By Charly SHELTON This weekend, the Montrose Shopping Park Association in conjunction with the City of Glendale, the Historical Society of the Crescenta Valley, Andersen’s Pet Shop and the Crescenta Valley Weekly will be presenting the first annual Olde Tyme Movie Festival over two nights, Friday, Aug. 27 and Saturday, Aug. 28. The program each […]
Join with the Stone Barn Vineyard Conservancy as it celebrates the “fruits” of its labors amongst the grapevines in Deukmejian Wilderness Park. Led by Stuart Byles, vice president of the Historical Society of the Crescenta Valley, the Stone Barn Conservancy has used the vineyard owned by the City of Glendale to provide the community with […]
Contributed by Dennis OLIVER During the week of Aug. 7-14, 33 members of the Crescenta Valley High School cross country team, coaches and more than a dozen parents took part in the annual Mammoth mountain training camp. This was the twentieth annual high altitude running camp. The first running camp began in 1991 with six […]
By Erna TAYLOR STARK Mandie Jones is a contestant in the Donald Trump Miss Teen California USA Pageant 2011 At first glance, Mandie Jones looks like a typical, pretty teenager. However, she is all dressed up in daytime finery, sporting her pink Miss Teen Glendale banner, full makeup and heels on a very hot day […]
By Mary O’KEEFE “We didn’t know that on that day, Aug. 26, this fire would be the largest in Los Angeles County’s history,” said Bat. Chief Mike Brown Wednesday of the Los Angeles County Fire Department’s Station 82. One year ago today at 3:30 p.m. the fire that Crescenta Valley residents had been warned about […]
By Brandon HENSLEY Richard Atwater, a former Crescenta Valley Water District board member, has been appointed as the new executive director of the Southern California Water Committee. In its press release sent Monday, the committee said Atwater was chosen after an extensive search. He replaces interim director Ron Gastelum, who will still be active in […]
By Rachel KANE Glendale Unified School District officials and Glendale Teachers Association representatives reached a tentative agreement Tuesday on contract negotiations regarding the 2010-2011 and 2012-2013 school years. The agreement comes on the heels of the release of an independent fact-finding panel’s advisory report, released to the district and the teachers association on Aug. 17 […]
Before, During and After the Station Fire The Historical Society of Crescenta Valley will be noting the anniversary of the Station Fire with a photo exhibition of “Deukmejian Park – Before During and After the Station Fire.” An opening reception will take place on Thursday from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the La Crescenta […]
By Odalis A. SUAREZ After the destructive Station Fire last year, canyon neighbors are refusing to let another wildfire ignite without taking precautionary measures. Spearheading this initiative are residents of Briggs Terrace who will be hosting a cleanup in their community this Saturday, Aug. 28 on upper Canyonside Road. “We’ve had so much help from […]
The estimated total cost of the 2009 county wildfires and subsequent floods and land slippage was $201 million, the board of supervisors learned Tuesday. Of the total, $60.3 million has been spent through August, with work continuing. Much of the cost will be reimbursed by the state and federal governments under the continuing state of […]