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 Mary O’KEEFE The Crescenta Valley High School JROTC along with representatives from the American Legion Post 288 and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1614 held a flag retirement ceremony at the high school on Tuesday afternoon. The annual event is a way to dispose of tattered American flags in a respectful and honorable manner. […]
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 A solemn and meaningful Memorial Day ceremony was held at Two Strike Park early Monday morning. The sidewalk was lined with American flags and posters reminding the crowd why it was there. It was called the Walk of Honor and was a new addition to the Two Strike Park ceremony. Names of […]
“ June is bustin’ out all over…” — Oscar Hammerstein II Last Saturday, early morning, strong winds came blasting out of our canyons. Due to a high pressure system over the Great Basin creating this condition, Memorial Day weekend was very warm – 90 degrees. Many consider this time to be the start of summer. […]
Robin Goldsworthy from the desk of the publisher Montrose was host to a variety of activities. In addition to taking care of the girls getting ready for La Cañada and Crescenta Valley high school proms on Saturday, Kim and Kris and their crew at Merle Norman Cosmetics worked their magic on Joycie Dungca, the lovely […]
By Geghard ARAKELIAN Members of the foothills community gathered at the CV Park recreation room last Thursday for a presentation by county officials on a planned dog park. Attendees shared mixed feelings as some vigorously stated their concerns while proponents sighed at complaints aimed at the schematics of the park. Those who vehemently back the […]
Oh boy! It’s time to get those “green” shopping sacks together. You are going to need them for all the loot you will find at this year’s Arts & Crafts Festival. Did you know there are going to be over 425 artists, craftsmen, food vendors, farmers and musicians there? Yes, this year every booth is […]
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” Anne Frank Congratulations to the Desi Geestman Foundation on its new office location at 2620 Foothill Blvd. in La Crescenta and a huge thank you to the foundation for all the good it does to improve the quality […]