A clean and safer neighborhood

By Mary O’KEEFE Neighbors and friends in the Canyonside area of La Crescenta spent four hours on Saturday pulling weeds, cutting trees and making their neighborhood safer. A clean-up day sponsored by the Crescenta Valley Fire Safe Council was as much about education as it was the clearing of dry vegetation that would give fuel […]

obituary – Joseph A. Hud

Joseph A. Hud, age 83, passed away Aug. 27 in Montrose. Joseph Hud was born in Butte, Mont. and has lived in Sunland for the past 50 years. Joseph was a field inspector with the USDA & Calif. Dept. of Agriculture for over 25 years. He is survived by his wife Helen of Sunland; two […]

Waltonia traffic problems continue

By Mary O’KEEFE Waltonia Drive residents once again are dealing with battered vehicles after another drunk driver lost control and smashed into parked cars. On Aug. 19 at 4:20 p.m. a Waltonia resident heard a crunching sound in front of her home.  According to the resident, her roommate was home when the accident in the […]

Crime blotter

August 31 800 block of Foothill Boulevard in La Cañada Flintridge, the front glass door was shattered and several pieces of jewelry were stolen from Euro Jewelers reported at 12:40 a.m. 1100 block of Oro Vista in Angeles National Forest, a 57-year-old Tujunga man was arrested on suspicion of possession a controlled substance believed to […]

Residents remember Station Fire with clean up day

By Mary O’KEEFE One year after the Station Fire residents in the Canyonside area of La Crescenta gathered to remember the two Los Angeles County firefighters who lost their lives fighting the blaze and to apply lessons learned from the wildfire that cut a path through their mountainside neighborhood. About 50 people began Saturday morning […]

Norma Ellis honored by the Pasadena-Foothills Association Of Realtors

“It is with a great deal of enthusiasm and pride that we congratulate Norma Ellis, sales partner with our La Crescenta office,” said Dilbeck president Mark Dilbeck. The occasion was to honor Ellis with the Emeritus Award by the Pasadena-Foothills Association of Realtors (PFAR) at a recent Leadership Breakfast. She, along with Jane Caughey and […]

SCORE to bring shredder to Expo

The joint sponsors of the 10th Annual Foothills Community Expo on Sept. 8 announce the return of a popular community service. SCORE, Counselors to America’s Small Businesses, will bring a mobile shredding truck to the Community Expo. Residents and businesses can bring no longer needed documents (up to seven boxes per attendee) to be shredded […]

Designing gardens with an Artful Eye

By Odalis A. SUAREZ For Cindy Jackson, standing in front of an empty lawn is like standing in front of a blank canvas ready to be turned into a masterpiece. Taking gardening to an artistic level is the idea behind her landscaping business The Artful Eye. “That’s what the artist is, this eye that perceives […]