By Erna TAYLOR STARK Mandie Jones is a contestant in the Donald Trump Miss Teen California USA Pageant 2011 At first glance, Mandie Jones looks like a typical, pretty teenager. However, she is all dressed up in daytime finery, sporting her pink Miss Teen Glendale banner, full makeup and heels on a very hot day […]
MARKET ASSESSMENT Mary Dawson’s article regarding the Sunday Montrose Harvest Market [“Summer Bounty at the Montrose Harvest Market,” July 22] was on the money. Besides what the vendors sell there are some wonderful people who work there. Louie the avocado man will sell you right on ripe fruit or one that you can wait a […]
A whole year, already? Has it really been a year since the first tendrils of smoke curled skyward near the ranger station up Angeles Crest Highway? Since the gathering sirens of first responders broke the late summer stillness that usually hangs heavily over the Crescenta Valley? Looking at the hills above us, you’d think the […]
Let’s get back to our story on the Verdugo Hills Golf Course and its previous incarnation as WWII enemy alien camp. Conditions in the camp were good by wartime standards, particularly to a population that was used to Depression era privations. The prisoners were allowed free range of the enclosure, exercise was encouraged, and some, […]
By Mary O’KEEFE “We didn’t know that on that day, Aug. 26, this fire would be the largest in Los Angeles County’s history,” said Bat. Chief Mike Brown Wednesday of the Los Angeles County Fire Department’s Station 82. One year ago today at 3:30 p.m. the fire that Crescenta Valley residents had been warned about […]
By Brandon HENSLEY Richard Atwater, a former Crescenta Valley Water District board member, has been appointed as the new executive director of the Southern California Water Committee. In its press release sent Monday, the committee said Atwater was chosen after an extensive search. He replaces interim director Ron Gastelum, who will still be active in […]
By Rachel KANE Glendale Unified School District officials and Glendale Teachers Association representatives reached a tentative agreement Tuesday on contract negotiations regarding the 2010-2011 and 2012-2013 school years. The agreement comes on the heels of the release of an independent fact-finding panel’s advisory report, released to the district and the teachers association on Aug. 17 […]
Before, During and After the Station Fire The Historical Society of Crescenta Valley will be noting the anniversary of the Station Fire with a photo exhibition of “Deukmejian Park – Before During and After the Station Fire.” An opening reception will take place on Thursday from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the La Crescenta […]
By Odalis A. SUAREZ After the destructive Station Fire last year, canyon neighbors are refusing to let another wildfire ignite without taking precautionary measures. Spearheading this initiative are residents of Briggs Terrace who will be hosting a cleanup in their community this Saturday, Aug. 28 on upper Canyonside Road. “We’ve had so much help from […]
The estimated total cost of the 2009 county wildfires and subsequent floods and land slippage was $201 million, the board of supervisors learned Tuesday. Of the total, $60.3 million has been spent through August, with work continuing. Much of the cost will be reimbursed by the state and federal governments under the continuing state of […]