By Brandon HENSLEY Among the first things I heard last week regarding the new voting law in Georgia is it would deny the ability for water or other refreshments to be given to voters standing in line as they withered away in the humidity under the relentless Georgia sun. Why would Republican lawmakers create those […]
New Housing Units Coming In? Los Angeles County and the City of Glendale are currently working on their housing element update, which must be done every eight years. The state decides how many housing units for each of the various income levels must be added to an area and it’s up to the city, or […]
Happy Easter from the CVTC On March 10, the Crescenta Valley Town Council reconfirmed its adoption of a proclamation dated March 16, 2017 in standing together as a community to promote equality for all its citizens, residents and visitors to the Crescenta Valley. The Council firmly stands against the recent rise in violence against the […]
The 1978 Flood Left Wide-ranging Effects The storms in February 1978 that caused so much destruction in Pinecrest also hammered communities all over Southern California. As the storm came in from the Pacific Ocean it blew winds of 80 to 90 miles per hour and pushed 10-foot waves over the breakwall in LA and Long […]
The 1978 Pinecrest Mudslide – Part 3 In the last couple of weeks I wrote about the Genofile family, and their dramatic brush with death during a massive mudflow. In February 1978, the fire-swept hillsides above the Pinecrest development had cut loose during heavy rains. The “debris slug,” a destructive mix of water, mud and […]
It’s A Small World After All Sometimes I feel like the universe tilts just a little, causing me to spill back to my childhood and reflect on all those precious memories. That happened to me, right as we were ushering in 2021. In December, I had purchased several copies of the same book from the […]
After One Year of COVID-19, the American Rescue Plan is Restoring Hope Again It’s been a little over a year since this virus first brought our nation and the world to a standstill, a year since many of us packed up our offices and started working from home, and a year since we’ve been able […]
The 1978 Pinecrest Mudslide – Part 2 The story of the Genofile family’s brush with death, continued. It was the middle of the night in February 1978. A burst of intense rain had broken loose a massive portion of the fire-scarred San Gabriel Mountains above the Pinecrest development. Mud, rocks and water had easily crested […]
New Housing Units Coming In? Los Angeles County and the City of Glendale are currently working on their housing element update, which must be done every eight years. The state decides how many housing units for each of the various income levels must be added to an area and it’s up to the city, or […]
The 1978 Pinecrest Mudslide – Part 1 We should always remember that the very ground we live on was built by massive, violent floods. As the San Gabriel Mountains rise, they shed granite. When it rains hard, those granite pieces flood out of the canyons and wash across our valley in rock-filled waves 20 and […]