By Brian CHERNICK The steps to Glendale City Hall are getting a make-over after Glendale City Councilmembers voted to remove and replace the 75-year-old entry way steps with brand new concrete. The Dept. of Public Works and its staff prepared a report for council, advising it to allow the rehabilitation of the steps after numerous […]
By Brian CHERNICK A petition was delivered to City Council during Tuesday night’s meeting that calls for establishing a rent stabilization ordinance, or rent control, in Glendale. The petition – which appears to have garnered over 11,000 signatures – was initiated by members of the Glendale Tenants Union that established itself earlier this year. A […]
By Brian CHERNICK On Tuesday’s meeting of the Glendale City Council, the council voted 3-2 to sustain the Planning Commission’s recommendation to deny subdividing a 2.22-acre lot on Aspen Oak and Rimcrest Drive in Glendale’s Hillside neighborhood. The recommendation in December by the city’s five-member Planning Commission was originally considered by just three Commission members. […]
By Brian CHERNICK The Sept. 12 meeting of the Glendale City Council marked a small victory for the historical preservation of Glendale. The council, reduced to four members for three consecutive weeks because of the planned absence by councilmember Zareh Sinanyan, voted unanimously to place three out of five properties on the Glendale Register of […]
By Brian CHERNICK Glendale and Eagle Rock residents showed up in large numbers at the Sept. 5 Glendale City Council meeting to express their concerns regarding the future of the Scholl Canyon Landfill and its possible expansion. Located in the southeast of Glendale, bordering Pasadena and Eagle Rock just above the 134, the 56-year-old integrated […]
By Brian CHERNICK After more than four hours of hearings, deliberations and two hold-out votes, a new hotel in the heart of downtown Glendale was approved with a number of exceptions that go beyond the city’s land use ordinances and standards. Hotel Louise – the proposed new hotel on the southwest corner of Louise and […]
Glendale police are asking for the public’s help with information concerning a residential burglary that occurred on Wednesday morning at about 10 a.m. in the 3500 block of Santa Carlotta Street. The suspect’s vehicle is described as a black 2007 four-door Toyota Corolla with dark black tinted windows. Detectives are requesting residents in the area […]
By Nestor CASTIGLIONE Glendale will be celebrating the birthday of a very special member of the community this weekend, which has aged so gracefully that one would never guess it’s only a few years shy of the century mark. The Alex Theatre, the crown jewel of Glendale’s cultural life, will be holding a bash for […]
By Brian CHERNICK Ronnie Gharibian and Zanku Armenian were appointed to the Community Development Block Grant Advisory Committee during Tuesday night’s Glendale City Council meeting. Alejandro Parajon was appointed to the Audit Committee and Lynda Burns to the Commission on the Status of Women. Councilmember Vrej Agajanian expressed his concerns, which were backed by Sinanyan, […]
Adventist Health Glendale has been recognized as one of the best hospitals by U.S. News & World Report for 2017-18 in three types of care: orthopedics, geriatrics and neurology & neurosurgery, and in two adult conditions, including chronic heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Adventist Health Glendale was regionally ranked as number 16 in […]