Happy New Year, La Crescenta! First off, Happy New Year! May 2020 bring you joy and prosperity. We are the community that cares, and may we live up to these words. After a well-deserved break in December, the Crescenta Valley Town Council resumes its monthly general meetings on Jan. 16 at 7 p.m. in the […]
Goal is to Enlighten, Not Upset I do apologize if what I said upset anyone. My intention was to enlighten, not to upset. Only fully informed voters can cause true change. If your main source of information is only CNN, ABC, CBS, the LA Times, etc., then you are only getting a very biased one […]
Whiting Woods’ First Residents Were Prostitutes I’ve written before about the lurid origins of Whiting Woods. For such a beautiful and placid neighborhood, it has a very dark history. The wealthy LA businessman Perry Whiting first bought the canyon known today as Whiting Woods around 1918 after it was seized by the County of Los […]
The Man Who Would Become Google-Able Every community has them, the town characters. People who, for whatever reason, dress a little differently and act a little differently than others. They add texture to the fabric of our lives while they are here and we remember them fondly when they are gone. I met one such […]
Message Written Not Expected Perhaps others started reading Mr. Kretz’s Dec. 26 letter “Stop the Hate” assuming it would go on to lambaste President Trump for so much divisiveness now in our nation. He even wrote, “Read the recent letter from Trump to Pelosi,” so of course we presumed he’s going to go on and […]
An Automobile Trip Through CV in 1911 Automobiles were already becoming popular by 1911, so much so that the newspapers were printing suggested automobile day trips. The auto industry was in its infancy at that point, and there were a was variety of brands, designs and engines available to those well off enough to afford […]
Delivering on Our Promise to Support Veterans One of the highlights of every year is spending Veterans Day at events in La Crescenta and Burbank, where I have the opportunity to personally thank our community’s veterans for their service. These events are a great chance to show our appreciation to veterans, whether they served recently […]
Stop the Hate The politics of hate must come to an end for the good of the people and this republic. All should read the recent letter from Trump to Pelosi. Go to whitehouse.gov, menu on the top left, select news and select briefings to the right. The full link is in the online version […]
The Lost Community of Oakdale Many of the neighborhoods in the Crescenta Valley have retained the names given them by developers when streets were laid out and lots divided. Some of the names became permanent and others faded into obscurity. La Crescenta was the name of a subdivision laid out by Benjamin Briggs in […]
Questions Friedman and Portantino In spite of a budget surplus, Governor Gavin Newsom stated for the record, “Proposition 13 is on the table” (read: chopping block). Emboldened by their super-majority, Democratic lawmakers produced a laundry list of assembly and senate constitutional amendments that would, all or in part, lower the threshold for parcel taxes from […]