On March 4, under sorely missed sunny skies, Crescenta Valley United Softball Association kicked off its inaugural season at the Glendale Sports Complex. Born out of a merger between CSA Softball and CVGSA Softball (formerly CVLL Softball), CV United offers girls throughout the Crescenta Valley and Glendale, the opportunity to play in a single league […]
By Leonard COUTIN This past weekend, Californian distance runners got a chance to strut their feathers as they participated in the Distance Meet of Champions High School Distance Classic held on the Azusa Pacific University track. Sponsored by Adidas, this meet is unique; it only runs the 800m, 1600m and 3200m races, starts at 7:30 […]
By Mary O’KEEFE It was Tomatomania at Descanso Gardens last weekend. Information on everything gardeners wanted or needed to know about tomatoes, including what best to plant in the Crescenta Valley area, was provided by experts in bright green shirts and garden hats. For many, attending the Tomatomania event is a tradition that started in […]
By Andy Gero Camp Lejeune vs. Water U.S. Marines who were stationed at Camp Lejeune between Aug. 1, 1953 and Dec. 31, 1987 for more than 30 days may have been exposed to the drinking water that was laced with fuel and dry-cleaning fluid. The 30 days may be consecutive or non-consecutive. If in fact […]
Selling By Owner Dear Phyllis, Our elderly mother lived in her home for more than 30 years and just passed. Her next door neighbor was very kind and did a lot of nice things for her such as taking trash cans out and in. This neighbor wants to buy her home […]
Since April 2014, local resident Elsa Frausto has served as Sunland-Tujunga’s poet laureate – a post that she considers the crowning point of her decades of writing and publishing career. “The Poet Laureate program was established to honor and continue the legacy of John Steven McGroarty, a man of his time. Aspirations change but at […]
Crescenta Valley High School robotics students enjoyed traveling with the CV Weekly to the FIRST Robotics Competition – Regional in Ventura. They were joined by members from surrounding teams including La Cañada High School’s FRC 2429 Blockheads. CV Weekly loves to travel! Take us along on your next trip and send us a photo. […]
By Susan JAMES In a 2007 Ferrari F430 I was doing 170 mph down the runway with driver Eric’s casual hand on the wheel while above us crack aerobatics pilot Rob Harrison, aka “The Tumbling Bear,” was rolling around in the sky in his Zlin 142C airplane. It was the 4th annual LA County Air […]
Charly and Sabrina Shelton are on their whirlwind trip around Ireland and they took CVWeekly along with them. Here they are in front of Blarney Castle, the famed castle THAT houses the Blarney Stone. The current keep was conceived and built by the MacCarthys of Muskerry in 1446 on the site of a former wooden […]
By Nestor CASTIGLIONE “The future is female,” a slogan with roots in the 1970s, was one among many that captured the imaginations of many in peculiarly slogan-rich 2016. But we forget that the past, too, has been female – though that story sometimes has been forgotten, if not deliberately buried. Case in point: The music […]