Happy Trails

Last Friday, my wife and our home-from-Montana-for-the-summer son made an early evening escape 300 miles up Hwy 395 to Mammoth Lakes. Due to the reality of too much work and not enough vacation time, our stay was limited to the weekend. Still, we managed to come back to the Crescenta Valley Sunday night filthy, sunburned, […]

The Height Fight on Foothill

Can you envision Foothill Boulevard as a canyon of office towers? A little extreme perhaps, but a distinct possibility in a planning document currently being designed by the City of Glendale. The “North Glendale Community Plan” will guide future development in the Glendale portion of Foothill Boulevard, and a 50-foot building height limit is currently […]

LETTERs TO THE EDITOR

Shares the Joy I wish to commend Jim Chase on his CV Weekly article “Summer Job or Summer School?” [My Thoughts Exactly, Aug. 4]. I find it hard to express how proud I am of his son. As an 18-year-old teen, I gave my heart to Jesus at a youth camp in Colorado. I am […]

Offers Perspective on Community Plan for North Glendale

Glendale planners have been working with a 30-plus member committee to draft a Community Plan for North Glendale. It is working its way through boards and commissions and will have a hearing at the Planning Commission meeting of Aug. 17 (see the city’s website for details www.ci.glendale.ca.us/planning/default.asp). I appreciate all the work staff and fellow […]

Booking It

After years of struggle and sagging profits, the discount bookstore giant has finally fallen. Borders Books, whose Glendale store has been a local staple for years, was forced to succumb to its flaws and wave the white flag to the competition and the Kindle. Its death presents more questions than it answers. Will Barnes and […]

They can be Found Pedaling a Long Way from Home

By Maddy PUMILIA Twelve teenagers, along with two 22-year-old leaders, who left Savannah, Ga. on bicycle on June 25 made a stop at Vons Market in Montrose before heading on to Santa Monica on Friday afternoon. The teens, aged 15 to 17 years, have biked more than 3,000 miles. They are part of a summer […]

Young Republicans to Host Memorial Event

Members of the Young Republicans of La Cañada Flintridge, led by its president Alexander Keledjian, will lead the community in a memorial to the victims of Sept. 11, 2001. The memorial will be held in the courtyard of La Cañada Presbyterian Church at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 11. This special event is being hosted […]

The Killzone

Leah Gagliardi was born with a hole in her heart. Now she tears holes in opposing defenses. By Brandon HENSLEY It hasn’t started yet, but it’s coming. The server throws the ball up in the air, extends her shoulder and whacks it across the net to the other side, where it meets the middle back. […]

Wine, Gifts and Good Time Found At LCWC Event

By Brandon HENSLEY As audacious as it might sound, if there was one positive to come out of the Station Fire, Dawna Berger has an idea of what it would be. On Saturday evening at the Wine Cave in Montrose Shopping Park, it sat on a table, corked and bottled, ready to be taken in […]

Staff, Friends Turn Out for Milestone Birthday

By Maddy PUMILIA There are certain birthdays that are milestones in people’s lives: 16 (being able to drive), 18 (being able to vote, join the military or buy lottery tickets) and 21 (being able to gamble in Vegas or being able to drink). But there’s one birthday most still strive for: turning 100 years old. […]