When 5-to-8 year old kids play fall ball together, they’re not really supposed to keep score. But entering their final game on Saturday, the CSA Dodgers had yet to be outscored by an opponent. They were unofficially undefeated. Not that anyone’s counting. This was the only Pinto/Shetland team with girls on the roster (three). With […]
Photos by Dan HOLM Crescenta Valley senior Tony Royer (10) pushes the ball upfield in the Falcons’ 2-1 win over Crespi High School on Dec. 5 at CV High School. Royer collected an assist, while senior Matt Ryan and junior Jason Winicki scored CV’s goals. Royer leads the team in assists with three, while Ryan […]
By Brandon HENSLEY While shoppers are running around searching for gifts this holiday season, students from the Rosemont Middle School cross-country team have just been plain running, and on Saturday they’ll put their months of preparation to the test in the annual Run4Fun. Rosemont will compete in the race, which is a 2K, or 1.25 […]
CVHS boys’ varsity basketball is hosting its annual Falcon Classic Tournament through Dec. 13. Games will be played today, Thursday at 4 p.m., 5:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Four games will be played on Friday at 3:15 p.m., 4:45 p.m. and 6:15 p.m., ending with the championship game at 7:45 p.m. A toy and food […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Jet Propulsion Laboratory hosted its annual Invention Challenge on Friday. High school students as well as JPL employees and their families were challenged this year to create a device that could deliver a golf ball in a “hole in one.” According to the JPL rules, the device invented has to “propel and/or […]
Once again the Crescenta Valley High School football and baseball teams banded together to bring Christmas trees to Crescenta Valley. Orders were placed weeks ago and on Saturday, between rainstorms, the boys unloaded the trees from the truck and loaded them onto the vehicles of waiting customers. Trees and wreaths were available and the sales […]
New Local Film – “The Trails of La Cañada” I’ve often written about the mountains surrounding us and the wonderful hiking opportunities near the Crescenta Valley. Surprisingly, the highest concentration of hiking trails is right next door to us, within the small city of La Cañada Flintridge. La Cañada, which many of us view as […]
Christmas by Choice It often seems as if Christmas time is all about making choices. See? I just made one right there – choosing to use the traditional name of the holiday instead of the secularly sanitized euphemism, “Holiday season.” But this column is not an update from that battlefront. The Christmas choices I’m thinking […]
Greetings from CV Alliance! Thanks to the 12 insightful teens from CV Alliance’s Youth Alliance, ASB, Fire House and Prom Plus who read and discussed topics raised by Jim Smiley’s students in their letters from CV kids to CV adults. Eighty attended this forum on Thursday night. The CV Alliance Youth Alliance meets on Dec. […]
The Young Get It On Friday night, a man robbed the Rite Aid at the Ralphs market plaza at the corner of Rosemont Avenue and Foothill Boulevard. There were some intense moments as the gunman had barricaded himself in the [nearby] Verizon store and for a time it was not known his state of mind […]