A Walk Through Montrose in 1929 (Part 6) Let’s continue our time travel adventure. We’ve gone back to 1929, and we’re walking west down Honolulu Avenue. In our last episode, we had explored the Montrose Theater (now the parking lot for Andersen’s Pets). Let’s continue walking on the south side. We pass the Viola […]
An Introduction My name is Craig Durst, aka the History Hunter. More on that to come. My path to becoming, as Mike Lawler has referred me, “his counterpart to the West,” began in 1990 when I moved to Lake View Terrace. I soon learned that the indigenous Tongva Village of Tuhuunga (historical spelling of Tujunga) […]
Dearly Beloved I love weddings, don’t you? It’s touching to witness true love and the promise of a bright future together. I always cry even if I don’t know the couple very well. It’s magical, or at least it’s supposed to be. We have all seen the wedding videos where something goes terrible wrong–the slip […]
To the editor: We are a group of politically diverse parents and community members who support Glendale’s public schools, which serve 25,000 students and employ over 1300 teachers and 1300 staff. For the past two election cycles, parents and teachers worked together to protect our community from extremists and candidates who failed to earn GTA’s […]
A Walk Through Montrose in 1929 – Part 5 We continue our trip back in time with a walk through Montrose in 1929. But first I want to talk about a big change in my weekly column. Starting next week, I’ll be writing this column only every other week. The reasons I’m cutting down […]
Happy Belated Earth Day! Last weekend, we celebrated Earth Day at Crescenta Valley Park in conjunction with an event hosted by Los Angeles County. It seemed particularly apropos on the heels of Mary O’Keefe’s article in last week’s issue about CVWD’s ongoing efforts to capture stormwater at CV Park. This has been a project stalled […]
International Noise Awareness Day Wednesday, April 24 is International Noise Awareness Day, a global campaign organized by the Center for Hearing and Communication. Unless or until our hearing is impacted or we start to feel the accumulated negative impacts from a persistent noise source we tend to overlook the discomfort and eventual harm of unwanted […]
A Novel Idea: Our Food Shouldn’t Give Us Cancer or Parkinson’s Disease California’s Central Valley is our nation’s breadbasket. After all, it’s the world’s fifth largest supplier of food and agricultural commodities. California is also the nation’s top user of paraquat, a weed killer long linked to Parkinson’s disease, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and childhood leukemia. Paraquat […]
A Walk Through Montrose in 1929 (Part 4) We continue our trip back in time with a walk through Montrose in 1929. Last week we were in the Montrose Hotel (now Andersen’s Pet Shop). We’re back on the sidewalk on the south side of Honolulu Avenue in front of the hotel. We stand still and […]
The Crescenta Valley Town Council has been diligently working on important community issues to ensure the well-being and prosperity of our neighborhood. Here are some important updates to consider: LA County Public Works sent us the following information regarding the updated Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) ordinance and the LA County Bicycle Master Plan Phase III […]