotion, Drake Barron received a mountain bike from his parents. Here was a boy about to embark on a new journey into junior high, and to do so he needed a new ride. His parents, after all, are Tanya and Ted, who run Janssen’s Carpet Cleaning in La […]
By Charly SHELTON “Whereas April is widely recognized as the month of commemoration for global communities that have been affected by man’s inhumanity to man as they mourn the Armenian genocide, European Holocaust, Cambodian genocide, Rwandan genocide and the start of the Bosnian war, which led to the start of the Srebrenica genocide, whereas Glendale, […]
It was a fun afternoon of eclectic questions and even more eclectic answers when participants of the 28th Annual Smart-A-Thon 2016 exercised local knowledge while funding a community organization. The afternoon of brain teasing questions was all to benefit The Mary Pinola and Crescenta Valley Chamber Education Fund. Twenty-nine teams participated in the event. […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Recently there was a story on social media concerning a scam involving a fake kidnapping. The caller contacted the victim stating they had kidnapped her daughter, who is apparently screaming for help in the background. The victim is obviously distraught as the caller continued to threaten her daughter and demanding a ransom […]
A police helicopter made an emergency landing at Montrose Community Park on Saturday evening. “The cause of the emergency landing is under investigation,” according to Glendale Police Dept. spokeswoman Tahnee Lightfoot.
Rep. Adam Schiff named local residents Pat Anderson, Kimberly Holland and Jamie Keyser Thomas among his choices for 2016 women of the year. “I met with women with varying backgrounds and interests, who have all worked tirelessly to make our communities a better place to call home. It was an honor to recognize their […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) out of the Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s Station held a training drill recently at St. Luke’s of the Mountains. CERT trains community members in disaster preparedness in order to have an organized response in emergency situations. Coordinators Paul and Lisa Dutton taught the class how to respond […]
Crescenta Valley High School JROTC Honor Guard members (from left) Frederick Stepanian, junior, Cadet Capt. Jun Lee, senior, Kiersten Yoon, senior and Grace Kim, junior, received a $3,000 donation from American Legion Post 288 and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1614. Making the check presentation were American Legion Commander Gerry Collins, VFW Commander Jerry […]