Helping the Environment – and a Good Cause

By Maddy PUMILIA Foothill Car Wash is teaming up with SoCal Recycling for an electronic waste drive this Saturday, Feb. 25 that helps local organization Prom Plus as well as the environment. People can go to Foothill Car Wash at 2355 Foothill Blvd. on Saturday between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. and donate recyclable materials. […]

IN BRIEF

Fundraiser for Drew’s Voice Leo’s All Star is hosting a fundraiser on March 4 for Drew’s Voice, an organization recently established to fight bullying and bring awareness of the need to prevent bullying in the community and across the nation. The public is invited to attend a car show at 11 a.m. and a wienie […]

Training on Ice: A Slippery Business

Last weekend a group of Montrose Search and Rescue (SAR) team members along with two Los Angeles County Sheriff Air Rescue 5 medics climbed frozen waterfalls in Lee Vining Canyon, just east of Yosemite. It was the yearly training of “V.I.R.T.,” (Vertical Ice Response Team). This type of climbing is highly technical and dangerous. Specialized […]

Flip Out for National Pancake Day

For the seventh consecutive year, IHOP restaurants nationwide will offer each guest a free short stack of its famous buttermilk pancakes on National Pancake Day, Feb. 28 from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. in an effort to raise awareness and funds for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. For every short stack of buttermilk pancakes served on […]

Portantino to California Legislators: Eight is Enough

Assemblyman Reintroduces salary freeze measure (AB 1787). For the eighth time, Assemblymember Anthony Portantino (D-La Cañada Flintridge) has introduced a measure to freeze the pay of California’s highest paid employees. AB 1787 calls for a two-year freeze on state employees who earn over $100,000 – thousands of state employees could be subject to the salary […]

Mountain Bikers Rescued

By Mary O’KEEFE Montrose Search and Rescue team responded to a call concerning two missing mountain bikers on Monday evening about 9 p.m. The two bikers, both from Orange County, were biking a trail in the Arroyo Seco area near the old Idlewild campground in the Angeles National Forest. “We got stuck in the middle […]

SR-710 Still on the Map

By Robin GOLDSWORTHY The thorny subject of extending the SR-710 was presented at Thursday night’s CV Town Council meeting. Sam Geneway of MBI Media, the agency hired to collect community data regarding an environmental study for the proposed 710 extension, told the town council and audience members of two information meetings on March 1 and […]

Fatal Accident on ANF

By Mary O’KEEFE The L.A. County Coroner’s Office released the identity of a man who was found inside his car that plunged over the side of the Angeles National Forest Highway near Mt. Gleason Road early Monday. Andrew Searcy, 25, of La Mirada was pronounced dead at the scene. “The vehicle went [over the side] […]

CRIME BLOTTER

Feb. 21 3100 block of Abella Street in La Crescenta, a 2002 Suzuki motorcycle was stolen from the location overnight. 600 block of Pomander Place in La Cañada, a worker at a residence apparently interrupted a burglary in progress at a home. According to the LASD CV Station report, the worker noticed an older model […]

NASA Budget Could Cut Mars Exploration

By Charly SHELTON On Monday, President Barack Obama released his proposed budget for 2013, and the red planet seemed to have taken the hardest hit. For the most part the NASA budget was kept at an even keel, however when it came to Mars exploration the cuts ran deep. The purposed NASA budget for 2013 […]