Happy Return to School Our “Welcome to La Crescenta” sign is back thanks to the Los Angeles County Public Works Dept. You can see it just east of Pennsylvania Avenue on Foothill Boulevard. I am privileged to honor Preston Midgley at our August general Town Council meeting. He achieved the Boy Scout rank of Life […]
Pioneer Memories: Ellen Burton We continue with our memories of various early residents of CV that were printed in a 1938 newspaper. This article was written from an interview with Mrs. Ellen Burton, wife of one of the builders of the Glendale and Montrose Railway, and one of the first residents of Montrose. In 1938 […]
Responds to Recall Article [In response to Aug. 5 article “Understanding the Gubernatorial Recall”], the appropriate time and method to express dissatisfaction with Governor Newsom is by the scheduled election at the end of his term in November 2023, a mere 14 months away from the recall election. This recall is a gigantic waste of […]
Advises Cleanup of Parking Areas Regarding the continuation of the outdoor eating parklets in Montrose [“Outdoor Dining Parklets to Stay a Little Longer in Montrose,” July 29), I can understand why the restaurants are happy with them. However, as has been pointed out, one of the problems they have created are the removal of parking […]
Book Smart It may seem strange but some of my fondest memories as a young girl were times I spent waiting to be seen by a doctor. I wasn’t a sick child; it was just that the medical facility that our family went to had very long wait times. My mom, to her credit, brought […]
Pioneer Memories: Wild Times at the Montrose General Store Continuing with the memories of several CV pioneers that were printed in a 1938 newspaper, we turn now to the memories of Mrs. T.O. Potts. T.O. Potts opened the first business in Montrose in 1914, a general store on the southeast corner of Honolulu Avenue and […]
Update from Streets and Transportation Committee Chair As the Streets and Transportation Committee chair, I’m pleased to say your transportation dollars are at work. I want to share our progress over the past eight years in bringing safer, active living streets and projects to improve the quality of life. We have a committee of council […]
Pioneer Memories: N.W. Zimmer We’re continuing with the memories of several early residents that were recorded in 1938. Our local newspaper, The Ledger, contacted as many “old-timers” as they could find and asked them to either be interviewed or to submit their memories in writing. It’s proven to be a vast treasure trove of eyewitness […]
CVWD – Roadmap Crescenta Valley Water District (CVWD) takes great pride in delivering high quality, reliable and cost-efficient water and wastewater services to our 33,000 customers. As we uphold our mission statement “To provide quality water and wastewater services to the Crescenta Valley community in a dependable and economically responsible manner,” it is important that […]
CV Fireworks Thanks You! Our tightknit community has done it again. Thanks to the many generous donors from across the Crescenta Valley, CV Fireworks was able to display another year of incredible fireworks on July 4th. It was uncertain if a show would even be allowed but once we received the green light for a […]