As of 8 a.m. all mandatory evacuations have been lifted, according to Sgt. John Caffrey, Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s Station. “We are now doing soft closures. Residents with identification have access to and from their homes. We are asking all residents to park in their driveway to allow [public works] to clean the streets,” Caffrey said. […]
I got a couple of calls last week from concerned locals about the disappearance of the little decorative well at the entrance to the Indian Springs Shopping Center on Verdugo Road, just east of Montrose. Man, I love that kind of vigilance! The first sign of a community in peril is the unchallenged demolition of […]
By Mary O’Keefe Crescenta Valley is being hit with a second rainstorm today, Saturday that is expected to last through this evening. A flash flood warning for the Station Fire area is in affect until 5:15 a.m. Saturday, said Curt Kaplan, meteorologist with the National Weather Service. “In some areas near the Station Fire the […]
By Mary O’KEEFE After 50 years of teaching Rosemont Middle School students, math teacher Jack Silberstein is retiring. “I am honored to be with this ensemble of brain power, mega ton, mega width brain power here. I am so humbled and so privilege to have [worked with you] and to have learned so much from […]
Feb. 1 1500 block of Foothill Boulevard in La Cañada Flintridge, a 24-year-old La Cañada man was arrested for taking a can of beer out of the La Cañada Liquor store. According to the sheriff’s report, an employee witnessed a man taking the can of beer from the refrigerated compartment in the store. He walked […]
By Mary O’Keefe A car chase that began with an armed robbery in Burbank raced through Sunland, Crescenta Valley and ended at the Americana in Glendale. The saga began at a liquor store in the 2000 block of North Glenoaks, Burbank. The employee of the store noticed a suspicious man, later identified as Alexander Moya, […]
After years in the planning and building, the Crescenta Valley boasts a library that establishes a true town center. By Mary O’Keefe With a crowd of community members and public officials and the cutting of a ribbon, the La Crescenta Library was officially opened last Friday, Jan. 29. “It is our hope that this library […]
By Mary O’KEEFE On Jan. 19 Crescenta Valley Water District director Richard Atwater sent his letter of resignation to the CVWD stating he would no longer be able to hold his office on the board due to a complaint by a community member. Atwater’s letter of resignation stated that in “early December an anonymous person […]
By Shana LiVIGNI Statements of belief: “Lutherans believe in the Triune God. God created and loves all of creation – the earth and the seas and all of the world’s inhabitants. We believe that God’s Son, Jesus Christ, transforms lives through his death on the cross and his new life, and we trust that God’s […]
By Susan JAMES “The Last Station,” written and directed by Michael Hoffman, is a pip of a movie about the power struggle between Russian writer Leo Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer), his wife of 48 years Sofiya (Helen Mirren) and the unctuous Vladimir Chertkov, played with convincing cunning by Paul Giametti. Channeling the 1968 classic, “The Lion […]