By Jason KUROSU While budget cuts continue to plague California’s universities, the state’s community colleges face similar obstacles, including a potential $800 million reduction in funding (approximately 10% of the budget). The result of such a deep cut could be a denial of up to 400,000 prospective students to California community colleges. With per unit […]
The California Highway Patrol is asking for the public’s help in finding the driver of a vehicle involved in a fatal accident early this morning. The CHP Altadena Area Office is investigating a fatal collision that took place Tuesday morning at about 2:35 a.m. The collision occurred on southbound the Golden State Freeway I-5 just […]
Sheriff detectives are asking for the public’s help in identifying three men who robbed three Montrose women at gun point early Friday morning. The women, all in their late teens, were returning from Hollywood at 3:40 a.m. “They pulled into their driveway (in the 2400 block of Florencita Avenue) and three male blacks ran to […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s Station detectives are asking residents to be aware of people knocking on doors in local neighborhoods claiming to be looking for a friend. Four residential burglaries occurred in La Cañada on Thursday, March 31 between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. One of the homes was in the 4800 block […]
Dr. Moustafa T. (Mous) Chahine Dr. Moustafa T. (Mous) Chahine, whose long and distinguished career at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory included 17 years as chief scientist and earned him many honors from international scientific organizations, died on March 23. Born Jan. 1, 1935, in Beirut, Lebanon, Dr. Chahine came to the United States to attend […]
Dina Michele Nardoni Dina Michele Nardoni passed away suddenly from a blood clot at the age of 48 in Atlanta, Ga. on March 9. Born on Dec. 4, 1962, she was raised in La Crescenta and graduated from Crescenta Valley High School in 1981 where she was on the varsity tennis team. Dina was a […]
If you’re a fan of scary movies, you’ve likely hunkered down in your seat as a familiar scene plays out on the screen. You know the one – where unsuspecting merchant seamen or long-haul truckers are transporting a huge and not nearly secure-enough enclosure with some unknown “thing” inside. They only know that something live […]
Besides this column, I also do the “CV Then and Now” piece that has appeared in this paper since its beginning, and that ran in the previous CV Sun. I obtain old photos, match them to their current locations with a new photo, and then write some accompanying text. I can often be seen lurking […]
By Eli LOCKE Last month the Crescenta-Cañada YMCA held its annual summer camp sign up carnival. Camp sign up day used to be a very time consuming affair, but in recent years camp sign ups have been available on the Internet as well as at the carnival, with around 25% of camp signups taking place […]
By Brandon HENSLEY Upon first inspection, the quad at CV High School on March 19 may have looked like any other during a fundraiser: There was music, food, a special performance by a Taekwondo group, and many raffle prizes to award. But a closer look revealed something else, something more than just skin-deep. “This day’s […]