Two Burbank Men Charged with Murder of Nicholas Carter

Update Feb. 14 – 4:30 p.m. –  It appeared that Nicolas Carter was murdered elsewhere then transported to the Big Tujunga Canyon area, said Lt. Mike Orsson, LASD.  It is alleged that while the suspects were digging the first grave, it filled with water forcing the pair to move a little farther where they dug […]

Get Ready to Conserve

By Mary O’KEEFE Local residents will be asked to increase their water conservation efforts from Feb. 21 to Feb. 28 as a major supply line from Metropolitan Water District is repaired. Foothill Municipal Water District and Crescenta Valley Water District receive their imported water from Metropolitan Water District.  The upper feeder system will be shut […]

The Face(s) of Montrose

By Tyler BIDDLE and Charly SHELTON Wanda Bergstrom can be found most days at City Hall Coffee Shop on Honolulu Avenue in the Montrose Shopping Park where she has worked for over 40 years, becoming something of a celebrity to the community. “These are the reasons I can’t quit,” she said, gesturing to the morning […]

IN Brief

Author Art Cobery at Glendale Library As Crescenta Valley residents gathered to ring in the 1934 New Year, a cloudburst broke over Southern California’s San Gabriel Mountains, unleashing a deluge on the mountainsides denuded by recent fires. A roaring wall of rocks, mud and water crashed down the canyons, uprooting trees, tossing boulders and automobiles […]

Movies of Montrose

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PORTANTINO APPOINTED TO CALIFORNIA FILM COMMISSION

  Senate Rules Committee Selects former Assemblymember & former filmmaker for Commission Sacramento ~ The Senate Rules Committee, Chaired by Senate Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, appointed former Assemblymember Anthony Portantino to the California Film Commission.  Portantino had represented the State Assembly on the Film Commission until terming out of office on December 1, 2012.  Prior to his […]

Glendale Water & Power Launches Online Rebate Program

Glendale Water & Power (GWP) recently revamped its Smart Home Rebate program and is now offering customers rebates on appliances and home improvement products online. The Smart Home Energy and Water Saving Rebate program helps customers save money by giving them rebates on energy and water efficient appliances and upgrades. Currently GWP is offering rebates on nine eligible […]

CLOSED FOREST ROADS HAVE RE-OPENED

  The Los Angeles County Public Works Department has re-opened the following roads in the Angeles National Forest that were closed on February 7 due to snow and icy conditions: • Angeles Forest Hwy from SR-2 (Angeles Crest Hwy) to Aliso Canyon Rd • Big Tujunga Canyon Rd from Angeles Forest Hwy to Vogel Flats […]

FOREST ROADS WILL CLOSE 9 PM TONIGHT DUE TO SNOW FORECAST

The Los Angeles County Public Works Department has advised that based on the forecast of snow and icy road conditions, it will close public access to the following road segments in the Angeles National Forest effective tonight, Thursday, February 7, 2013, at 9 p.m.: • Angeles Forest Highway from SR-2 (Angeles Crest Highway) to Aliso […]

Montrose Turns 100

For the next three weeks, CVW will be looking at the 100 years of Montrose; how the town has grown and changed, and how it has remained the same. We will look at why families moved here, why they stay or why they return, the movies that were filmed here, the memories that have been […]