My New Year’s Wish For Rockhaven Sanitarium It’s been over 10 years since the City of Glendale bought Rockhaven Sanitarium, the last intact sanitarium in a community whose founding industry was sanitariums. Here’s a brief recap of events since then. In 2008, Glendale bought the historic property with the stated intention of creating a […]
The Trees of Foothill Boulevard – The London Planetree Foothill Boulevard is a wide, rather barren street and its dominant features are small businesses and shopping malls fronted by a hodge-podge of architectural styles. There is little greenery, but that is beginning to change. Decades ago an effort was made to add some green to […]
The Alarming Rise of Hate Crimes On Oct. 27, a man entered the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh and opened fire, killing 11 people who had gathered there to worship. It was the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history. The day before, a man in Florida was arrested for mailing pipe bombs to […]
Benjamin Briggs’ 49er Diary – Part 2 Last week we covered the first part of the wagon train diary of Benjamin Briggs, who later went on to found La Crescenta. Briggs, two of his brothers and a friend set off in early 1849 to strike it rich in the gold fields. Halfway through the […]
Our Year in Review December 2018 We did it! After a whirlwind year for our district and state, we find ourselves at the close of 2018. While there have definitely been some downs, we also have so much to be grateful for. And as I prepare to represent you for another term, I would like […]
Only in the Crescenta Valley – What is more fun for a 5-year-old than a trip to Disneyland? It is having a visit from the Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s Station at your birthday party! Our grandson, Peter Badigue, for his fifth birthday party, held at Hello Pizza, received a visit from Community Relations Deputy Alex Covian […]
Benjamin Briggs’ 49er Diary – Part 1 Dr. Benjamin Briggs is considered the founder of La Crescenta. He came here in 1881 because of the healthful clear air and purchased the entire Crescenta Valley. He named it La Crescenta, and divided it into saleable lots. What many don’t know is that Briggs originally came […]
With All Best Wishes for the Holidays and New Year! Dear Crescenta Valley Friends, Let me start this month’s column by congratulating all seven candidates who ran in the Nov. 16-17 Crescenta Valley Town Council election. We had a tremendous turnout with 567 votes counted among 287 ballots. So many, in fact, that we had […]
Questions CVTC Motives In the Nov. 15 article about the Crescenta Valley Town Council general meeting, Councilmember Mike Claessans attempted to discourage residents from speaking about the Briggs Avenue AT&T small cell appeal by reportedly saying such speeches would be “inappropriate, confusing and will not help,” based on the prior approval of the project in […]
Crisis? What Crisis? California leaders, from the governor on down to municipal city councilmembers, appear to be in “panic mode” as they scramble to do something about the so-called housing shortage. I am pretty sure that we are not on the brink of a market crisis as they claim. California’s high rents did not […]