By Brian PARK CV Weekly Intern Guard Cassie Pappas scored 27 points and had three steals as the Falcons (15-4, 5-1 in league) defeated the Burbank Bulldogs (8-10, 3-3 in league) 57-26 at Crescenta Valley on Wednesday night. The Falcons started the game off fast, scoring seven straight points before the Bulldogs made a free […]
Shooting for Glendale Community College on Wednesday night was former CV Falcon Narbeh Ebrahimian, now a freshman at the college. The former Falcon is playing forward #35. On Wednesday, Glendale hosted West Los Angeles. Glendale won 64-63.
By Andrew SIMON In the second half of the Crescenta Valley boys’ basketball game at Burbank on Wednesday, Coltrane Powdrill decided the burden was on him to lift a struggling Falcons squad. “I think we were kind of lackadaisical on the offensive end and defensive end, so I felt I needed to kind of pick […]
By Mary O’KEEFE About 40 Crescenta Valley High School students met in a classroom last week and began talking strategy. “OK, how do we want to play the game?” said Sam Sampson. “Do we want to shoot the ball and wait 15 seconds and shoot the other ball?” asked Julian Shur. The discussion continued about […]
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By Jim CHASE Once, when I was in not yet in my teens, I spent a precious dollar of my meager allowance to buy a 45 rpm record of the Beatles’ “She Loves You.” I lovingly carried it home from Grayson’s Tune Town like I had purchased the Holy Grail itself. I played that small […]
By Mike LAWLER A few years ago, when my third daughter Annie was obsessed with cooking, we indulged her passion with a few cooking classes. She really did learn some lifelong skills, and isn’t afraid to whip up anything now that she’s a teen. One of her more successful classes was in making pies under […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The Crescenta Valley Drug and Alcohol Prevention Coalition, formerly Council, continues to move forward with its goal of education and support for the community. The organization began with a small group of parents who were concerned about the growing drug use in the area. It has become an outreach program that has […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The Glendale Police continue to ask for the public’s help in identifying the hit and run driver that struck and killed Montrose resident Joo Lee and at 7:15 p.m. on Jan. 1. Lee was struck while he was crossing the street in the 3000 block of Montrose Avenue. A driver had stopped […]
Jan. 18 1000 block of Fairview Drive in La Cañada, a brief case was stolen and the front passenger side window of a vehicle was shattered overnight. Jan. 16 300 block St. Katherine Drive in La Cañada, a resident reported that someone had entered her unlocked home and stole a digital camera, umbrella, duffle bags, […]