By Mary O’KEEFE At Tuesday’s Glendale Unified School District board meeting the discussion of the open lunch campus policy at Crescenta Valley High School was an agenda item. The discussion was an update on the issue that had been approached last year by the district. The thought at the time was to change the policy […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Glendale Unified School District official kicked off its solar project at Crescenta Valley High School on Monday afternoon. With the flip of a switch, Marco Galang, a junior at CVHS, moved his school into a new solar future. Galang said solar power was an important green step for the school. “Our [Earth] […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Paul Crowder, the man convicted of murdering Crescenta Valley High School student Berlyn Cosman almost 20 years ago, was scheduled to go in front of a parole hearing on Wednesday in Orange County. Crowder, 40, is currently being held at Deuel Vocational Institution in Tracy. He was sentenced on Nov. 1, 1999 […]
By Mary O’KEEFE It is time once again for the Annual Crescenta Valley Town Council Pancake Breakfast on Sept. 29 from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. The CVTC Pancake Breakfast is held at Crescenta Valley High School, 2900 Community Ave., La Crescenta, and is a fundraiser to help the council’s scholarship program. Each year the […]
Call to action to raise funds for living quarters for foothills bear. By Mary O’Keefe Crescenta Valley Weekly and Prom Plus have joined with Lions, Tigers and Bears, an exotic animal sanctuary in east San Diego, to help Build A Bear … Habitat for Meatball. The fundraising has begun to help Meatball remain a California […]
Republican kick-off party and a meet and greet with a Democratic senator highlight the week. By Jason KUROSU “Hickory dickory dock, in 2012 we’ll be rid of Barack” read signs which lined the path outside the Jeffers Estate in La Cañada, site of the local Republican Campaign Kickoff Party on Sunday. Despite the shade the […]
By Mary O’KEEFE There was a new bear in town this weekend. “Rosie” the bear decided to take a stroll through the neighborhoods of La Crescenta early Sunday morning. California Department of Fish and Game officers named her Rosie since she spent so much time on Rosemont Avenue. It was early morning when calls began […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Firefighters at Glendale Fire Station 29 joined fellow firefighters and police officers throughout the country that took time early Tuesday morning to remember the attacks on American soil on Sept. 11, 2001. “On Sept. 11, 2001, 19 al Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial U.S. jetliners, deliberately crashing two of the planes into […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Parents are being reminded to speak to their children about “Stranger Danger” after a man reportedly exposed himself to a 16-year-old girl in the 4100 block of Ramsdell Avenue. The incident occurred on Sept. 6 at 3:45 p.m. when a teenager was waiting on Ramsdell Avenue for her mother. The teen reported […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Fremont Elementary students held a brief ceremony and took a moment of silence to remember those who died on 9/11. Sixth grader Q Flanagan-Gorham conducted the ceremony as Cub Scout Pack 304, Den 4 raised the American flag. Cub Scout members in attendance were Owen Clark, Jackson Bullard, Jared Noh, Nick Martin, […]