By Charly SHELTON The holiday season is a time for giving, a time for reaching out to fellow humans and a time for coming together in the spirit of the season. For the 43rd consecutive year, Vito Canella and his daughter, Grace Chase, hosted their annual Christmas party on Sunday at Holy Redeemer Church and […]
By Charly SHELTON The day after Thanksgiving is many things to many people. It is the national holiday Native American Heritage Day, in the stores and malls around the country it is Black Friday and, for Cynthia Moyneur England, it is an anniversary day. Twenty-five years ago, she and then 11-year-old Ryan McIntosh spent a […]
By Charly SHELTON The holidays are full of laughter and cheer, giving and gathering, eggnog and gingerbread. And each year, local theme parks pull out all the stops to bring holiday cheer to those who visit them. Included among the theme parks like Disneyland and Universal Studios Hollywood is the Queen Mary in Long Beach. […]
By Charly SHELTON Hailed by food critics as L.A.’s best ramen, Tsujita opened its new location at the Americana at Brand to much anticipation this week. The Tokyo staple ramen restaurant opened its first Los Angeles location in 2011 at Sawtelle Boulevard just north of Olympic Boulevard and one block west of the 405 Freeway. […]
By Charly SHELTON Last Monday, the Glendale Unified School District Board of Education held a special session meeting to go over some of the finer points and the future of Measure S- the ballot initiative approved by 70% of voters in April, 2011 which makes $270 million available to GUSD to renovate and improve schools […]
By Charly SHELTON On Monday, the Glendale Unified School District Board of Education held a special session meeting to go over some of the finer points and the future of Measure S – the ballot initiative approved by 70% of voters in April 2011, which makes $270 million available to GUSD to renovate and improve […]
The community will once again line the streets of Montrose for the highly-anticipated Christmas Parade. By Charly SHELTON For the 40th year, the Montrose Christmas Parade queues up to head down Honolulu Avenue on the first Saturday in December, this year falling on Dec. 3. Groups from across the Crescenta Valley and Glendale will come […]
By Charly SHELTON It is a scientific fact that Tuesday is the best day of the week. While some may claim that Saturdays are best or maybe Mondays, they are wrong. It’s not called Taco Saturday or Taco Monday. Tuesday is the only day of the week that tacos have chosen to represent and therefore […]
By Charly SHELTON The Glendale Unified School District Board of Education held its biweekly meeting Tuesday. In the wake of the Sagebrush forums over the last several weeks, the issue is moving along in another committee’s proceedings, freeing up the board to handle another long-running debate – the school calendar. Last year, a Save our […]
By Charly SHELTON Nov. 2 saw the final Sagebrush forum to discuss a possible territory transfer with the public at-large. Held in Crescenta Valley High School’s MacDonald Auditorium, the forum brought the Los Angeles County Committee on School District Organization, a committee of the Los Angeles County Office of Education, to the public and heard […]