By Mary O’KEEFE The new Glendale police chief has wanted to be part of his hometown police force since he went on a ride-a-long with Glendale police while he was attending college. Ronald DePompa was officially installed as Glendale Chief of Police last week. He had been working as interim chief since former police chief […]
CV Town Council president Steve Pierce, with two other council members, will end their terms of service tonight. By Mary O’KEEFE The Crescenta Valley Town Council will conduct its monthly meeting at 7 p.m. tonight, Thursday, Dec. 17 in the cafeteria at Rosemont Middle School. During the meeting the council will install three recently elected […]
By Mary O’KEEFE After choosing a project, raising funds, earning two badges and reaching out to the community on a Sunday morning at the Harvest Market, members of Girl Scout Troop 680-1 saw their hard work pay off with the receipt of their Bronze Award. Part of the Bronze Award requirements is the completion by […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Parents of children beginning kindergarten in 2010-11 at Mountain Avenue Elementary are invited to visit the school on Dec. 18. “It is an opportunity for our community to come and visit our kindergarten classrooms for the day and find out what we have to offer,” said Principal Rebeca Witt. Parents are invited […]
A fun game my oldest daughter likes to play is to call the freeways of L.A. by their true names. For instance, if we want to get to the beach from La Crescenta, we have a lot of options. We might take the Ronald Reagan Freeway (118) and cut over toward the coast on the […]
Tradition is more than a song the character Tevye sings in the acclaimed Broadway musical, Fiddler on the Roof. All you have to do is live or work in the Crescenta Valley this time of year to see and enjoy evidence of many of our own local traditions that take many shapes and forms. At […]
ivyhopper@gmail.com Ivy Hopper is a teen columnist who talks with authors and fans of books that are currently being read by today’s youth. Hey, girls! I want you to go see a play called “Baby It’s You!” It is playing at Pasadena Playhouse, 39 S. El Molino Ave., Pasadena at 8 p.m. Tuesdays-Fridays, 4 and […]
Shana LiVIGNI Light on the Corner church is home to a small congregation, “a family” as Pastor Jon Karn calls it, and is a self-proclaimed unique and unusually friendly congregation of people who have decided to follow Jesus. It has big dreams and an even bigger God who has promised to love, forgive and walk […]
Dec. 9 2400 block of Florencita Drive in La Crescenta, a stereo was stolen from the dash of a vehicle between Nov. 29 andDec. 2. Dec. 4 1100 block of Green Lane in La Cañada Flintridge, the driver’s side rear panel of a vehicle was vandalized overnight. Dec. 3 2900 block of Community Avenue in […]
Glendale Assemblyman Paul Krekorian changed jobs Tuesday, easily winning election to the Los Angeles City Council. Krekorian, who is completing his second term in the legislature, beat the rush in lining up a new job since he would have been term limited out in 2012. The Burbank area Democrat who moved into Los Angeles to […]