LA CAÑADA GLADIATORS

  Jr. Gremlin Flag La Cañada Gladiators 21 – Baldwin Park Roadrunners 0   No report submitted.     Gremlins La Cañada 26 – Baldwin Park Roadrunners 0   The La Cañada Gladiators Gremlins visited the Baldwin Park Road Runners on Sunday, Sept. 16 at noon at Baldwin Park High School. The game broke open […]

OLL Benefits from Fun Run

What would it take for students to toss a few water balloons at their school principal? The kids at Our Lady of Lourdes School held a Fun Run fundraiser and earned just that treat. Principal Evelyn Cortes battled the students in a water balloon fight as a reward after for raising over $7,000 in two […]

NEWs FROM SACRAMENTO » Laura FRIEDMAN

Solutions For All Of Us 63,632. That’s how many people the Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported suffered overdose deaths in the United States in 2016 – the number is rising. The statistics make it clear that addiction is becoming more prevalent and deadly every year. In response, there has also been a dramatic […]

Local Students Win Big at Broadcom Nationals

Local Students Win Big at Broadcom Nationals

By Lori BODNAR, intern Mahesh Arunachalam and Mihir Manchikatla, two seventh grade students attending Rosemont Middle School, recently placed in the Top 300 National Winners for the Broadcom MASTERS national STEM competition. STEM stands for science, technology, engineering and math. The Broadcom MASTERS is a program supported by the Society for Science & the Public, […]

Treasures of the Valley » Mike Lawler

CV’s First Inhabitants – Hunting   As I have mentioned in previous columns, the Tongva people of the Los Angeles area enjoyed a rich and nutritious diet. Besides the variety of plants they ate, they had a wide array of high-protein meat available. While the coast natives were awash in seafood (pun-intended), the inland natives […]

CRIME BLOTTER

Sept. 16 3100 block of Harmony Place in La Crescenta, a woman reported placing mail on her mailbox intending for it to be picked up by the mail carrier the next day. She also left clothing and a DVD player inside a paper bag on her porch. When she returned the mail and the paper […]

Maria Antonia Zuniga

Sept. 17, 2018 On Monday, the 17th of September, Maria Antonia Zuniga, known to all who loved her as Mary, passed on to her eternal rest in God our Savior at the age of 79. She was preceded in death by her husband Osacar Zuniga, and her parents, Aurelio and Amalia Ruiz. Mary’s life is […]

Vons Employee Assaulted

By Mary O’KEEFE Glendale police responded to a call concerning a robbery in progress at Vons Market in the 3200 block of Foothill Boulevard on Sunday at 6:34 p.m. When officers arrived the suspect had fled. The Vons employee told officers that he had witnessed a man, described as Hispanic in his 20s, about 6’ […]

Ruth Ada Cassara

Feb. 12, 1939 – Sept. 9, 2018 Ruth Ada Cassara was born on Feb. 12, 1939 in Kendall, Wisconsin and raised in La Crescenta. She and her husband Victor Cassara resided in Sunland. Ruth was 17 when she married Victor. Her faith and their shared belief in family values were the foundation for their marriage […]

County Presentation on CVTC Agenda

The Crescenta Valley Town Council meets tonight, Thursday, Sept. 20 at the La Crescenta Library community room. On the agenda is a presentation to the Council by the Los Angeles County Parks & Rec of the final rendering for the Two Strike Park Median Tree Project. The Arroyo Verdugo Communities Joint Powers Authority (AVCJPA), consist […]