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 […]
Unlike my wife, I’ve never wished that our home had a pool. Maybe that’s because she grew up with one in her backyard and I didn’t. I just remember hearing my dad say time and time again that pools were nothing but a hole in the ground that you keep throwing money into. Or that […]
In my self-appointed role of local historian I’ve often said that although the Crescenta Valley has a relatively short written history, barely over 100 years, we make up for that with a dynamic history that reads like a supermarket tabloid. Its pages are filled with stories of UFOs, Nazis, grisly murders, sex scandals, racial prejudice, […]