Glendale Community College (GCC), in collaboration with the San Gabriel Band of Mission Indians Gabrieleño/Tongva, presented the college’s land acknowledgment in a ceremony held on Nov. 14 in the college’s Student Center and outside the college’s Tongva Building at the Verdugo campus. An introduction and speakers including representatives of the San Gabriel Band of Mission […]
Rosemont Middle School students plant a tree that has roots that extend to the stars. By Mary O’KEEFE Rosemont Middle School science students gathered around a small tree on Monday. School custodians had dug a hole where the tree was going to be planted. The students were all smiles and excited when two girls […]
By Julie BUTCHER At the beginning of Tuesday night’s meeting, the Glendale City Council adopted a proclamation recognizing Saturday, Nov. 30 as Small Business Saturday and urged Glendale residents to shop locally at small businesses, particularly on that day. “Sixty cents of every dollar spent at a small business goes back into the local community,” […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The Friends of Rockhaven and the City of Glendale have entered into an agreement regarding Rockhaven Sanitarium. This will end a lawsuit that was filed over a year ago, in April 2023, by Friends of Rockhaven, the non-profit organization formed to help support and protect the Rockhaven Sanitarium site. Members of Friends […]
New Places, New Friends One thing about Crescenta Valley residents – we know that not everything is available to us here in town. For example, I have to call elsewhere to get a 3-yard bin to start cleaning out my garage (ugh – don’t even get me started on that chore!). We’ll travel for major […]
By Mary O’KEEFE In the circles in which I travel there is a lot of concern about what the future for climate change research holds and as a mom and a grandma I share in this concern. But then I remember one of my favorite quotes from one of my favorite movies. It is […]
CCLCF Thanksgiving Day 5K Run/Walk The Community Center of La Cañada Flintridge’s Thanksgiving Day 5K Run/Walk returns on Thursday, Nov. 28. The professionally timed race, now in its third decade, begins at 8:30 a.m. at Olberz Park, One Civic Center Drive in La Cañada Flintridge. Cash prizes will be given to the top three finishers […]
By Charly SHELTON This past weekend, the Natural History Museum (NHM) of Los Angeles County opened its doors to its brand-new NHM Commons wing, a $75 million expansion that redefines what a museum space can be. Nestled on the southwest side of the museum’s campus in Exposition Park, NHM Commons aims to be more than […]
Glendale Unified School District (GUSD) and the Glendale Teachers Association (GTA) has reached a tentative agreement with (GTA) for the 2023-24 and 2024-25 school years. The tentative agreement includes an ongoing 4% wage increase retroactive to July 1, 2023 and an additional 2% one-time payment for the 2024-25 school year. It also includes updated standards […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Last weekend, Scouts for Food collected hundreds of bags of groceries donated by local neighbors. On Nov. 9 Scout troops dropped off empty bags to local residents asking people to fill the bags up with non-perishable items. Then on Nov. 16 the Scouts picked up the bags filled with donations. There were […]