Last week I wrote about the devastation to our family’s mountain vacation home caused by a faulty joint in a water pipe and many days, or possibly even weeks, of flooding coming from an upstairs bathroom. In late September, after nearly eight months of demolition, rebuilding, rethinking, and refurnishing, the home was finally back to […]
The absolute best symbol of the beauty of the Crescenta Valley (man-made anyway) is the charming stone church at Rosemont and Foothill, St. Luke’s of the Mountains. Built from a painting done by a famous artist, it is visually magnificent. There are many other aspects of the church – the stained glass, the landscaping, the […]
This weather has been nuts! First I’m baking and begging for the air conditioning to be kept on, then Monday night I turned on the heat. Thankfully, there was very little weather-related schizophrenia on Saturday during the annual Oktoberfest in Montrose. I’m active in an organization at Crescenta Valley High School called Prom Plus. Prom […]
Yes, it’s true! Amazing as it seems, one of the greatest American writers of all time called Montrose home for a short while in the 1930s in a house that’s still here! This amazing discovery was made by our own Glendale Councilman John Drayman a few years ago, and is backed-up by several biographies of […]
Our family has been blessed to have enjoyed the frequent and extended use of a cozy vacation home up in the breathtaking setting of Mammoth Lakes in the Eastern Sierras. When my parents originally bought this second home, 312 miles north of here, it was surrounded by empty lots on a street that backs up […]
APPRECIATES POLICE, COALITION I wanted to say thank you to the Glendale Police Department and the Crescenta Valley Drug and Alcohol Prevention Coalition for putting on such an informative Town Hall Meeting on Sept. 15th at the Verdugo Hills Hospital. I thought it was an appropriate subject to address as many crimes that police have […]
Regular readers will know that I occasionally overflow with odd, random thoughts that – while they don’t warrant an entire column – do somehow manage to find their way onto this page as things that I wonder about. For example: I wonder … if the superbly talented and funny Betty White regrets her decision to […]
It always amazes both newcomers to CV and long-time residents what a wealth of historical events of a global nature have taken place in, or are connected with, our sleepy valley. But we are also connected geographically to events of a galactic nature with the proximity of Mt. Wilson to CV. A defining feature of […]
One thing about out of town company is that you get to play the part of the tourist. My sister visited from New Hampshire this past week with her 11-year-old daughter. My sister is a native Californian. She relocated to New Hampshire in 1990. We grew up in Sun Valley, just over the hill, and […]
OFFERS NOTE OF CONGRATULATIONS Please accept my congratulations on completing your first year of publication. In an age of declining newspaper readership, what you have accomplished is nothing short of miraculous. Of course, somehow, I kind of expected that our unique sense of community would be there to support your incredible, and outright daring, notion […]