Meet Ivy Hopper

Meet Ivy Hopper

Ivy Hopper is a teen columnist who talks with authors and fans of books that are currently being read by today’s youth. This week Matt Shively, Nickelodeon’s True Jackson, VP chats with Ivy about his broken heart. Matt and I talked about a breakup code that is in the novel The Heartbreakers by Pamela Wells. […]

Honoring our nation’s veterans

Honoring our nation’s veterans

This Veterans Day we paid tribute to the bravery and sacrifice of our veterans.  With over two million veterans in California alone, we have a duty to the men and women who defended our nation to ensure that they have access to the services they deserve.  That is why I recently voted to provide $76.5 […]

Getting a (sur)charge out of life

Getting a (sur)charge out of life

This is getting ridiculous. It was bad enough when the airlines started charging hefty fees for each piece of luggage. And that was after they had already figured out they could charge for meals, drinks, pillows, blankets and headsets. Sigh. I wonder how long until they realize they can charge a toll for access to […]

A Trader Joe’s with good parking?

A Trader Joe’s  with good parking?

Not likely. Parking woes seem to be a trademark of Trader Joe’s grocery stores and we’ll have to wait to see if that will be true of our new store in Montrose. I sat down recently with Mike Morgan, vice president of the Montrose/Verdugo City/Sparr Heights Neighborhood Association, to find out what the latest word […]

Letters to the Editor

HAS AN ANSWER FOR WHAT NOW? Mike Lawler’s attempt to conceal St. Luke’s on-going history of the congregation’s relationship with a denomination that openly approves of homosexuality is most regretful. The church members are aligned with heretical clergy  which concedes to the worldly whims of this breach with true Christian doctrine. Such leaders destroy the […]

CRIME BLOTTER

Nov. 9 Foothill Boulevard and Oak Grove Drive in La Cañada, Jose DeLaCruz, 23, and Cipriano Flores, 52, both of Altadena were arrested after deputies responded to a call from a driver reporting a vehicle apparently attempting to run her off the road.  According to the report, the driver was traveling northbound on Oak Grove […]

Robbery arrest made in Montrose

By Mary O’KEEFE Glendale Police are asking for any witnesses who may have seen a robbery on Sunday afternoon in Montrose. The incident began about noon when witnesses called police to report two men involved in an apparent robbery in progress in a parking lot in the 2300 block of Honolulu Avenue. By the time […]

Just another day in Crescenta Valley

It wasn’t part of the television episode being filmed on Foothill Boulevard although it may have seemed like it when a report of a topless woman walking up the street came into the Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s Station on Monday. The call first came in about 9:50 a.m. of the woman in the area of Prospect […]