The Crescenta Valley Youth Town Council (CVYTC) continues to run like a well-oiled machine. Its seven members remain dedicated to their roles, despite the distractions of college applications, AP classes, and busy high school lives. The team is quickly filling up its schedule with a myriad of fun activities for the community. In recent news, […]
By Samantha SLAYBACK Last year, Monte Vista Elementary School implemented a book club for students. Since its beginning, the book club has taken off. Currently, students of the book club are reading the Brixton Brothers series, a children’s mystery series by bestselling author Mac Barnett. Barnett, 32, currently resides in Oakland, California. Along with his […]
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 […]