By Leonard COUTIN The Falcons hosted their first Pacific League tri-meet against the Burroughs Indians and the Hoover Tornadoes on Thursday, March 12. The Falcon boys knew it was going to be tough to beat the Indians who were state cross-country champions last season. Burroughs had a remarkable season and hoped to maintain their winning […]
The Crescenta Valley High School cycling team opened the 2015 SoCal season with a solid performance at Lake Perris on Sunday, Feb. 22. After months of training, thousands of miles and astronomical amounts of climbing, teams representing 73 schools were ready to race. In an atmosphere similar to a professional cycling event, the phenomenal […]
By David O’CONNOR Even without leading singles player, Arin Meserkhani, the Crescenta Valley Falcons varsity boys’ tennis team easily bounced back from two successive defeats by outclassing hosts Whittier Christian High School, 17-1 in a non-league contest on Tuesday. Meserkhani, who has been a massive contributor to the Falcons superb 6-2 start to the season, […]
By Michael J. ARVIZU his year, on April 24, the world will commemorate the 100th anniversary of what is traditionally considered to be the beginning of the 1915 Armenian Genocide. I admit I know very little about the Armenian Genocide. I remember learning a lot about the Jewish Holocaust while in school – studying […]
For the fourth consecutive year, Hayden Dinger, a freshman at St. Francis High School, and his twin brother Carl, a freshman at Crescenta Valley High School, are holding a canned tuna drive they call Love and Fishes. It started when they found out that roughly 1,200 people in their hometown of Glendale go to bed […]
MVCOC KICKS OFF POKER CHAMPIONSHIP The Montrose-Verdugo City Chamber of Commerce will be hosting its inaugural Montrose Poker Championship. The event will take place on March 26 and will be held at Crescenta Valley Insurance. Check-in and dinner will be at 6 p.m. and cards will be dealt at 7 p.m. The cost to play […]
Jim Morrison and The Doors Played a Concert at CV High School It sounds incredible but it’s true. On May 26, 1967, one of the biggest rock groups of the ‘60s, The Doors, played a short set for students in MacDonald Auditorium at our own Crescenta Valley High School. Accounts of this concert come to […]
My husband Scott and I watched, “Out of Reach,” the documentary we showed on Tuesday night about teens abusing pills. I asked how he would describe it and he said, “Behind-the-scenes look” and he’s right! The filmmaker didn’t know what was going on in his own school so he made a movie for adults equally […]
U.S. Needs to Catch Up on Implementing Earthquake Early Warning System While the United States is the most technologically advanced country in the world, we still lag dangerously behind other countries in implementing one key technology that can save lives, property and infrastructure – an earthquake early warning system. Imagine getting a warning a few […]
By Jason KUROSU The City of Glendale’s April 7 election will determine who fills the two available seats on the Glendale Unified School District board of education. A Thursday night forum at the La Crescenta Library hosted by the CV Town Council provided voters with an opportunity to meet the five candidates and hear their […]