Voting is less than a month away here in Montrose, Verdugo City and La Crescenta. It’s time to meet your candidates, read up on the special ballot measures and be prepared to make an informed choice. So many times I have gone to cast my ballot to fill political seats or vote on bonds and […]
St. Patrick’s Day has come to be associated with everything Irish, anything green and gold, shamrocks and luck. What is luck? Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia, says: “Luck is good or bad fortune in life caused by accident or chance, and attributed by some to reasons of faith or superstition, which happens beyond a person’s […]
Study Ranks Hospital in Top 1% in the Nation for 5 years in a row. Glendale Memorial Hospital and Health Center announced that its superior clinical quality has again placed it among an elite group of U.S. hospitals: HealthGrades America’s 50 Best Hospitals. Each year, only 50 of America’s 5,000 hospitals are recognized with this […]
In its efforts to protect the environment, Foothill Car Wash, Lube Oil & Detail Center has recently installed a massive solar system. The system is expected to generate 60% of electricity used by the car wash and may even feed some power back to the grid when the business is closed or slow. This solar […]
By Mary O’KEEFE & Brandon HENSLEY The vibrations of the Japanese earthquake and subsequent tsunami have resonated here in the United States as local folks wait to hear how friends and family abroad are faring in the aftermath of the disaster. Erika Suzuki was a member of the executive board of the Crescenta Valley Drug […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The Crescenta Valley Sheriffs want to make the public aware of a possible predator that approached a young girl on Tuesday evening in the Waltonia Drive area of Montrose. On Tuesday at about 9 p.m. the 9-year-old girl was walking her dog on Waltonia Drive near Ocean View Boulevard. A newer model, […]
By Alan Der OHANNESSIAN In Falcon volleyball, CV won 3 sets to 1 in their league opening match against San Marino on March 9. Having won their last match against Van Nuys during the Redondo pre-season tournament, the Falcons were confident heading into the contest. It was the best of five: the winner of the […]
By Alan Der OHANNESSIAN The Falcons boys tennis continued their losing streak, bowing to Burbank 12-6 on Tuesday, March 8. Having lost two series in a row to Valencia and Hoover (see below for a recap of Hoover’s contest), the Falcons were trying to get in the winning column. In boy’s singles, number one Chris […]
By Ted AYALA Affairs of municipal governance tend to be rather genteel affairs that tend to avoid the fire and rhetoric of politics at the state and federal levels. So it was a surprise to see the atmosphere grow tense and angry in the Glendale City Council chamber last Tuesday night in response to a […]
By Mary O’KEEFE “It sounded like an explosion.” “You could see the big ball of [light] arc at the power pole.” Those were some of the comments from witnesses of the dump truck that came barreling down Briggs Avenue and landed side down in Pickens Canyon Park on Tuesday morning. Truck driver Wilbur Rivas, 24, […]