Tonight, Thursday, Jan. 20 at the La Cañada Flintridge Country Club located at 5500 Godbey Drive in La Cañada, the Montrose Verdugo City Chamber of Commerce cordially invites you to attend the 2011 Annual Installation and Community Awards Dinner. Cocktail hour is at 6 p.m. and the dinner starts at 7 p.m. This year we […]
By Mary O’KEEFE They are the first to walk out into a busy street full of drivers that are seemingly all in a hurry. They are armed only with a handheld stop sign and a yellow vest. These are the crossing guards that have become so much a part of the elementary school landscape that […]
By Mary O’KEEFE At about 4 a.m. Saturday morning there was a call to Glendale police reporting a stabbing in the 3700 block of Altura Avenue in La Crescenta. Officials said that the stabbing occurred during a party. The victim, a male in his 20s, was not critically injured and was not transported to a […]
By Charly SHELTON Ladies and Gentlemen, Welcome to the Future! The Crescenta Valley Weekly has added a feature to the newspaper to allow better connectivity to our website. This is a QR code. QR, Quick Response code, is, essentially, a barcode. Many computers and Smartphones have the Barcode Scanner feature that allows them to read […]
By Ted AYALA With rumors about the untimely demise Verdugo Hills Golf Course (VHGC) rampant across the Foothills communities, VHGC manager John Mascarenas wanted to reach out to the community to straighten out the story of the VHGC’s future. “We’re still going – and we’re not going anywhere,” said Masacarenas. “A lot of newspapers just […]
By Sue KILPATRICK “No person has the right to rain on your dreams.” — Martin Luther King Jr. The gradual return of clear skies this week, compared to our previous rainy ones, is a reminder of what a Crescenta Valley winter is normally- a lot of sunshine and placid blue skies, with a few wet […]
While the investigation into ADI continues – and we, too, will be following its progress – I have to say thanks to the many folks who have taken the time to comment on the coverage provided by CV Weekly. Mary O’Keefe has been working diligently in gathering the facts and her story last week was […]
By Ted AYALA With barely enough time to remove one’s coat, the Glendale City Council held an atypically brief council meeting on Tuesday evening. Not that the issues on Jan. 11 were dealt with flippantly by the members of the council. All members, save for Frank Quintero, were present. Mayor Ara Najarian, together with the […]
Announcements from newly installed governor make good on budget cutting promises. By Jason KUROSU Governor Jerry Brown unveiled his budget plan Monday, a budget rife with cuts and plans to increase taxes in order to combat a ballooning deficit. The billions in cuts might have come as a shock to some if not for Brown’s […]
“When there is talk of violence let us up stand up and talk against it. In the face of death let us honor life.” President Bill Clinton’s speech after the Oklahoma bombing. “In this trial we have been reminded and the world has seen that our fellow Americans are generous and kind resourceful and brave.” […]