Portantino Appointed to Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy Advisory Committee

  Mayor Steve Del Guercio announced that he has appointed former Assemblymember Anthony Portantino to the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy Advisory Committee to represent the City of La Cañada Flintridge. Portantino succeeds City Councilmember Donald Voss, who has stepped down from the Committee after over four years of service. “Don’s excellent work on the Advisory […]

Rewards Extended by LA County

         On a motion by Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich, the Board of Supervisors extended the $10,000 reward in exchange for any information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of the person responsible for the fatal shooting of Daniel Dotson on November 24, 2010 in Palmdale. On November 24, 2010, at approximately 11:00 […]

Rep. Schiff Urges Agreement on a Bipartisan, Balanced Plan to Avert Sequestration Cuts

Rep. Adam Schiff  called on the Speaker to help avert the dangerous across-the-board cuts that would result from sequestration, scheduled to kick in on March 1st.  On Sunday night, the White House released a report laying out the direct cuts that would affect Californians.  Schiff believes that Congress must take swift action on a balanced plan to stop […]

Schiff Open House

Rep. Adam Schiff  announced that due to redistricting, he has moved his district office from Pasadena to Burbank. As mandated by the Constitution, California underwent a decennial redistricting period last year based on the 2010 Census, and as a result, the federal district boundaries have shifted and representation for local areas has changed.  California chose […]

IN Brief

CV Town Council Agenda On the agenda of the Crescenta Valley Town Council meeting tonight, Feb. 21, is a presentation by Paul Rabinov and Frank Colcord from the Friends of Rosemont Preserve, news from the Youth Council, an update on the council’s R1-Survey, a reminder of the Feb. 27 community meeting on the 710 tunnel […]

Volunteers Work to Restore Trails and Keep Them Safe

By Maddy PUMILA Volunteers from the community are joining together to keep local trails safe and restoring damaged trails. The Community Services & Parks Dept. of Glendale is working with Glendale police and fire personnel to launch the volunteer Glendale Trail Safety Patrol. The patrol will assist the City of Glendale, which owns about 5,000 […]

Weather in the Foothills

“And how fascinating history is – the long, variegated pageant of man’s still continuing evolution of this strange planet, so much the most interesting of all the myriads of spinners through space.” ~ George Macaulay Trevelyan, English writer and historian (1876-1962) An asteroid, a meteor, President George Washington’s birthday and celebrating Montrose’s centennial. Whether scientific […]

from the desk of the publisher

Montrose and Menopause Along with many of our local residents and businesses, I’m anticipating an exciting weekend celebrating the birth of Montrose that occurred 100 years ago. Organizers have planned a two-day celebration that includes everything from carnival rides to a barbecue – a nod to founders J. Frank Walters and Robert Walton who hosted […]

Celebrating Montrose’s Centennial

Everything from a barbecue to trick roping guarantees a weekend of memory building. By Mary O’KEEFE Montrose is celebrating 100 years and the party will be all weekend long. The 2200 and 2300 blocks of Honolulu Avenue will be closed on Saturday and Sunday to accommodate two stages and lots of entertainment. The weekend is […]

Saturday Night Collision Snarls Traffic

By Michael J. ARVIZU There were no injuries or fatalities in a solo tractor-trailer collision at the intersection of Fenwick Street and Sunland Boulevard in Sunland on Saturday night. The fully loaded truck was on its way from Yuma, Ariz. to Salinas, Calif. when it lost its breaks while parked at the top of the […]