By Mary O’KEEFE Residents have reported seeing a bear in the upper Briggs Terrace area on Monday night and early Tuesday morning. Roger Young president of the Crescenta Valley Fire Safe Council sent a notice via email to all residents of the sighting. According to Young a resident in the 5800 block of Irving Avenue […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s detectives are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man suspected of sexually assaulting a young woman while she was walking on Briggs Avenue. As reported last week in Crescenta Valley Weekly, a 21-year-old woman was walking southbound on Briggs Avenue near Altura Avenue about 6 p.m. on […]
June 20 4600 block of Lone Pine Lane in La Cañada Flintridge, a global positioning system and other items were stolen from two unlocked vehicles parked in the home’s driveway overnight. June 19 4700 block of Palm Drive in La Cañada, a global positioning system and other items were stolen from a locked vehicle overnight. […]
By Brandon HENSLEY The sign in front of the entrance on Markridge Road read, “Park Closed.” Except on this day, taped over the second word, there was a highlighter-green paper that read “Open.” And with that, the patchwork sign led up the long windy road to a place that’s also being put back together, slowly […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s detectives are looking for a man who reportedly sexually assaulted a woman while she was walking on Briggs Avenue on Monday early evening. At 6:05 p.m. on Monday a 21-year-old woman was walking southbound on Briggs Avenue near Altura Avenue when she sensed someone was walking behind her. “She […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The Citizens Business Bank in the 800 block of Foothill Boulevard in La Cañada was robbed about noon on Friday. A man entered the bank and presented a teller with a note demanding cash, said Sgt. Ray Harley. The teller complied and the man exited the building. A dye pack that was […]
June 15 2400 block of Olive Avenue in La Crescenta, a resident reported that she was awakened just after midnight by a neighbor knocking on her door. The neighbor, 48, appeared to be disoriented and asked to come into the resident’s home to charge her cellphone. The resident refused and called the CV Sheriff’s Station. […]
By Charles COOPER The planned new Trader Joe’s Market in Montrose passed design review after some discussion, and is moving toward possible completion in 2011. The market has been in the discussion stage for several years as local leaders have looked for an anchor tenant for the west end of the Montrose Shopping Park. The […]
By Geghard ARAKELIAN The California Highway Patrol will be holding a casino-night fundraiser at the Rosemont Pavilion this Saturday at 7 p.m., in which a portion of the proceeds will go to an officer who died while serving in the line of duty last week. While attempting to conduct a traffic stop in Redlands, Officer […]
By Odalis A. SUAREZ In an effort to bring community concerns about the Glendale Unified School District budget crisis under one roof, GUSD board president Greg Krikorian, along with GUSD board member Christine Walters, organized the first “fireside chat” at the Verdugo Hills Boy Scout Council in Glendale this past Tuesday. “This is not district […]