CV Crush wins Veteran’s Day classic

The Crescenta Valley Crush went 4-0 to earn gold in a 10-team 11U travel baseball tournament sponsored by USSSA this past weekend in Chino Hills and West Covina. Strong pitching by Scott Vinceri, Ty Langford and Will Overstreet helped propel the Crush to their first large-scale tournament win since forming in August 2009. Home runs […]

CVHS places in CIF cross country prelims

By Leonard COUTIN It was an exciting day for Pacific League finalists who attended the CIF prelims held at Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut last weekend. Four local teams are now qualified for the Southern Section Cross Country Finals taking place Saturday, Nov. 20. CVHS senior star Claudia Pham did what she does best […]

Water polo heads to C.I.F.

After a strong season, the Crescenta Valley High School Falcon’s boys water polo team is heading to the C.I.F. playoffs yet again. The Falcons will face tough opposition throughout the playoffs, with matches against La Serna High School, John H. Francis Polytechnic, Bonita High, Palm Springs and more locally, Glendale High School. The Falcons, which […]

Sour ending to Crescenta Valley High School season

By Seth AMITIN It was a long season, filled with brutal injuries for Crescenta Valley High’s football team, that ended on a sour note. An overwhelming number of injuries to the team’s core cost them and after starting 4-1 on the season, the Falcons limped to the finish line with five straight losses, their final […]

Bagging on her Gold Award

Some little known facts about plastic bags: they take around 1,000 years to decompose due to being made from petroleum, 100 billion of them are used every year in the United States and 95% of them are never recycled. These are the kinds of facts that Sienna Hill wants to bring to light. She is […]

Scouts offering gift wrapping service

Members of Delphi Academy’s Troop 555 will be stationed outside Sport Chalet in La Cañada to provide gift wrapping throughout the holiday season beginning on “Black Friday,” Nov. 26 and from Dec. 13 every day through Christmas Eve, Dec. 24. The schedule will be posted at Sport Chalet La Cañada. This is the ninth year […]

Youngsters invited to hoop shoot competition

Glendale Elks Lodge No. 1289 invites all boys and girls ages 8 through 13 to participate in its annual Hoop Shoot basketball competition at 8 a.m. on Dec. 11 10 at Hoover High School gym, located at 651 Glenwood Road inGlendale. Winners who qualify will go on to represent their respective schools at district, regional […]

“Wax” figures found at school

By Mary O’KEEFE Mountain Avenue Elementary School campus came alive with historical figures on Tuesday – well, sort of. Harry Houdini shared a table with Elvis Presley, and Lucille Ball sat across from Lucille Ball. The occasion was the school’s annual wax museum exercise, which has sixth graders choose a person from history who has […]

Falcon Marching Band on a winning streak

With one more competition left in the season, the Crescenta Valley High School Falcon Marching Band has enjoyed an outstanding winning streak. In its first competition this fall, the Band earned its highest score ever for a first competition in a season. And it keeps racking up more “best ever” achievements. Last Saturday at the […]

Zack Hill comic strip has CV roots

The nationally syndicated Zack Hill has been a regular comic strip in these pages since this paper started, but how many of you knew the strip is locally produced? The strip is written by CV historian John Newcombe, who produced the very popular local history film “Rancho La Cañada.” Last week one of the “Letters […]