This is Yankee! He is a 12-year-old Australian shepherd. Just before his 12th birthday on the 4th of July, his family turned him into the Glendale Humane Society because they were moving away. The next morning Tom and Alyce of the society told me about him as my Aussie had died a few months earlier. […]
By Lisa PAREDES Montrose has a four-legged surfing champion. Hanzo the “Samurai Surf Dog,” was recently inducted into the International Surf Dog Walk of Fame in Huntington Beach, along with two other popular surfing dogs, Sugar and Abbie Girl. The nearly 6-year-old boxer lives with his human family Eric, Miho and Hugo Felland, along with […]
Gender Equality in High School Sports Started Here I think parents with daughters here in CV would agree that the athletic opportunities afforded to girls are on par with those offered to boys. Today’s girls play on soccer teams, basketball teams, baseball and softball. Save for the last bastion of football, girls growing up in […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The year is 2025 and California has been in a drought for decades. The once green landscape has turned to dry and dying vegetation, and those who have survived have one purpose – to find water. But sometimes that which we search for, once found, is not our savior but our tormentor… […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Briggs Terrace residents had a visitor last weekend that liked the area so much it didn’t want to leave. On Friday afternoon a resident found a bear lounging on her patio deck. The bruin then took a stroll around her yard. According to residents, the Crescenta Valley Sheriff Station was contacted and […]
By Jason KUROSU Glendale Police Officer and CV Alliance member Joe Allen stopped by the Crescenta Valley High School Career Center on Monday night during a PTSA meeting. He made a presentation on teenage drug use, the current availability of drugs and the ease with which information on obtaining and producing drugs can be had […]
Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy recently held its 40th Annual Harry G. Johansing Golf Tournament and Dinner. To celebrate the landmark year, FSHA honored five men who were integral to the beginnings of the golf tournament: John Krappman (in place of his father, Andy Krappman), Angelo Mozilo, Bob Pernecky, Mike Smith and Tim Smith. The event […]
By Charly SHELTON As I sit down to write this article, I have a snack with me. A moist, delicious chocolate and vanilla marble cake. I have been saving this cake for almost a week specifically for when I write this article because I knew it would be so good that it would take me […]
Dilbeck Estates recently hosted an elegant event for its top producing sales partners and estate agents. The event was held at a listing of Tracie Heileson, an estates director in the La Cañada office. What is especially noteworthy of this 1927 English Revival compound, now restored to perfection, is that it was designed by legendary […]
By Susan JAMES What is a showrunner, you ask? If you are on Facebook or Twitter you already know that the showrunner is the person in charge of your favorite TV show – the one you send nasty tweets to if you don’t like the direction the show is going. Irish writer-director Des Doyle has […]