By Justin HAGER Falcon baseball and softball got off to a rough start on Tuesday when the scheduled 3:30 p.m. boys’ varsity baseball game was postponed due to an umpire scheduling conflict. But it was all uphill from there. The afternoon saw the perennial powerhouse Lady Falcons’ softball team kickoff its Pacific League campaign in […]
Lady Vaqs host Cypress tonight, Thursday, in CCCAA championship tournament. By Justin HAGER The Glendale Community College Lady Vequeros basketball team are threepeat champions of the Western State Conference Southern Division and will host the first round of the California Community College Athletic Association championship tournament tonight, Thursday. The matchup will feature the No. 5 […]
For Valentine’s Day, Annie Varvaryan, licensed clinical psychologist from Couch Conversations Psychotherapy and Counseling, taught mindfulness and self-care through deep breathing, meditation and relaxation skills to La Cañada Flintridge Girl Scout Troop #70571. Pictured are (back row) Troop Leader Georgina Mueller, Olivia Mueller, Cora Ryan, Lucia Phifer, Maya Whitesides, Dr. Annie Varvaryan; (in front are) Violet […]
Recently Crescenta Valley High School students held a voter registration drive on the school campus. Roan Thibault is a student at the school and group leader of the club Students Demand Action, one of the 10 clubs that organized the drive. “With the midterm elections coming up, we wanted to ensure that CVHS students knew […]
Crescenta Valley High School Academy of Science and Medicine collected food for the Bailey Center, which is located at the United Methodist Church in Tujunga. The Bailey Center is a food bank that feeds about 1,000 individuals every Wednesday. The Bailey Center has seen food insecurity grow, especially during the pandemic, and it does not […]
The GUSD has cleared the path for the first live performance of 2022, and the first musical on the Crescenta Valley High School stage in two years. The final performances of “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” are Friday, Feb. 25 and Saturday, Feb. 26 at 7 p.m. Advanced ticketing required; visit https://www.onthestage.tickets/show/crescenta-valley-high-school/the-25th-annual-putnam-county-spelling-bee-7483. Additionally, […]
By Bethany BROWN Korean-language classes at Crescenta Valley High School celebrated the Lunar New Year on Jan. 31 and Feb. 1. The holiday was celebrated on both days to accommodate the newly implemented block scheduling and ensure each student had the opportunity to experience the festivities arranged by Korean-language teachers Tina Song and Young-iL Kim. […]
By Lori BODNAR Two hundred students participated in the Mountain Avenue Elementary School (MAES) 14th annual PTA Science Fun Fair. Approximately 160 students completed 125 science projects (some worked in teams) and 40 sixth-grade students competed in “The Great Paper Roller Coaster Challenge.” The goal of the sixth grade engineering build was to work in […]
A student team from Clark Magnet High School in La Crescenta joined the list of winning teams from 57 schools around the country/nation in the NASA TechRise Student Challenge where students build experiments that will autonomously operate and collect data from the edge of space aboard a suborbital rocket or a high-altitude balloon test flight. NASA selected the winning […]
Jackson Porter, age 9 (and ¾!) collected 140 pairs of new socks to deliver to unhoused neighbors as part of his school’s Kindness Week efforts. “I asked for help from my incredible neighbors and I was so excited and happy when they all showed up with new socks to donate!” he said. “I just want […]