By Mary O’KEEFE A one-stop information day for those in need is being offered by Passageways on Tuesday, Oct. 19 in Pasadena. The Homeless Connect Day brings together all types of vendors from those that specialize in housing to representatives from the DMV and other government officials. “Our goal is to provide onsite services for […]
By Mary O’KEEFE On Oct. 7 the CV Sheriffs Station was evacuated from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. due to smoke resulting from a fire caused by a short in the station’s air conditioning unit. Smoke filled the station causing personnel to be evacuated. L.A. county fire responded. One inmate in the jail at the time […]
Crescenta Valley Sheriff detectives on Oct. 7 arrested a man suspected of robbing the Citizens Business Bank in La Cañada Flintridge on June 11, 2010. The suspect passed a bag and a note to a teller demanding money. As the suspect fled the bank carrying the bag of cash, a secreted dye pack activated, and […]
By Mary O’KEEFE A man was arrested at the U.S. Post Office, Verdugo City branch, at 2816 Honolulu Ave. on Friday when he attempted to purchase 800 stamps with a fraudulent check. Tea Kang, 41, of Los Angeles was arrested after the postal worker became suspicious of the check. “He told us he had been […]
By Robin GOLDSWORTHY The sixth annual State of the Schools Breakfast, held on Thursday, Oct. 7 at the Pacific Community Center and Edison Elementary School in Glendale, started with a catered breakfast by Glendale High School Bistro and ended on a high note provided by the Crescenta Valley High School Marching Band. But it was […]
An accident involving two big rigs slowed traffic on the westbound Foothill (210) freeway just before the Sunland exit on Monday about 1 p.m. According to a California Highway Patrol spokesman, a 45-year-old Las Vegas man was driving a big rig westbound in lane four on the Foothill (210) freeway when he reported that a […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Over 40 volunteers walked Foothill Boulevard with garden hats and shovels in hand to help spruce up La Crescenta. The trees along the boulevard are only maintained by County of Los Angeles Department of Public Works for one year after they are planted. From that point on they are either taken care […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Smoke filled the skies above a Montrose neighborhood as firefighters battled an afternoon blaze at a single story home at 3430 Las Palmas Ave. on Monday afternoon. The 911 call came into Glendale fire at 3:38 p.m. Glendale police at Sunview Drive to Arlington Avenue closed Las Palmas Avenue until 7:30 p.m. […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Wednesday morning began at about 5 a.m. on the normally quiet street in La Crescenta with dogs barking, people yelling and FBI agents with rifles rushing toward a home. “We went outside and it was crazy. It was like a movie,” said Debi Devens of her early morning FBI wake up call. […]
By Mary O’KEEFE At a standing room only meeting on Tuesday Congressman Adam Schiff led a congressional panel into an inquiry of how the Station Fire was battled especially in those crucial early hours of Aug. 26. The meeting had been scheduled months earlier but was postponed when Congress was called back into an emergency […]