By Mary O’KEEFE A lunchtime vehicle accident slowed traffic at the corner of La Crescenta Avenue and Foothill Boulevard on Wednesday. An Infiniti driven by a Pacoima man was traveling westbound on Foothill Bouelvard when it collided with a Ford Explorer driven by a 17-year-old Crescenta Valley High School student traveling eastbound on Foothill Boulevard. […]
For Glendale residents, cars speeding through city streets are an all-too familiar sight. This issue has long vexed local residents and the Glendale Police Department. At their request, Assemblyman Mike Gatto has drafted a bill to give Glendale more say in setting local speed limits and keeping residents safe from harm’s way. The bill is […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Crescenta Valley Water District customers will be asked to stop irrigating their lawns from March 18 to 28. The request comes as a result of Metropolitan Water District temporarily shutting down a major water treatment plant. The Weymouth plant is in La Verne will be shut down for ten days.The plant services […]
By Jason KUROSU The future was the focus of the GUSD Board of Education meeting on March 1 and the immediate future appeared to have the board members equally optimistic and concerned. In past meetings, recommendations for the 2015 Strategic Plan were presented to the board. This week, all that was planned was to establish […]
By Jason KUROSU Local high school students met with local government officials at City Hall this Wednesday as part of the third annual Students in Government Day. Ten students from Crescenta Valley, Clark, Hoover and Glendale High Schools sat down with the Glendale City Council and 13 managers of different city departments and were able […]
Cold, Rainy, Weather Ushers in Weekend The Crescenta Valley coped with cold temperatures and wet weather on Friday. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – NOAA – rain will continue, heavy at times with some thunder also possible. Snow may also be arriving in the foothill communities in the early morning hours. Low […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Members of the Montrose Search and Rescue Team and Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Air Five spent their weekend climbing a wall of ice. This was the team’s annual pilgrimage to Lee Vining where they continue their training as a Vertical Ice Response Team. “We are one of the few rescue teams […]
By Brandon HENSLEY, Jason KUROSU, and Mary O’KEEFE Citizens of Glendale will be going to the polls on April 5 to vote for two available seats on the city Council, two seats for Glendale Unified School District and two seats for the Glendale Community College Board of Trustees. The election is about five weeks away […]
By Ted AYALA The Glendale City Council was met with a well-filled house on Tuesday, Feb. 22. On the table to be discussed at the meeting was the city’s election audit, among other notable subjects. In regard to the election, Councilman Dave Weaver bemoaned the low visibility of the forthcoming city elections in April. “It’s […]
By Sue KILPATRICK “For tomorrow may rain so I’ll follow the sun.” — The Beatles This rain (and snow) season seems to be one of constant weather change. About the time we adjust our lives to days of cold and rain – new windshield wipers, wet dogs, a fire in the fireplace and an umbrella […]