About three years ago, Aileen Bristow began working to open the Fire House youth center in La Crescenta. For 10 years, it had been a dream of hers and those who knew her son Christopher McCulloch. They wanted a place where kids could go, meet their friends and just hang out. In honor of her […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Neighbors and community members spent Saturday cutting away dead and over grown limbs and clearing brush in the Upper Briggs Terrace area – all in volunteer service to keep their area safe. Judy Turner, an Upper Briggs Terrace resident and member of the Crescenta Valley Fire Safe Council, helped organize the event. […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Californians love spending time outside, not just surfing and sitting on the beach but also hiking the hundreds of miles of trails throughout the state’s wilderness parks. The Angeles National Forest, in Crescenta Valley’s backyard, offers trails that can lead to some of the most beautiful landscape in Southern California. Those trails, […]
By Mary O’KEEFE A 19-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of possession of marijuana for sale after he was stopped in the 3400 block of Stancrest Drive in Glendale at 10:46 p.m. A Glendale police officer noticed a man sitting in a vehicle that was parked along a curb line at the location. The officer […]
Glendale police arrested three people in connection to heroin use and sales on Monday. For the past few weeks, police have been receiving complaints concerning suspicious activity, possibly drug related, in the area of a strip mall at Honolulu and Glenwood avenues. After a police investigation it was discovered that Vahagn Stepanyan, 26, of La […]
By Mary O’KEEFE It is a welcome sight for those who hike and camp in the Angeles National Forest to see vegetation bloom after the devastation of the Station Fire, but there is one plant that although beautiful must be admired from afar. The Poodle-dog bush is a called a fire flower because it appears […]
By Ted AYALA Glendale’s venerable Alex Theatre, a fixture on Brand Boulevard since the days of Harold Lloyd and Anita Page, has been the focus of nervous speculation by the city and community alike in the wake of the dissolution of the state’s redevelopment agencies. The future of the Alex, which enjoyed a restoration and […]
After visiting La Crescenta neighborhoods, Meatball hitched a ride back to the ANF. By Mary O’KEEFE The bear known as Meatball, aka Glen Bearian, has once again traveled deep into the Angeles National Forest, courtesy of the Department of Fish and Game. Early Sunday morning the bear strolled down from the Angeles National Forest apparently […]
The City of Burbank is beginning the process of hiring a permanent Police Chief. Chief Scott LaChasse has served as the City’s Interim Police Chief for the last two and a half years. “The Chief was originally hired for a six month assignment, but it became obvious that we had hired someone with the […]
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