By Mary O’KEEFE In 2009, sports apparel icon Nike launched the 3ON3 basketball tournament at L.A. Live, the entertainment and sports district surrounding the Staples Center and Nokia Theatre. At that first event, there were over 500 teams and more than 13,000 players and spectators. The event has grown by almost three times the original […]
The team makes annual trek to Mammoth training camp. By Dennis OLIVER On Saturday, July 28, 48 members of the Crescenta Valley Cross Country Team headed north to Mammoth for their 22nd annual training camp. The camp is held in Mammoth Mountain RV Park in a large tent camping area. Besides the 48 current runners, […]
The Full Force Basketball Hawks took the Impact Summer League championship with an exciting double overtime win. Hawks point guard Tyler Carlson, who had six points, six rebounds and five steals, scored the first six points to start the game, but the Impact team scored the next 11 to lead at half time 11-6. With […]
The Crescenta Valley Falcon varsity football team will be kicking off its season the week school goes back in session. On Aug. 23 the Falcons will play a preseason scrimmage against Monrovia at 4 p.m. at CV High School. The games start for real on Aug. 31 when CV travels to Santa Paula High School […]
With just 10 days left before school resumes for Glendale Unified School District students, here’s some suggestions on how they can spend the last few precious days before they happily (?) go back to school. Summer Beach Bus This is a great, cheap way to get to the beach and away from the current heat […]
They did it! Those amazing engineers and scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory invented a robot that flew 352 million miles from Earth to land on a very precise little piece of land on Mars. After years of development and testing, the Mars Science Laboratory with its rover Curiosity landed on Mars. I have been […]
City Hopes to Continue GTV6 Broadcasting As you may have read, the court has sided with Charter Communications over the debate involving the use of a fiber optic network and the use of public, education and government television fees. Although [the Glendale City Council] respectfully disagrees with the court’s findings, I wanted to assure the […]
Sanitariums in CV – A Little More on Hillcrest Sanitarium Before I launch into Kimball Sanitarium, the most infamous of the local sanitariums, I’ll backtrack a little and add some new info about Hillcrest Sanitarium. As regular readers know, Hillcrest was located at the top of Lowell Avenue on a plateau overlooking the valley. It […]
Becoming a Podium Pundit If medals were awarded for watching Olympics coverage, I’d win gold. Guaranteed. I’m an Olympics junkie. People who know me know I’ve never followed professional basketball or football (although I do like to watch the Super Bowl every year strictly for the commercials), and most baseball games can put me out […]
By Brandon HENSLEY Joe’s Minibike Reunion Tour came and went last Saturday at Crescenta Valley Park, but not before it left an impression on the community. The event was a showcase for all kinds of minibikes, be classic or custom built, and was headed up by La Crescenta resident Joe Sebergandio, who may now be […]