By Agnes CONSTANTE A local teenager and her uncle have organized two fundraisers this upcoming weekend to raise money to purchase iPads for autistic children. Dani Bowman, 17, is an autistic teenager who won an iPad in February after entering an animation contest. She decided to give the iPad to a non-verbal autistic child. Patrick […]
Beach Bus Schedule Announced Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich is again sponsoring the summer beach bus service from La Crescenta/La Cañada Flintridge to Santa Monica Beach. The summer beach bus service costs $3 per round-trip for children and adults. For senior citizens (age 60 and older) and people with disabilities, the service is $1.50 per round-trip. […]
By Brandon HENSLEY Every Friday evening for an hour and a half, on the northwest corner of Ocean View Boulevard and Honolulu Avenue, stands Roberta Medford and her group, the Montrose Peace Vigil. They hold signs calling for peace, enduring the insults flung their way – gestures or verbal barbs – from drivers. “I can’t […]
By Sammi SLAYBACK After over 50 years of successful Easter carnivals, the Sunland-Tujunga Chamber of Commerce held yet another this past weekend, April 6 through April 8. Rides, games, food and live music held at Sunland Park kept families occupied on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Easter egg hunts were held for children on both Saturday […]
Three suspects robbed three teenagers several minutes apart from each other as they were walking home from school on April 5 at about 3:30 p.m. in La Crescenta. The victims, all students at Crescenta Valley High School, were just blocks away from the school as they were approached separately by the suspects within several blocks […]
By Ted AYALA Throngs of Glendale Water & Power workers – joined by their colleagues from Los Angeles’ DWP and numbering in the hundreds – loudly paraded outside of Glendale City Hall Tuesday evening, many of them filling the chambers and the lobby on the first floor. The reason for their grievance is the rejection […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Montrose Search and Rescue team members are assisting other search and rescue teams near San Diego for a missing desert hiker. Guillermo Pino, 24, has been missing since Sunday at about noon. He and his family were exploring the caves in an area called Arroyo Tapiado, two miles from the mouth of […]
Feb. 5, 1921 – April 1, 2012 Serge Kimack, longtime resident of Montrose, passed away in his sleep April 1. He was 91 years young. Serge was born in Sidliska, Poland on Feb. 5, 1921. At 19 he was drafted into the Soviet Army. After the war he escaped from the USSR and after a […]
April 9 2400 Rockdell Street in La Crescenta, a man and woman, both 18 years old from La Crescenta, were arrested for being drunk in public. According to the Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s report, deputies responded to a call concerning a disturbance. They arrived and the two teenagers were yelling and screaming at deputies and became […]
By Jason KUROSU As part of the Glendale Unified School District’s efforts to weather the storm of the state’s budgetary cuts, the board of education approved the reduction or discontinuance of some teachers in EEELP (Early Education Extended Learning Program). “This is another one of those troubling areas in which the state government is sending […]