By Kevork KURDOGHLIAN In addition to their regular business, the Crescenta Valley Town Council met last Thursday to receive updates from various community members and organizations. David George Gevorkyan, a member of the GUSD Bond Oversight Committee and audit commissioner at the City of Glendale, announced his interest in the vacant Glendale Unified School District […]
Notes on the Armenian American Identity By Kevork KURDOGHLIAN My great-grandfather was born in the Ottoman Empire. He had a business, a family and a community. He fled to avoid the massacre that would become known as the Armenian Genocide, which officially began on April 24, 1915. Of course he could have stayed in his […]
By Kevork KURDOGHLIAN Voters in the Glendale Unified School District can expect to see a new board member on the dais by the end of October. On Tuesday, the four-member board voted to move forward with filling the vacancy created by the retirement of former member Mary Boger. The application period starts today and ends […]
By Kevork KURDOGHLIAN About 110 people filled the auditorium of Mountain Avenue Elementary School on Tuesday evening to listen to a presentation by Glendale Unified School District Superintendent Dr. Richard Sheehan regarding the proposed territory transfer. In attendance were Mountain Avenue parents, who represented a majority of the crowd, Mountain Avenue Principal Rebecca Witt, PTA […]
By Kevork KURDOGHLIAN The Glendale Unified School District board of education gave direction to Superintendent Sheehan and his staff to prepare possible guidelines and timelines for an appointment process to fill the seat left vacant by outgoing board president Mary Boger. Boger’s last day will be Aug. 31, from which point the board will have […]
By Kevork KURDOGHLIAN The Glendale Unified School District board of education postponed a vote on the proposed territory transfer between GUSD and La Cañada Unified at its July 8 meeting. Superintendent Richard Sheehan explained that the board did not want to feel “under the gun to vote.” He also added that they “don’t anticipate this […]
After a dozen years of service to the school district, Mary Boger resigns from board of education citing health issues. By Kevork KURDOGHLIAN Glendale Unified School District board of education president Mary Boger announced her resignation from the board during Tuesday’s school board meeting, citing a serious health issue as the primary reason for her […]
By Kevork KURDOGHLIAN A decision may be made soon on the contentious “Sagebrush” territory transfer issue. The Glendale Unified School District Governing Board continued discussions on the possible transfer at its June 17 board meeting. Tuesday’s 50-minute discussion on the issue made clear negotiations with La Cañada Unified School District have progressed successfully towards a […]
By Kevork KURDOGHLIAN The debate over the territory transfer of Sagebrush, the westernmost region of the City of La Cañada Flintridge that falls within Glendale Unified School District boundaries, reached its highest point of civility thus far on Tuesday evening in the Crescenta Valley High School auditorium during a public forum about the future of […]
»Politics: A Personal Perspective By Kevork KURDOGHLIAN The California Democrats State Convention on Saturday, March 8 held at the Los Angeles Convention Center was my first political convention. I’ve been enthralled by politics since I was 7 years old, since my first journalism class at Paradise Canyon Elementary in the summer of 2002, yet it […]