CRIME BLOTTER

Aug. 10 Community and Pennsylvania avenues in La Crescenta, a 46-year-old Whittier man was cited for driving without a valid California driver’s license. Aug. 9 3800 block of Park Place in Montrose, the rear driver’s side window was smashed and several CDs were stolen from a vehicle between 8 a.m. and 11 p.m. Aug. 7 […]

Education bill signed into law

By Mary O’KEEFE On Tuesday the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1586, the Education Jobs and Medicaid Assistance Act. President Barack Obama immediately signed the bill into law. The measure includes $10 billion in funding that targeted saving teachers jobs, and $16.1 billion in health assistance to states thus reducing shortfalls which will allow states […]

Teen rescued after fall

By Mary O’KEEFE A 17-year-old girl was transported to Huntington Memorial Hospital on Monday night at 6:15 p.m. after she fell while hiking with other teens in Upper Big Tujunga near Camp Colby. “The teen had fallen and [appeared] to have a broken arm and leg,” said Sgt. Michael Stuver of the Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s […]

Crescenta Valley Deputies Honored

Nine people of Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s Station received the department’s Life-Saving Award from Sheriff Leroy Baca on Aug. 3 for two separate incidents. The first incident occurred on Feb. 7. Sergeant Tracy Stewart and Deputies Walls, Lucas Tapia, Chad Pluimmer, Juan Martinez, Joel Broumley and Al Barreras were dispatched to the debris basin behind the […]

CITYwrap

By Mary O’KEEFE DRB gives approval to addition The Glendale Design Review Board was highly complimentary of a proposed addition to 3308 Mill Ave., and approved with some minor proposed changes at its most recent meeting. The project was designed by South Pasadena architect Anthony George, a new member of that city’s planning commission. The […]

IN BRIEFS:

LIBRARY HOSTING CHILI COOK OFF On Aug. 14 at 1:00 p.m. the La Crescenta Library is hosting its inaugural chili cook-off.  All are invited to bring their best recipe and compete with others in the community to be crowned the Chili King of La Crescenta Library. The winner will receive a crown and a $25 […]

Crescenta-Cañada Lions Club is sending cases of love

By Odalis A. SUAREZ The Crescenta-Cañada Lions Club will be taking part in Kases for Kids, an effort that collects backpacks and luggage for kids entering foster care. “When kids enter the foster care system, they currently were given plastic or paper bags. The concept is to give a suitcase to take with [them], something […]

Weather in the Foothills:

By Sue KILPATRICK “As marvelous as the stars is the mind of the person who studies them” — Martin Luther King, Jr. Weather this week in Crescenta Valley may seem rather boring – not too hot and not too cold. Considering the extreme weather world wide, including 100 degree temperatures and unhealthy air in Russia […]

Life after the Station Fire

By Brandon HENSLEY Almost a year after the Station Fire devastated Angeles National Forest, there is photographic evidence that life is returning to normal. That much was on display Aug. 5  in front of a large audience inside the La Crescenta Library community room, where Corina Roberts, Angeles National Forest employee and resident,  presented a […]

BREAKING NEWS: St. Mary’s Armenian Church vandalized

By Mary O’KEEFE Several religious statues were destroyed or damaged at St. Mary’s Armenian Apostolic Church in the 500 block of South Central Ave. in Glendale. Witnesses reportedly saw a man, later identified as Victor Petrescu, 23, of Glendale, approach the monuments with a sledgehammer. “The witnesses were going to try to stop him but […]