By Julie BUTCHER This year Ramadan starts on the evening of Friday, May 26 and continues until sundown on the evening of Sunday, June 25. Ramadan is not just a day. For the world’s Muslims, it is the holiest month of the entire year. Celebrated for the full month of Ramadan, the faithful fast from […]
By Julie BUTCHER Assemblymember Laura Friedman hosted “Coffee & Conversation” in the late morning on Saturday at the McCambridge Rec Center in Burbank. Former Assemblymember Mike Gatto was there, too, saying he was pleased to see the “great turnout, especially on a rainy Saturday.” He added that Coffee & Conversation is a tradition for Friedman, […]
By Julie BUTCHER On Wednesday, April 19, approximately 150 students at Rosemont Middle School in La Crescenta participated in the school’s second annual “Walk, Talk, & Learn” event “to remember and commemorate the Armenian Genocide and all genocides,” explained event organizer Janna Kasmanian. During the school’s lunch period, seventh and eighth grade students who wished […]
By Julie BUTCHER On the warm, breezy evening of April 19, hundreds of parents and friends streamed into Glendale High School’s John Wayne Performing Arts Center for Glendale Unified School District’s 16th Annual Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide, presented by GUSD Armenian Clubs at Clark Magnet, Crescenta Valley, Glendale, and Hoover high schools. This year, […]
By Julie BUTCHER On March 13, nearly 40 members of the community attended a forum for candidates running for election to the Glendale City Council. The forum was organized and sponsored by the Montrose-Verdugo City Chamber of Commerce and held at the Sparr Heights Community Center. The municipal election is set for Tuesday, April 4. […]
By Julie BUTCHER Election Day 2017 is on Tuesday, April 4 for all of Glendale’s neighborhoods, and the city clerk is working hard to make sure everyone knows it. Ardy Kassakhian offered an extensive review of his office’s work in educating the public about the changes in this year’s election at a forum at the […]
By Julie BUTCHER On March 8, dozens of teachers, parents, students and members of the community packed a candidate forum held at the school district’s Jackson Avenue headquarters to hear from candidates running in the upcoming Glendale Unified School District (GUSD) election on Tuesday, April 4. For the first time, in response to the threat […]
By Julie BUTCHER On a nearly dreary Sunday, Feb. 26, a day generally reserved for Oscar watching preparations, more than 400 members of the foothills’ communities found the parking structure and trekked across the well-kept landscape of the campus of Glendale Community College to attend a packed, spirited community swearing-in for recently elected California State […]
By Julie BUTCHER On Tuesday, the Glendale Unified School District board voted unanimously and enthusiastically to adopt the Safe Haven resolution introduced several weeks ago, expressly supporting all district students regardless of immigration status. The board heard extensive public testimony in favor of the resolution at its regular meeting of Feb. 7 including comments from […]
By Julie BUTCHER The Feb. 2 meeting of the Land Use Committee of the Crescenta Valley Town Council (CVTC) focused nearly entirely on the continuing issue of installing new streetlights. The CVTC had previously requested that the Land Use Committee (LUC) fully study, research, investigate and propose options for action regarding the installation of new […]