By Brandon HENSLEY Kim Nguyen remembers those freezing San Francisco nights last summer, the ones cold enough to erase fantasies of migrating west for that warm California weather. She also remembers the people she met who have to endure nights those on a regular basis, the homeless of San Francisco who make up quite a […]
By Brandon HENSLEY The driver of a red 2000 Ford Mustang said he blacked out while stopped southbound at an intersection in the 4400 block of Ocean View Boulevard shortly after 10 p.m. on Wednesday. His car rolled forward and hit series of parked cars, creating a domino effect. The driver an 18-year-old male and […]
By Brandon HENSLEY What athletes are most measured by when they play sports is whether they win or lose, but for the last two years those at the high school and college level have been recognized locally for much more than that. On May 25, student athletes from Glendale Unified School District high schools and […]
By Brandon HENSLEY Every year after a high school prom, there are students who round up their friends and dates, get a hold of some alcohol and spend the rest of the night daring the police to come and crash whatever party is being thrown. Then there are the students who attended CV High’s Prom […]
By Brandon HENSLEY Usually at a high school, hours after the last bell has rung, the hallways are empty, free of students who are most likely procrastinating on another assignment. But on May 20 at CV High, students had an assignment that brought them back to the classroom from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. On […]
By Brandon HENSLEY She’s not part of The Justice League or The Avengers, or another type of comic book superhero team, but Rev. Beverly Craig knows what it’s like to get a call and spring into action when needed. In the early part of the last decade, a riot broke out at Pitchess Detention Center […]
By Brandon HENSLEY To say it has been a while since Marcia Warfield Flannery stepped foot in La Crescenta would be an understatement the size of one of those boulders that came crashing into her home 77 years ago. The floods on New Year’s Eve in 1933 ripped through the Crescenta Valley, devastating the area, […]
By Brandon HENSLEY Maybe a church like St. Luke’s of the Mountains still hasn’t found what it’s looking for, at least in terms of growing its congregation, but it’s about to shake things up this weekend. That’s because on Sunday at 10 a.m., the church, located at 2563 Foothill Blvd., will hold a traditional service […]
By Brandon HENSLEY The Falcons’ varsity baseball team played the waiting game Tuesday night at Stengel Field. It waited for its pitching to show up, which didn’t happen. Then it waited for its offense to show up, which came around just in the nick of time. Elliot Surrey provided the key hit in the Falcons’ […]
By Brandon HENSLEY In the early 1970s, the history of the football program at Crescenta Valley High was bleak. Since the school’s inception, no player had been selected All-CIF and no team had ever made the playoffs. But that all changed in 1973 when the Falcons went 12-1 and won their first and only CIF […]