May 6 4400 block of Oak Grove Drive in La Cañada Flintridge, a catalytic converter was stolen from a vehicle parked at the Crescenta Cañada YMCA between 7:45 a.m. and 1:40 p.m. 1200 block of Journey’s End in La Cañada, the driver’s side front window was smashed and a global positioning system was stolen overnight. […]
By Mary O’KEEFE It was a wild ride at the Americana on Tuesday when a man allegedly punched the car of another driver, drove at a high rate of speed through the parking structure and broke the parking barricade as he sped out of the structure and into heavy pedestrian traffic. At about 7:30 p.m. […]
By Robin GOLDSWORTHY The community received a colorful reminder that Foothills Relay for Life is fast approaching. On the morning of April 30, about 20 members of various Relay teams converged onto Honolulu Avenue armed with bright purple paint used to paint footprints onto store windows along the avenue. And the direction the footprints were […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Los Angeles County Sheriff detectives are continuing their investigation into the murder of a woman whose body was dumped on the La Crescenta Avenue exit off the Foothill (210) freeway on April 29 shortly after 5 p.m. The woman identified as Adriane Arzumanyan, 33, was pronounced dead at the scene. The suspect, […]
by Jim Chase So moms, how was your Mother’s Day? Whether you spent it being pampered by loved ones, or pampering those you love, or a combination of both – I truly hope your day was less exciting and memorable than it was for my dear wife and for both of our mothers who celebrated […]
I’ve had a taste of old age recently, having both hips replaced in the last few months. I’ve had to rely on others for the simplest needs, wasn’t able to drive, and was limited in how far or how fast I could hobble around. Just picking something up off the floor became an epic battle […]
Councilmanic Districts – Time to Dust Off a Charter Amendment? Six years ago, while discussing the platform with John Drayman’s run for city council, council districts was one of the key discussion points. He was totally for it then. Montrose and the Annex had been the stepchildren of Glendale government for as long as John […]
Chamlian Armenian School in La Crescenta announced that on Tuesday, May 3 eighth grade student Hagop Margossian, one of five Chamlian State Science Fair finalists, received an honorable mention award. Hagop previously won first place at the county level competition before going off to state. His project was in the Applied Chemistry category titled, “Enzyme-catalyzed […]
The Fire House is a youth center that gives teens a place to go. It opened its doors in October 2010 for high school students and recently opened Thursday mornings for middle school students. The Fire House is on St. Luke’s of the Mountains property and has partnered with Crescenta Valley Drug and Alcohol Prevention […]
Contributed by Tricia FLYNN Students at St. James Elementary and Holy Redeemer Middle schools, touched by the tragedy in Japan, chose to “jump” in and help. The children created a “jump-a-thon” that would raise funds that would then be sent to relief agencies in the devastated nation. Each student received a sponsor chart to get […]