Remember the fallen. Honor those who serve. Teach the next generation the value of freedom. By Ruth SOWBY On Saturday, Dec. 13, at Verdugo Hills of Peace Pioneer Cemetery in Tujunga, wreaths were placed on the graves of 51 who fell in service to the United States. The wreaths were placed by Wreaths Across America, which […]
By Julie BUTCHER On Tuesday night, the Glendale City Council once again took up a request by Councilmember Vartan Gharpetian “to agendize a discussion of the removal of certain city-owned parking lots from consideration in the City-Owned Residential Overlay (CORO) in the General Plan Land Use Element Update and Surplus Lands Act (SLA) approvals.” Mayor […]
By Mary O’KEEFE On Dec. 3 the City of Glendale released a statement regarding the departure of Glendale Police Chief Manny Cid. Cid, who has been the GPD chief since January 2023, has accepted the position of police chief with the Anaheim Police Dept. “I had not been looking,” Cid said in an interview with […]
By Mary O’KEEFE It has been a terrible week: the shooting at Brown University in Rhode Island, the mass shooting in Australia targeting Jewish people celebrating the first day of Hanukkah, the death of Rob and Michele Reiner allegedly at the hands of their younger son and then the news that FBI agents, working with […]
Real Versus Fake I know I could be talking about a variety of things (real versus fake) but in keeping in the season, I’m talking about Christmas trees. I’m a “real” girl. Ever since I could remember we had a real Christmas tree. It’s funny but all of these years later I can’t remember actually […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The Chabad of the Crescenta Valley hosted The Chanukah Festival 2025 at Memorial Park in La Cañada Flintridge on the first day of Chanukah, Dec. 14. About 300 people attended the festive event. It was held after the news spread of the mass shooting in Australia at Sydney’s Bondi Beach. There were […]
GWP Goes Coal Free Glendale Water & Power’s (GWP) Intermountain Power Project (IPP) agreement has transitioned to a 100% coal-free energy resource, currently operating on natural gas while preparing for future hydrogen use. The plant is located near Delta, Utah and operated under the supervision of Los Angeles Dept. of Water & Power. This change […]
The Annual La Crescenta Christmas Tree Lighting occurred on Dec. 3 at the La Crescenta Library, 2809 Foothill Blvd. It started with Richard Woloski’s puppet show in the library’s community room followed by hot chocolate served by library staff and Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger. The event then moved outside with performances that included […]
Nothing Can Replace Human Response – Not Even AI By Mary O’KEEFE A 32-year-old Japanese woman has married her AI [Artificial Intelligence] “boyfriend/fiancé” in Okayama, Japan. The wedding took place on Oct. 27 after the AI the woman created, Klaus, apparently proposed to her. As reported in a Reuter’s article, “AI romance blooms as Japanese […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The Los Angeles County Fire Dept. responded to a house fire in the 2800 block of Alabama Street in La Crescenta on Tuesday night about 11 p.m. According to Maria Grycan, LACoFD spokesperson, it was an exterior fire due to malfunctioning holiday lights with no spread to the interior of the home.