By Mary O’KEEFE Assemblymember Anthony Portantino has announced via email late Wednesday evening that he will not be running for office in 2012. He stated that his decision was made due to family obligations. Portantino has represented the 44th Assembly District since 2006. He is a democrat that has often been at odds with […]
By Brandon HENSLEY Finally, a resolution. It took months of talks and years going back to when the board began to think about making changes, but Tuesday night’s GUSD school board meeting gave parents and students of CV High an answer at last regarding the open campus policy during lunch. You can leave, with written […]
Suzy Jacobs brings years of experience and a desire to further build community relations. By Brandon HENSLEY On Jan. 3, the CV Drug and Alcohol Prevention Coalition announced its newest executive director. Suzy Jacobs was present at the coalition’s first meeting of the year on Monday night at the La Crescenta Library. Jacobs succeeds David […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The utility companies were on the hot seat Jan. 12 during a panel discussion held in Pasadena at the request of Congressman Adam Schiff. The purpose was to discuss the response from the utility companies during the devastating windstorm that occurred the night of Nov. 30 to Dec. 1. The power outages […]
By Jason KUROSU Gov. Edmund G. Brown, Jr. continued his line of austerity budgeting with his latest budget plan, released Jan. 5. The governor has already enacted steep cuts to various state programs in order to combat budgetary deficits and the newest plan may call for more cuts from education. While the deficit has improved […]
The former director of construction for Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena was sentenced to three years in federal prison and ordered to pay $4.8 million in restitution for orchestrating a kickback scheme in which companies were paid for work that was never done at the Pasadena hospital. David Hamedany, 55, of Glendale was sentenced by […]
The Glendale Teachers Association and the Glendale Unified School District are pleased to announce that a tentative agreement has been reached regarding 2011-2012 furlough days. There will be no furlough days for the 2011-2012 school year. Therefore, students will be at school on March 16 and April 24, 2012. Additionally, teachers will be on duty […]
By Mary O’KEEFE On Saturday at about 8 p.m., a 27-year-old woman was running on the Crescenta Valley High School track when she noticed two men standing near the field. She continued her run and a short time later, was approached by one of the men. The other man had left the area. The man […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Gov. Edmund G. Brown, Jr. delivered his State of the State address on Wednesday morning. His speech was tempered optimism stating that California was “on the mend.” He stated that last year the state was looking at a structural deficit of over $20 billion. “It was a real mess,” he said in […]
Jan. 16 600 block of Foothill Boulevard in La Cañada Flintridge, a man described as Hispanic wearing a black baseball cap reportedly ran out of the TJ Maxx store carrying two purses and did not attempt to pay. A witness reported seeing him get into a white two-door sedan that may have been a Hyundai […]