Crescenta Valley students perform well on state test scores

Most GUSD schools garnered above average API and AYP scores. By Rachel KANE California’s 2010 Academic Performance Index scores released Monday showed Crescenta Valley schools to be performing at or in some cases well above state standards. These yearly reports measure and keep track of California schools’ academic improvements and progress throughout the year. Scores […]

Sheriff’s Explorers wanted for CV Station

By Mary O’KEEFE The Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s Station is looking for a few good teens to join the Sheriffs Explorer group. Explorers are teens who do not necessarily want a career in law enforcement but find value in self-discipline and challenging themselves. Once recruits are accepted they must go through an 18 week training session […]

Treasures were found at sale

By Mary O’KEEFE The Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s Station Volunteers Rummage Sale was a success, said Deputy Jorge Valdivia. Although the total has yet to be tallied Valdivia said the sales were better than expected. The sale began at 7 a.m. last Saturday and had a line of shoppers that stretched a block up the sidewalk […]

CHP Report

• On Saturday at 11:05 a.m. an accident involving two vehicles closed two westbound lanes of the Foothill (210) freeway slowing traffic for about 45 minutes. The accident occurred just west of the Lowell Avenue exit when a vehicle driven by a 43-year-old Sylmar woman stalled in the number two lane. Another vehicle driven by […]

Law enforcement still looking for bank robber

By Mary O’KEEFE Law enforcement is continuing its investigation into the Bank of America robbery that occurred on Sept. 9. At 12:50 p.m., a man described as Hispanic in his 30s entered the BofA in the 3100 block of Foothill Boulevard and presented a teller with a note demanding money. She complied and the man […]

Betty Penny (McGaughey )

Betty Penny (McGaughey ) 1914 – 2010 Betty enjoyed a wonderful life filled with music, friends, her students, and the love of her family. She was born May 28,1914 in Kokomo, Ind. to Ernest Lee and Nelle Elizabeth Arthur. During the Depression, she was able to pursue her music career in piano and voice. Betty […]

Doris Boulware

Doris Boulware Doris Gaer Boulware, beloved mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, died peacefully on Monday, Sept. 7 at Windsor Manor in Glendale. She was 103. Born on Jan. 14, 1907, she was raised on a dairy farm in Creighton, Neb. Doris was a school teacher and a prize-winning fiction writer. She had been a resident of […]

Crime blotter

September 13 100 block of Foothill Boulevard in La Cañada Flintridge, tools were stolen from the exterior of the auditorium at La Cañada High School sometime between Sept. 9 and 13. September 12 100 block of Foothill Boulevard and La Cañada, copper piping was cut and stolen along with four valves from the exterior of […]

Weather in the foothills

By Sue KILPATRICK “The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.”” — Jacques Yves Cousteau The Pacific Ocean, blue whales and hurricanes – there is a connection here. Along our coast the cold California current flows. Sounds refreshing after our Labor Day weekend heat wave when temperatures reached […]

Cheering on our Coalition

School returning to session wasn’t the only big news last week. Our own Crescenta Valley Drug & Alcohol Prevention Coalition received a chunk of change from the federal government in the form of grant money. The Coalition will be receiving around $125,000 per year each year for the next five years. Huge news when you […]