By Brandon HENSLEY The Crescenta Valley High School varsity softball team will be both talented and experienced enough to compete for a Pacific League championship next spring. But what’s a team to do if it doesn’t have a coach? Coach Mark Samford resigned in late May for personal reasons, forcing school administration to search for […]
By Brandon HENSLEY She was ready for her picture to be taken, so she went to pull out one of her headbands from a box. Which one, though? It looked like there were many to choose from. Which one would she want to show off? She found a red one and put it around her […]
Frustration continues for local residents as 18-wheel trucks take up chunks of parking along major streets. By Jason KUROSU The 4th of July celebrations at La Crescenta Elementary left many scrambling for a parking spot on Thursday. And there was little hope for free space on the freeway overpasses along Ramsdell, La Crescenta and Briggs […]
The Glendale Area Alumnae Panhellenic announced its 2013 scholarship recipients. Each year the organization raises money through a benefit luncheon in the spring to provide scholarships for area high school girls going to a four-year college or university, as well as to eligible college undergraduates who are members in good standing of one of the […]
The Waldheim family took CV Weekly with them to Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles for the launch of the Cal Phil summer season. CV Weekly proudly supports Cal Phil and Ryan Waldheim holds the program (with the concert stage in the background) that features CV Weekly. The Cal Phil season is just beginning; […]
“I have discovered that the world over, unusual weather prevails at all times of the year.” Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1875-1950 American writer and creator of ‘Tarzan’ Anyone yearning for the days gone by, when life was simpler? Stripped from modern technology, undeniably our ancestors dealt with life “full on” including abscessed teeth, chamber pots and […]
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Heart Full of Gratitude I want to share with you a wonderful experience I have had locally. My husband and I have visited the Garden Grill at 2309 Foothill Ave. in La Cañada for several years. We usually go a couple of times a month. You may not remember the rather non-descript business formerly located […]
Nannies Bag Another Victory Life has a way of creating ironic moments when you least expect it. For example, on Sunday my wife and I were returning from celebrating the long Independence Day holiday in the Eastern Sierra. Arriving back home in the sweltering Crescenta Valley, we made a quick stop at our usual local […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Graduating from any college is a challenge between admission competition, ever increasing costs and the struggles of getting into the right classes. It is difficult at best but, when the path to the graduation stage is littered with drug addiction, attaining a degree can be even more of a challenge. So when […]