Last weekend, if you remember, was the annual Foothills Relay for Life event held at Clark Magnet High School. As I have for the last four years, I was onsite for most of the 24 hours. It was particularly important to me to be there to witness the survivors’ walk, the first lap on Saturday […]
From War to Reconciliation – Moving On and Moving West The Little Landers Historical Society and the Historical Society of Crescenta Valley are hosting a special Civil War presentation. Attendees will hear the stories of Civil War veterans who came west after their service and settled in Sunland/Tujunga and the Crescenta Valley. A Civil War […]
By Jackie HOUCHIN When Tim Morelli, owner of Bonner’s Equipment Rental in Tujunga, got a call from his friend Rhett Walker asking him to join a volunteer team headed to Alabama to help tornado victims, he quickly agreed. Less than 48 hours later he was winging his way to the disaster area with nine other […]
By Brandon HENSLEY To say it has been a while since Marcia Warfield Flannery stepped foot in La Crescenta would be an understatement the size of one of those boulders that came crashing into her home 77 years ago. The floods on New Year’s Eve in 1933 ripped through the Crescenta Valley, devastating the area, […]
May 17 5800 block of Ocean View Boulevard in La Cañada, a woman reported that while she was looking out her kitchen window she witnessed a man running out of her garage. She immediately went outside and saw the man get into a vehicle described as a dark blue, four-door Honda Civic. The man drove […]
Assemblymember Anthony Portantino (D-La Cañada Flintridge) and the California Department of Fish and Game will convene a public safety forum to discuss safety measures when living near bears and other wildlife. Area residents have reported several recent bear sightings in the La Cañada-La Crescenta area and neighbors are asking for information on how to respond. […]
By Jason KUROSU It was a victorius luncheon enjoyed by supporters of Measure S who came out en masse to celebrate its passage at the Oakmont Country Club on Wednesday, May 11. Just over a month had passed since Measure S was decidedly voted in (the measure passed with 69.9% of the total vote while […]
Retired Rosemont Middle School history teacher Lynn McGinnis told me recently that he was walking in the Montrose area, and came on a family gathered around a streetlight, one of them crouched down examining the base of the lamppost. Lynn said he knew what was up immediately, as it’s an issue that gets ugly in […]
Last week when we left our tale of the uninvited Mother’s Day visitor (a big rat, in case you missed it), my wife and I continued on with brunch preparations for our human guests – thinking that we had trapped the crafty critter upstairs in our bedroom behind closed doors. But no-o-o-o. As I would […]
Memorial Day Celebration I rarely speak publicly about my military experience in Viet Nam because I feel lucky to be one of the soldiers who returned home in one piece and in sound mind. I was in my early 20s, naive and fresh out of college, when I volunteered for the army. The politicians call […]