Not a Bright Outlook In the Aug. 12 issue in the Leisure section, page 14, the “then and now” feature highlighted the oldest house in Montrose. [What happened to it] sizes up all that’s wrong in not only this city but all over: the dissolving of R1 zones. A total lack of concern or respect […]
Historical ‘Asian Hate’ in the Foothills The phenomenon of “Asian hate,” or prejudice against Americans of Asian descent, has unfortunately been in the news lately. Locally, Korean Americans are a huge part of our community and I’m sure that some of them could point to incidents that have happened to them recently. Looking at the […]
Laughter is the Best … Not long ago, a coworker came into my office, plopped down in a chair and said, “Tell me something funny. If I don’t laugh right now, I am going to cry!” Without pausing to ask her what was wrong, I launched into a story about the time my mom accidently […]
Pioneer Memories: Wynn Norton and Mrs. Seright For the past few weeks I’ve been quoting a 1938 newspaper article that recounted the memories of the earliest residents ofLa Crescenta and La Cañada. These eyewitness accounts of what life was like here are fascinating. I quote from the article, but I’ve inserted my own comments in […]
Welcome Back for an Exciting New School Year! As we embark on this new school year and return to in-person learning, we remain relentlessly committed to our Board of Education priorities to provide a rigorous and culturally relevant and responsive education for all children, support our students’ social emotional growth, protect the health and safety […]
Clean It Up, Montrose! On Saturday afternoon, Aug. 14, my husband and I decided to take a stroll through Montrose and stop for a bite to eat. We had a very pleasant meal at Pepe’s (we had the best service, the food was very good) and people watching; it’s always fun for us. We ate […]
We Must Extend FireGuard to Help Save Lives and Property California’s annual fire season is upon us, and we’re already seeing a level of devastation and destruction unlike anything our state has faced before. For the past few weeks, Californians have watched in horror as the Dixie Fire exploded into the single-largest wildfire in Golden […]
We Need Safe Streets As a mother and the state representative for over 465,000 people, the safety and well-being of all Californians is always on my mind. For years I’ve been particularly concerned about the increasing risks for drivers, pedestrians and cyclists on our roads. Motor vehicle crashes are the fourth leading cause of premature death […]
History: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly While we recently heard congressional testimony (at least some of us anyway) describing the angry mob which stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, waving Confederate battle flags, chanting the N-word, murdering a police officer and threatening to hang the vice president, now a smaller but equally irate crowd of […]
Pioneer Memories: The Robinsons and Their Radio Station Continuing with the memories of various CV pioneers that were published in a 1938 edition of our local paper, we turn to the remembrances of Formosa Robinson. In 1927, she and her husband Frederick Robinson created their own radio station in their home among the sagebrush, high […]