The Crescenta-Cañada YMCA Dragon Swim Team finished off its YMCA League season by facing off against eight other Southern California Y teams this past weekend. Propelled by stellar individual efforts, great relay performances, and outstanding coaching; the Dragons dominated the team point tally to take the number one spot at the championship meet. Harrison Thai […]
My Thoughts, Exactly –Jim Chase I spent the better part of two hours a couple of weeks ago waiting for my wife’s delayed flight to come in to LAX. At least I think it was two hours. Like so many people these days, I stopped wearing a wristwatch years ago. Who needs one? Every cell […]
Treasures of the Valley –Mike Lawler This Saturday, March 13 at 1 p.m. there will be a free screening of John Newcombe’s latest film, “Winnetka Story,” the history of Chicago’s North Shore, at the La Crescenta Library. John’s previous film, the award-winning “Rancho La Cañada”, is about the history of the Crescenta-Cañada Valley. I’d like […]
by Mary O’KEEFE A 20-year-old man from La Cañada was arrested after a La Crescenta Ralphs market employee witnessed him walking out of the store with items not paid for. According to the Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s Station report, the employee allegedly watched the man exit the store with items under his jacket. He followed the […]
March 8 2200 block of Foothill Boulevard in La Cañada Flintridge, the front driver’s side window was shattered and a laptop was stolen from a vehicle parked in the west parking lot of Yuki Yama restaurant between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. March 7 2300 block of Florencita Avenue in Montrose, a bicycle was stolen […]
By Mary O’Keefe Two men were arrested after a witness allegedly saw them going through a car in a La Crescenta neighborhood. A witness reported seeing the interior light on in a vehicle parked in the 3500 block of Henrietta Avenue at 11 p.m. on March 5. He noticed someone moving around in the car, […]
By Mary O’Keefe On Monday the Supreme Court of the United States agreed to review a Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals injunction that temporarily banned background checks of Jet Propulsion Laboratory employees. In August 2007, 28 scientists and engineers from JPL filed suit against NASA for its newly required background checks. The employees contend […]
By Mary O’Keefe After two weeks of postponing a car wash benefitting the Joo Lee memorial fund, the event is finally scheduled on a weekend without rain. This Saturday, several student service clubs from Crescenta Valley High School will join forces to have the car wash at the school’s overflow parking lot on Ramsdell Avenue […]
Robin GOLDSWORTHY These past couple of weeks the nation has mourned with the families who have lost their beloved daughters. Chelsea King, 17, and Amber Dubois, 14, were active in their community, strong students and socially connected. These were not “troublemakers.” This week, Mary O’Keefe writes about the importance of we parents talking to our […]
By Geghard ARAKELIAN A group of American Armenian police officers with the Glendale Police Department –Vahak Mardikian, Tigran Topadzhikyan, Robert Parseghian, John Balian and Benny Simonzad – in January filed a discrimination suit against the GPD and about 30 individual employees of the department. While the trial is pending, their lawyer Carney Shegerian and city […]