CONGRESSMAN OFFERS CONGRATS I would like to offer congratulations to the Crescenta Valley Weekly on the first anniversary of your community-based newspaper. Yours is a real family operation that has served the community well with your great reporting and insights on the local issues that matter. I have enjoyed working with all of your staff […]
Hard to believe that a year has passed since the devastation that was the Station Fire. In some ways it seems a life time ago; in others like it was yesterday. Controversy still swirls around the circumstances regarding how the Station Fire became the inferno that it did. On that Wednesday night on Aug. 26 […]
MARKET ASSESSMENT Mary Dawson’s article regarding the Sunday Montrose Harvest Market [“Summer Bounty at the Montrose Harvest Market,” July 22] was on the money. Besides what the vendors sell there are some wonderful people who work there. Louie the avocado man will sell you right on ripe fruit or one that you can wait a […]
A whole year, already? Has it really been a year since the first tendrils of smoke curled skyward near the ranger station up Angeles Crest Highway? Since the gathering sirens of first responders broke the late summer stillness that usually hangs heavily over the Crescenta Valley? Looking at the hills above us, you’d think the […]
Let’s get back to our story on the Verdugo Hills Golf Course and its previous incarnation as WWII enemy alien camp. Conditions in the camp were good by wartime standards, particularly to a population that was used to Depression era privations. The prisoners were allowed free range of the enclosure, exercise was encouraged, and some, […]
Expectations from CV Town Council I get asked the same three questions about CV Town Council: What is it? What do we do? Why be a Councilmember? CVTC is 12 elected members that volunteered to be the voice of the community. Every year, six positions become available. Is it your turn? The Council is confronted […]
Appropriately enough for the month of August, I’ve been thinking about swimming. Not that I’m even close to being a decent swimmer – as I mentioned in last week’s column. More than one lifeguard has, I’m sure, had to begrudgingly look away from the bronzed and bikinied bodies on the beach in order to keep […]
Once again a developer is caught making a “mistake” that favors him financially. I’m referring to the three-story office development on Foothill Boulevard that was recently revealed to have a basic “error” in its design that allowed the developer a much taller building than was legal. I’ve written previously about how the bulldozers showed up […]
Big news – at least for me – on Tuesday was the announcement by “Dr. Laura” Schlessinger that she is going to give up her radio program at the end of the year. This news came on the heels of an apparent diatribe by her last week on her radio program with a liberal peppering […]
CHASE PROVIDES A CHUCKLE I just had to write to say that Jim Chase’s column was hilarious [“Charity begins … at the supermarket?” July 15, My Thoughts Exactly]. It was his all time best. Every word of it was so true because we all go through this every time we go to the markets. And […]