By Charly SHELTON This week, we reach our last Halloween event to be covered. Two weeks ago, we started with Knott’s Scary Farm, which is clever in both effects and themes, and less crowded. Last week we looked at Universal Studios Hollywood which, while the lines are massively long, provides incredible production values and mazes […]
By Samantha SLAYBACK The foothills community has long been a community that values previous decades and all they had to offer. For this reason, antique stores have always had a place in the area. One particular shop has graced Montrose for the past 24 years. About Antiques, located at 3533 Ocean View Blvd., has been […]
On Oct. 7, local students of all ages, along with teachers, school administrators, city officials and parents, put on their walking shoes for the Fifth Annual Walk-to-School day. There were meeting points for the various schools around the valley that included Two Strike Park and Montrose and Dunsmore parks. This was the largest “organized” […]
By Charly SHELTON Last month, Greg Fish was named as the City of Glendale’s new fire chief. Fish was officially appointed as GFD chief after serving five months in an interim capacity following the departure of Harold Scoggins, who left Glendale to take the reins of fire chief of Seattle. Fish was officially appointed at […]
By Charly SHELTON Motorcycles and music and food and motorcycles – all for a good cause. This pretty much summarizes the 32nd – and final year – of the largest and longest running one-day charity motorcycle ride in the world: Love Ride. Since 1984, Love Ride has been held annually to raise money for charities […]
By Charly SHELTON As Halloween draws near, theme parks are preparing “spooktacular” events for visitors. This week, we venture over to Universal Studios Hollywood for their annual Halloween Horror Nights. We’ll see six terrifying mazes, four scare zones and a terror tram walk through the infested sets on the backlot. Let’s go. The six mazes, […]
By Charly SHELTON Tuesday night’s Glendale Unified School District semi-monthly board of education meeting had a running theme – teachers. The meeting was attended by dozens of teachers, many of whom were there to show support for fellow teachers during the contract disputes with the district. During each meeting, the GUSD board sets aside time […]
By Charly SHELTON Twenty-seven billion dollars. That is how much was raised through a fee called a Development Impact Fee levied on all development in Glendale. Charged by the square foot on property built or demolished in the city limits to anyone who is building a new structure or adding footage to an existing structure, […]
By Charly SHELTON Nearly 800 people were expected on Sunday to Memorial Park in La Cañada Flintridge for the 13th annual Wine and Gourmet Food Tasting event hosted by the Kiwanis Club of La Cañada. With more than 20 food tastings from restaurants around the area and 17 vintners or retailers pouring over 65 different […]
By Charly SHELTON The 38th Annual Montrose Oktoberfest was held on Saturday in the 2200-2400 blocks of Honolulu. The event was a huge success, said Melinda Clarke, executive director of the Montrose-Verdugo City Chamber of Commerce. “It was a great event,” said Clarke. “Lots and lots of people [attended] and we had the weather on […]