Mountain Street

GLENDALE — The ballooning cost of a Mountain Street widening project has forced Glendale Community College to call a special meeting today to decide how to pay for $760,000 in unforeseen costs. College trustees will consider three ways to fund the street-widening project, which is tied to the campus' much-anticipated parking structure. The three options boil down to either taxpayers, students or the college bearing the brunt of $760,000 in costs, which have forced the project's total price tag up to $1.7 million.

NORTHWEST GLENDALE — It took a 16-year-old to slam his Lexus into Craig and Tammi Relyea’s brick retaining wall Wednesday night for them to realize that repeated calls to Glendale Police wouldn’t be enough to curb what they say is an increase in speeders along their street. Perched atop a small hill on the corner of Ard Eevin Avenue and Mountain Street, the Relyeas’ home was never in danger of being hit, but the car did leave a scar in their yard Wednesday after the driver lost control of his Lexus LS400 as he came east around the curved intersection at about 11:50 p.m., according to a California Highway Patrol report.

Darleene Barrientos District officials Tuesday will discuss how a mudslide from its hillsides might complicate plans to widen Mountain Street and build Glendale Community College's new parking structure. After three weeks of heavy rain, a slope owned by the Glendale Unified School District gave way after the mudslide, which also shut down Mountain Street for several days. The district, college and city had already been working on plans to widen Mountain Street to accommodate extra traffic expected when the college builds its 1,100-space parking structure.

SATELLITE LIBRARY The council voted unanimously to allow the city clerk to advertise for bids to make improvements to a southeast Glendale storefront that will house a new satellite city library. WHAT IT MEANS Improvements can begin on the storefront to make way for the library. This satellite library — to be at 1100 E. Chevy Chase Drive — will be temporary until a full-scale branch library can be built in the area. VOTE: 3-0 STREET LIGHT SYSTEM The council voted unanimously to contract with KDC Inc. to install a streetlight system along several streets in Northeast Glendale.

Claudia Peschiutta ROSSMOYNE -- The usual peacefulness on Mountain Street was broken Friday afternoon when several Glendale Police officers responded to a call for help. A Glendale man was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon for allegedly striking his mother with pool-cleaning equipment, Glendale Police Sgt. Tom Kuh said. The woman refused medical treatment, he said. Kuh could not say why so many officers responded to the woman's call, which was made shortly before 5 p.m. More than an hour later, curious commuters drove slowly down the street looking at the three remaining Glendale Police cars.

Drum Line Competition ? Saturday, April 14 starting at 9 a.m. Pasadena City College will be hosting an all-day drum line competition on Saturday, April 14 that features more than 50 groups from Southern California. The PCC band program fundraiser will begin at 9 a.m. in PCC's Hutto-Patterson Gym. PCC Director of Bands Kyle Luck describes the event as being "very entertaining to watch. Each school puts in countless hours of practice and work each week for a five-minute show."

Buck Wargo CITY HALL -- A Mercedes Benz limosine caught fire on the Glendale (2) Freeway Monday morning, receiving $15,000 in damage. Glendale firefighters were called to the burning vehicle at 9:24 a.m. just north of Mountain Street on the Glendale (2) Freeway. The fire started on the right side of the engine and spread. The limo was headed south when the fire broke out. No one was injured and the cause of the fire remains unknown, said department spokesman Chief Steve Howard.

Amber Willard NORTHWEST GLENDALE -- A Glendale man was arrested on suspicion of felony assault for allegedly hitting his mother in the head with a metal pole used to clean swimming poles. Craig R. Alan was also arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated Friday evening. The 38-year-old hit his mother in the head during an argument in which he also pushed her into the family's pool in the 1300 block of East Mountain Street, police said.

Gretchen Hoffman Glendale Police are looking for someone who snatched two women's purses in two recent incidents. A woman told police she was walking to the bus stop at Brand Boulevard and Mountain Street about 8 a.m. Sunday when she felt a sharp tug on her arm, according to the police report. The next thing she remembers is being helped up from the ground by a bus driver, and her purse was missing. The purse was later found in Burbank. Another woman told police she was walking east on Loraine Street near the intersection with Central Avenue about 8:35 p.m. Sunday when a man grabbed her purse and ran away.

GLENDALE — The black hen near Glendale Community College that became an international story has found itself a new home, at a chicken coop in Simi Valley. On Sunday, Berna Arnold did what animal control officers could not — she caught the chicken on the busy street corner and gave it a home on her ¾-acre rural lot in Simi Valley. She named the hen Lucky. “She is lucky that she didn’t get hit by a car and lucky to have a great new home to go to,” Berna Arnold said.

NORTHWEST GLENDALE — Crime tips from residents led to the arrest Friday of a 16-year-old boy and two men on suspicion of actual or attempted burglary of a vehicle and homes, police said. The arrests came days after residents in northwest Glendale reported 16 burglaries in one day. Residents along Royal Boulevard, Idlewood Road and Prospect Avenue noticed the boy, 30-year-old Highland Park resident Francisco Moncada and 30-year-old Eagle Rock resident Julian Gayona acting suspicious and immediately called police, Glendale Police Sgt. Tom Lorenz said.

A brush fire that broke out at about 2:15 p.m. today near the Ventura (134) and Glendale (2) freeways that grew to more than 40 acres is now 70% contained, officials reported. Water-dropping helicopters continued to buzz back and forth from Silver Lake in Los Angeles as fire crews from Burbank, Glendale, Los Angeles city and county and Pasadena battled the blaze that had crested over the hillside and threatened homes in the Glenoaks Canyon area. Glendale police have blocked access to the area, and had called for a voluntary evacuation of homes in the 2100 to 2300 blocks of Glenoaks Boulevard.

The following were taken from reports filed at the Glendale Police Department: ? ? 400 block of West Stocker Street: Silver Hanger Cleaners reported Thursday that they were burglarized. Someone pried open the front door and stole two suits, two Persian rugs, a wedding dress, four boxes of cleaning chemicals, a credit card machine, check processing machine, $5,000 in cash and change, a laptop, and hangers. ? 1700 block of Mountain Street: A 34-year-old Glendale woman reported Sunday that she heard someone break open a home?

How about federal funds for a printer? In order to prevent traffic snarls due to the Winter Wonderland event at Brand Park, each year the Glendale Parks Department puts up “temporary no parking” signs on one side of Western Avenue between Bel Aire Drive and Mountain Street. On Feb. 5, just before it started to rain, park personnel were out stapling up the signs to support that weekend’s event. Alas, since the signs were not waterproof, the rain-softened paper fell off the trees and light poles.

NORTHWEST GLENDALE — It took a 16-year-old to slam his Lexus into Craig and Tammi Relyea’s brick retaining wall Wednesday night for them to realize that repeated calls to Glendale Police wouldn’t be enough to curb what they say is an increase in speeders along their street. Perched atop a small hill on the corner of Ard Eevin Avenue and Mountain Street, the Relyeas’ home was never in danger of being hit, but the car did leave a scar in their yard Wednesday after the driver lost control of his Lexus LS400 as he came east around the curved intersection at about 11:50 p.m., according to a California Highway Patrol report.

GLENDALE — Construction began on the south side of Mountain Street near Glendale Community College on Monday, marking the final stretch toward the completion of the school's much-anticipated, $24.7-million parking structure. The work will come with some inconvenience to commuters, summer school students and bargain hunters, officials said, as construction will prompt increased traffic congestion and the closure of the college's monthly swap meet. "As with any kind of construction work, there's some level of inconvenience, but we ask for people's patience as we work through the project," said Steve Zurn, public works director for the city of Glendale, which is teaming with the college for the work.