The Importance of Being Prudent It’s January, which means the legislature has reconvened for a new year of Session, new laws have come into effect, and a brand new budget proposal has arrived on all of our desks from the governor’s office. The arrival of the initial draft of the year’s budget sets the stage […]
Rockhaven Sanitarium’s 95th Birthday – Realizing A Dream in Verdugo City In January 1923, a young nurse named Agnes Richards came to the Crescenta Valley following a dream. She dreamed of a sanctuary for women with mental illness. She had worked her way up in some of the toughest mental hospitals around, from a […]
Montrose Search and Rescue – Saving Nearly 600 People Trapped on Mt. Wilson It was a gorgeous Easter Sunday in April 1965. Snow covered the San Gabriel Mountains but the springtime sun pushed the temps into the 70s. Scores of motorists made the drive up Angeles Crest Highway, turning onto the narrow twisting road that […]
Wishing You the Very Best for 2018! Happy New Year! After a well-deserved break in December, the Crescenta Valley Town Council resumes its monthly general meetings on Jan. 18 at 7 p.m. in the community room of the La Crescenta Library at 2809 Foothill Blvd. 2018 is already shaping up to be an exciting year. […]
Prop 64 is a smoke screen Last week (Jan. 7) the CV Weekly reported that state officials project that about one-third of marijuana users will buy their drug illegally from an estimated $2 billion black market this year. It is well known that teenagers buy their marijuana off the black market. This week state officials […]
Montrose Search and Rescue – Lost Women Hikers Kept Their Wits Longtime friends Nancy and Vicki were young, just out of their teens, when they planned an overly ambitious hike one Saturday in January 1988. Their day hike was to be from Trail Canyon in Big Tujunga to the top of Condor Peak, looping back […]
As 2018 begins many major issues continue. Rockhaven and the Verdugo Hills Golf Course properties are not yet safe from development. Environmental concerns with the Scholl Canyon landfill and the project to re-power Grayson complicate Glendale planning. LA County is implementing a delicately balanced approach to reduce the sediment behind Devil’s Gate Dam while retaining […]
Montrose Search and Rescue – Plane Down in Dunsmore Canyon On a very foggy morning in June 1969, three 13-year-old boys set out on a hike up Dunsmore Canyon. At the same time at Van Nuys Airport, four young college students, one of them an inexperienced pilot, climbed into a single engine plane for a […]
Protecting and Preserving Open Space Throughout Our Communities In 2014, President Obama came to the Frank Bonelli Regional Park in the San Gabriel Mountains and signed an executive order making the mountains a national monument, adding it to the more than 150 national monuments created since the Antiquities Act was passed in 1906. The mountains […]
Canyon Name Origins – Arroyo Seco Continuing eastward, we find one last canyon, and it’s a big one. The Arroyo Seco begins almost at Mount Wilson, twists its way through the San Gabriel Mountains, and exits the mountains to form a natural eastern border of La Cañada. It continues south through Pasadena and Eagle Rock […]