818 Roundup: Maple Park upgrades, Burbank PD seeks man who reportedly masturbated in front of students
Rachel Barker, 19, of Tujunga, with the help of personal trainer Tony Snyder, left, works out in the recently built area designated only for those age 12 and older, at Maple Park in Glendale on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014.
(Raul Roa / Staff Photographer)
Greetings, readers. Today is Friday, September 5. Temperatures today are forecasted to reach a high of 87 degrees in the Glendale area and a low of 68.
Headlines from the area:
A multiyear effort to bring improvements to Maple Park in Glendale is done — complete with boulders from Deukmejian Park — and a grand reopening is slated for Tuesday.
Police are searching for a man who was reportedly masturbating in his car in front of two John Burroughs High School students on Wednesday afternoon.
Glendale school officials are moving to change the district’s voting system from an at-large one to a district-based system to remove the school district from scrutiny under the California Voting Rights Act and the potential for litigation.
- A mural project that recently spruced up Glendale-owned utility boxes will head to Montrose this fall.
- A year after switching over to an all-digital cable TV network in Glendale, Burbank and La Canada, Charter Communications has implemented a series of enhancements that have boosted Internet connection speeds and added more than 120 high-definition channels.