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 […]
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 […]