A Haunted Good Time

  No need to go anywhere else for a Halloween haunt. Crescenta Valley has lots to offer. By Mary O’KEEFE After a nine-year hiatus, the Haunted Jail is back. Most who have lived in Crescenta Valley for over 10 years will remember the Haunted Jail either from walking through it or volunteering to work on […]

CHP: Keeping the Streets Safe After the Bars Close

By Mary O’KEEFE Over 180,000 people were arrested for Driving Under the Influence (DUI) in 2011, according to the Dept. of Motor Vehicles in September 2013. CV Weekly was recently on a ride-along with the California Highway Patrol out of the Altadena station with Officer Ryan Bejar. The CHP at the Altadena office was concentrating […]

Families Put on Walking Shoes for Annual Walk to School Day

By Mary O’KEEFE On Oct. 8, Glendale Unified School District students joined children across the world for International Walk to School Day. All the GUSD schools and several private schools joined in the walk. It is estimated that throughout the United States over 5,000 schools participated in the healthy event. The International Walk and Bike […]

Driving the Streets is Their Job

By Mary O’KEEFE Recently CVW was allowed to ride along with California Highway Patrol Officer Ryan Bejar and Officer Manuel Rodriguez on two separate occasions. The first ride along was during the day with Officer Rodriguez, who works out of the Altadena CHP office. Most Crescenta Valley residents would recognize Officer Manuel Rodriguez when he […]

Pursuit Ends on Pennsylvania

By Mary O’KEEFE At about 4 p.m. on Tuesday, a California Highway Patrol captain was driving in a CHP emergency vehicle traveling westbound on the Foothill (210) Freeway at Wheatland Avenue when he noticed a sedan traveling at high speeds behind him. The vehicle drove past the CHP captain at unsafe speeds, according to Officer […]

Russell Ready to Take on New Role of School Board Member

By Mary O’KEEFE At the Oct. 8 Glendale Unified School District special board meeting, Sandy Russell was named as the interim school board member to fill the seat left vacant by Mary Boger. “What a great opportunity this is to learn something firsthand that can help me advocate for kids later on,” Russell said of […]

So Many Choices, So Little Time

With so much to do in the Crescenta Valley and surrounding areas this weekend, folks are going to have to strap on their rollerblades to make it to all the events. By Michael ARVIZU, Mary O’KEEFE and Isiah REYES To say Crescenta Valley is a busy place on a typical weekend is an understatement, but […]

Animals Receive Special Blessing

By Mary O’KEEFE On Sunday several local churches held Blessing of the Animals ceremonies. The event always takes place on a Sunday near Oct. 3, the date Francis of Assisi, later St. Francis, died. Francis is the patron saint of ecology. At the ceremony at St. Luke’s of the Mountains Episcopal Church, Vicar Bryan Jones […]

A ‘Reptacular’ Event at Foothill Retirement Center

A ‘Reptacular’ Event at Foothill Retirement Center

By Mary O’KEEFE Often as one ages, there are times of seemingly irrational fear. It can be a fear that, 20 or 30 years earlier, would not have even entered the realm of possibility; however, as we age there it is. But at a recent event at Foothill Retirement Care in Tujunga, fear was nowhere […]

Fire Quickly Extinguished in Montrose

By Mary O’KEEFE On Wednesday, Glendale Fire Dept. responded to the 3600 block of Ocean View Boulevard concerning smoke coming from the lower floor of the structure. Andre Ordubegian, president of the Montrose Shopping Park Association and owner of Copy Network which is located on the upper floor of the complex, said he smelled smoke. […]