Students Prepare for Finals Week

By Joyce LEE, intern In the midst of decorating Christmas trees and shopping for holiday gifts, the hearts of students at Crescenta Valley High School are not at ease – the dreaded finals week is approaching. Finals week begins on Tuesday, Dec. 16 and ends on Thursday, Dec. 18. The week wraps up the school’s […]

Weather in the Foothills

“It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas Ev’rywhere you go; Take a look at the five and ten glistening once again With candy canes and silver lanes aglow…” ~ Songwriter Meredith Willson, 1951 Once again, the annual Montrose Christmas Parade made its way down our “silver lane(s) aglow” – Honolulu Avenue. Last week’s rains […]

YOUTH NOTES

ComedySportz Crescenta Valley HS varsity ComedySportz team will take on Loyola HS on Friday, Dec. 12 at 5: 30 p.m. in the Underground Theater at CVHS. The theater is located at the front of the school at 2900 Community Ave. Student tickets are $5 and adults are $10. Arrive early as the small theater often […]

Gorvetzian Family to Receive YMCA Pacesetter Award

The YMCA of the Foothills presented the 2014 YMCA Pacesetter Award to the Gorvetzian family at a special donor recognition event on Dec. 4 at Oakmont Country Club. Hosted by YMCA board of director chair Kristin McQueen, the event featured special impact testimonials and a Christmas tree silent auction. Funds raised will support the Youth […]

Reliving the Championship Game

Reliving the Championship Game

Falcons win CIF to cap perfect season.   By Brandon HENSLEY It was tough for Hudson Gossard to find words for what just happened last Friday night at Glendale High School. He paused frequently and looked down, then up, then down again. What could he say? His Falcons were champions at last. “It’s pretty surreal. […]

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Thanks to Montrose Parade Committee Thank you to Cheryl Davis and the Montrose Christmas Parade Assn. volunteers for their efforts and energy for putting together another great Christmas parade for all of us! It is events like this that make me glad I am raising my daughter in La Crescenta. It reminds me of growing […]

Council Returns PPD for Redesign

By Jason KUROSU The Glendale City Council voted against approving a request for a Precise Plan of Design (PPD) overlay zone for a development at 1407 Glenoaks Blvd. Tuesday night. The proposed development was the subject of a contentious Glendale City Council meeting, in which residents attended en masse to voice their opposition to the […]

Community’s Help Needed

On Nov. 23 at 9:32 a.m. an unknown male and unknown female entered the Rite-Aid in the city of La Cañada Flintridge. They slowly went through several aisles of the store, adding items to a cart and filling it completely. At 12:27 p.m., the female pushed the cart full of merchandise out of the store […]

News from CV Alliance

Hi, CV! On behalf of CV Alliance, we wish the Falcons the best of luck on your road to state. If you are watching football as I am, you are undoubtedly familiar with the anti-domestic violence commercials starring NFL players, #NoMore. If you want to learn more about this topic, come out tonight for the […]

Planetary Science Finds Support from Congress

Support from Congress for Mars 2020 and Europa missions comes after proposed cut from White House earlier this year. On Wednesday, Congressman Adam Schiff announced that the FY 2015 Omnibus Appropriations package, also known as the CRomnibus, significantly upped funding for planetary science programs, as well as supporting the full range of NASA priorities in […]