By Mary O’KEEFE Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s burglary statistics increased in the fall of 2010 in part due to a very busy local man. Anders Goodman, 24, of La Crescenta has been charged with 21 counts of burglary and attempted burglary. Goodman would allegedly walk into a person’s home, many times when the resident was inside […]
Joe Campos On Christmas Eve, the Lord welcomed home Joe Campos of Sunland. He was a true local growing up across from Descanso Gardens and never lived far from where he finally rested. Although Joe was 74 at his time of passing his joking manner led those around him to believe he was 105 years […]
There’s a witch-hunt on in Glendale with a small group of City Council gadflies and the Glendale News-Press hoping to lead an angry mob. Unfortunately, the man they’d like to burn at the stake is CV’s own John Drayman. It seems to be an American pastime to knock heroes off their pedestals, even when they […]
Since any given new year inevitably brings about discussion of the passage of time, I want to bring up a frustration that’s been tick, tick, ticking for, well, some time now. Namely, I can’t seem to find someone to repair a clock. The clock in question is a somewhat large, “grandmother” clock that used to […]
The annual food drive at Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy took on extra urgency this year as the recession meant that more families were in need both at Thanksgiving and Christmas. “The drive normally would end at Thanksgiving, but we have expanded it because the need was so very great,” explained Rosemary Johnston, moderator of the […]
CCNS (Crescenta-Cañada Cooperative Nursery School) held its annual Christmas program on Wednesday, Dec. 22 within the Lutheran Church in the Foothills. Both the Busy Bears (4 year olds) and Darling Ducks (3 year olds) took part, learning the true meaning of Christmas through their participation in a Christmas program that was complete with a surprise […]
Mountain Avenue Elementary School second grader Dana Lee Ryan is scheduled to sing the national anthem at the basketball game Friday night, Jan. 7. Dana Lee will be singing before the start of the CVHS versus Burbank High School basketball game at 7:00 p.m. in the main gym. Dana Lee is a player in the […]
The academic decathlon team at Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy explored New York City for a week recently to broaden the girls’ studies of the Great Depression for their upcoming competition in late January. Many of the sites visited related to the team’s knowledge of Depression-era art. They wandered the Metropolitan Museum of Art where they […]
By Brandon HENSLEY The calendar may say it’s a new year, but inside the Burroughs High gymnasium Tuesday night, the scene was an all too familiar one from years gone by. There were the Crescenta Valley Falcons, taking an early lead. There they were building on that lead with outside shooting and stellar post play. […]
By Jason KUROSU As the NFL has recently been forced to come to terms with the brutal realities of the sport, high schools have been concerned about the consequences of concussions and other serious head injuries for years. Numerous states including California have been working on passing stricter legislation regarding how these sorts of injuries […]