Man sought for indecent exposure

By Mary O’KEEFE On Nov. 17 about 3:50 p.m. a man in an older compact sedan allegedly exposed himself to three teenagers in the 2800 block of Los Olivos Lane in La Crescenta. The teenaged girls were running in the area when the suspect drove past them a few times before slowing his car next […]

Week in Review 11-19-09

Week in Review 11-19-09

The Week in Review podcast is now available on the web and iTunes. This week, we try something a little different.  No more scrolling text, like credits from a movie.  Now its just captions on moving pictures, like you would see in the paper.  This is more of a companion to the paper and website.  […]

Residents deal with downpour dilemma

Residents deal with downpour dilemma

By Mary O’KEEFE Residents throughout Crescenta Valley had planned for it, went to meetings about it and knew it was going to happen but that didn’t make a backyard and streets full of mud any easier to deal with.  Wednesday night’s downpour came and went in a little over an hour and left a muddy […]

Week in Review Nov. 12 2009

Week in Review Nov. 12 2009

The Week in Review podcast is now available for download and web viewing.  Stories include the bear found in La Crescenta, the “Taste in the Foothills” event, the Jennifer Keith Quartet, and Veteran’s Day memorials. To view and download in iTunes, click here. To view on the web without downloading, click here.  Because this podcast […]

Meet Ivy Hopper

Meet Ivy Hopper

Ivy Hopper is a teen columnist who talks with authors and fans of books that are currently being read by today’s youth. This week Matt Shively, Nickelodeon’s True Jackson, VP chats with Ivy about his broken heart. Matt and I talked about a breakup code that is in the novel The Heartbreakers by Pamela Wells. […]

CRIME BLOTTER

Nov. 9 Foothill Boulevard and Oak Grove Drive in La Cañada, Jose DeLaCruz, 23, and Cipriano Flores, 52, both of Altadena were arrested after deputies responded to a call from a driver reporting a vehicle apparently attempting to run her off the road.  According to the report, the driver was traveling northbound on Oak Grove […]

Robbery arrest made in Montrose

By Mary O’KEEFE Glendale Police are asking for any witnesses who may have seen a robbery on Sunday afternoon in Montrose. The incident began about noon when witnesses called police to report two men involved in an apparent robbery in progress in a parking lot in the 2300 block of Honolulu Avenue. By the time […]

Just another day in Crescenta Valley

It wasn’t part of the television episode being filmed on Foothill Boulevard although it may have seemed like it when a report of a topless woman walking up the street came into the Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s Station on Monday. The call first came in about 9:50 a.m. of the woman in the area of Prospect […]

There was a bear out there

By Mary O’KEEFE A bear was found in the backyard of a home in the 2600 block of Prospect Avenue about 2 p.m. on Wednesday. It was eventually tranquilized and transported to the mountains ending an almost 24 hour bear odyssey that included barking dogs, helicopters and calls to the sheriff’s station. “Our dog started […]

Veterans walk the runway at Bob Hope

By Mary O’KEEFE Veterans came out en masse to support the Bob Hope Airport Veterans’ Day Runway Walk 2009 on Wednesday. The walk was led by war veterans from La Crescenta, Glendale, Burbank and Pasadena. Veterans Mike Baldwin, Nat Prescott and Jack Maison representing the American Legion Post 288 and Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) […]