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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
By Mary O’KEEFE In 1798, Don José Verdugo, a corporal in the Mexican Army stationed in San Gabriel, was given the first land grant in California by the King of Spain. The conditions to this land grant were that he farm the land, raise livestock and live in peace with the American Indians of the […]
Coffee with the COPPS Coming Up The next Coffee with the COPPS will take place on this Saturday from 9 a.m. until 11 a.m. at Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf 3701 Ocean View Blvd. in Montrose. The Coffee with the COPPS concept was implemented by the Glendale Police Department in an effort to improve communication between the […]
By Brandon HENSLEY Summer usually means an abbreviated meeting for the Crescenta Valley Town Council and that was the case again for the meeting on Aug. 18 inside the La Crescenta Library Community Room. Instead of speakers, there were a slew of announcements including a date change for the September council meeting. To accommodate Crescenta […]