By Celia BURSTEIN Nareh Hovhannisian, a senior at Clark Magnet High School, has wanted to make a music album for four years. This year, the senior project gave her the opportunity to pursue this dream. “It took a lot of time, and I wouldn’t have done it if it weren’t a part of my schoolwork,” […]
Offer Ideas for Rockhaven I would like to offer a suggestion for Rockhaven as the city proceeds with its preliminary plans. Rockhaven, with its sprawling, treed grounds, provided a sanctuary for women who needed care and compassion. It was conceived of and existed as an alternative that was superior to what was available for mental […]
» Jim Chase Our daughter and son-in-law will be having their first baby just about one month from today. Although it will be our fourth grandchild, it will be the first to live within an easy drive from us. You see, our other three grand-munchkins live heart-wrenchingly far away in Hawaii. My wife and I […]
It is my ultimate frustration as a local historian to have such a wealth of information on our last two centuries in CV, yet have almost nothing on the thousands of years of human history before that. Our first inhabitants, the Tongva Indians, hunted, camped, established villages, lived entire lives of tragedy and triumph, right […]
By Charles COOPER An attempt by the city to revoke the conditional use permit for Urartu Restaurant at 3463 Foothill Blvd. will be presented next week before a planning hearing officer. The issue was supposed to be decided on Wednesday, but was delayed a week at the request of owner Serob Serobyan. His representative said […]
By Shari EMAMI Joycie Dungca and Stevie Weatherby are in love. The couple met in 2001 while taking a music business course. Over the years, they broke up and got back together on a few occasions. However, when Stevie was sick, it was Joycie who came to his house with ice cream. Stevie was the […]
By Mary O’KEEFE This weekend shoppers and artists will meet on common ground along Honolulu Avenue in the Montrose Shopping Park as they have for the last 27 years. The Annual Montrose Arts and Crafts Festival is well known to artists throughout several western states as the place to show and sell their art and […]
By Shari EMAMI At the Vietnam War Memorial at Honolulu Avenue and Ocean View Boulevard, guests took part in the 42nd Memorial Day service. The ceremony was co-hosted by the Montrose Shopping Park Association and the Montrose-Verdugo City Chamber of Commerce. Not only were Vietnam War soldiers honored but local residents who served and perished […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The Crescenta Valley High School JROTC along with representatives from the American Legion Post 288 and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1614 held a flag retirement ceremony at the high school on Tuesday afternoon. The annual event is a way to dispose of tattered American flags in a respectful and honorable manner. […]
By Shari EMAMI About 100 Glendale community members, neighbors and teachers gathered outside the home of school board president Greg Krikorian on Wednesday evening, May 26, to silently protest the school board’s recently proposed 50% increase in class size and teacher layoffs in response to budget cuts. The Glendale Teachers Association held the vigil, handing […]