Remembering 9-11

Our Crescenta Valley community is doing a moment of remembrance for September 11th at Two Strike Park this Sunday . . . 8:15 am until 8:46 am (the moment the 1st plane hit the World Trade Center tower). We will have people from all walks of community life . . . including the Armenian community, […]

Fremont Elementary School Burglarized

By Mary O’KEEFE Fremont Elementary School was burglarized sometime between Thursday night and Friday morning with an estimated $10,000 worth of computer equipment taken. Glendale police found that 14 classrooms had their windows shattered or opened by other means. The eastern portion of the campus was closed to students and staff while the police conducted […]

Big Rig Driver Sentenced to Prison in ACH Fatal Accident

Commercial truck driver Marcos, Barbosa Costa, 46, was  convicted in July of losing control of his big rig in La Canada Flintridge and slamming into several cars, killing a father and his 12-year-old daughter, was sentenced today to seven years, four months in state prison. Costa was found guilty of the April 1, 2009, crash […]

Update: Hikers Searched for by MSR

By Mary O’KEEFE Two hikers walked out of the Angeles National Forest a few hours after being reported missing today. Montrose Search and Rescue members responded to a call that came into the Crescenta Valley Sheriif’s Station concerning two male hikers, ages 16 and 18, who were scheduled to meet one of the hikers’ father […]

Today is Women’s Equality Day!

Today the Nation celebrates the 91st Anniversary of Women’s Equality Day. Each year Women’s Equality Day is celebrated on August 26th to commemorate the 1920 passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting women the right to vote. Congress designated this date in 1971 to honor women’s continuing efforts toward full equality. Spearheading the […]

Film Festival Harks Back to the Good Ole Days

Pull on your bobby socks and slick back your hair – Montrose is hosting a film festival. By Mary O’KEEFE “Where were you in ’62?” That is the question that the movie “American Graffiti” asked and one the community can answer at the 2nd Annual Montrose Film Festival. Friday and Saturday nights will be a […]

Line Up – It’s Back to School

By Mary O’KEEFE On Monday, Crescenta Valley kids will head back to school. That means this week was all about lines. Lines for school supplies, lines for schedules, lines for books and in some cases, lines to find out what line to stand in to get a particular question answered. At both the middle and […]

Council Proceeds With Rose Parade Plans

By Ted AYALA The city with the longest unbroken participation in Pasadena’s Tournament of Roses will continue through 2012. Glendale City Council voted on Tuesday to approve plans for its 2012 Rose Parade float after speculation that the city would be forced to abandon its plans because of shrinking revenues and the need to trim […]

from the desk of the publisher

A Cost Too Great The most devastating fire in the history of Los Angeles County started this week two years ago. The Station Fire began as a small – and many think containable – fire in the Angeles National Forest on Aug. 26, 2009. The catastrophe actually started further east in Azusa. The Morris Fire […]

WEATHER IN THE FOOTHILLS

PART II “I spent years traveling around the world searching for the best place to live. I looked for beauty and climate advantages in every country on the globe. And when I returned I found it right here where I had started from – in the Crescenta-Cañada Valley.” ~ Seymour Thomas, local artist, 1890s The […]