By Charles COOPER An attempt by the city to revoke the conditional use permit for Urartu Restaurant at 3463 Foothill Blvd. will be presented next week before a planning hearing officer. The issue was supposed to be decided on Wednesday, but was delayed a week at the request of owner Serob Serobyan. His representative said […]
By Shari EMAMI Joycie Dungca and Stevie Weatherby are in love. The couple met in 2001 while taking a music business course. Over the years, they broke up and got back together on a few occasions. However, when Stevie was sick, it was Joycie who came to his house with ice cream. Stevie was the […]
By Mary O’KEEFE This weekend shoppers and artists will meet on common ground along Honolulu Avenue in the Montrose Shopping Park as they have for the last 27 years. The Annual Montrose Arts and Crafts Festival is well known to artists throughout several western states as the place to show and sell their art and […]
By Shari EMAMI At the Vietnam War Memorial at Honolulu Avenue and Ocean View Boulevard, guests took part in the 42nd Memorial Day service. The ceremony was co-hosted by the Montrose Shopping Park Association and the Montrose-Verdugo City Chamber of Commerce. Not only were Vietnam War soldiers honored but local residents who served and perished […]
By Shari EMAMI About 100 Glendale community members, neighbors and teachers gathered outside the home of school board president Greg Krikorian on Wednesday evening, May 26, to silently protest the school board’s recently proposed 50% increase in class size and teacher layoffs in response to budget cuts. The Glendale Teachers Association held the vigil, handing […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Burglary suspects were arrested thanks to an alert neighbor who saw something suspicious and called police. “A neighbor observed three males exiting a gate [of a house] located in the 3000 block of Los Olivos Lane. The witness knew that the home owner was gone and that the home had been burglarized […]
By Michael LOCKE Elks Correspondent Sixteen college-bound seniors from five of the area’s high schools were honored recently at the 80th Annual Elks Scholarship Awards Dinner sponsored by Glendale Elks Lodge 1289. The top six finalists competed for district, state and national honors and received a total of $23,000. Crescenta Valley High School had four […]
Altura to get speed lumps The city will try to slow down traffic on Altura Avenue between Dunsmore and Boston avenues by installing four sets of speed lumps. The traffic calming measure was requested by residents, 85% of whom endorsed the change. Speed limit on the street is 25 miles an hour, but an engineering […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Glendale police are asking for any information from the public concerning a missing local college student. According to police, Nancy Salas, 22, was last seen today, Wednesday, at 6:30 a.m. when she left her residence at 2022 Eleanore Drive to go for her usual morning run up Chevy Chase Canyon. She normally […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Last weekend, after six weeks of designing and building, Crescenta Valley, Clark Magnet and La Cañada high schools’ robotic teams, with over 55 other teams, met on the competitive field. The weekend was part of the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Los Angeles Regional competition held in Long […]