By Mary O’KEEFE Glendale Unified School District held its first of two town hall meetings at 11 a.m. on Wednesday; its second meeting was at 5:30 p.m. The purpose of the meeting was to hear opinions and concerns from parents, teachers and community members regarding the upcoming school year. For several hours parents and teachers […]
By Leonard COUTIN On Saturday, the CIF state cross-county championship finals held its 33rd annual competition in Fresno at picturesque Woodward Park. The Division II girls’ races started at 8:30 a.m. and the boys’ Division I race was the last race of the day starting at 1 p.m. The anxiety of waiting to […]
Floats, dignitaries, scout troops and more will make their way down Honolulu Avenue for the annual Christmas parade. By Mary O’KEEFE It all began in the 1950s when one of MGM’s most popular movie stars, Dennis Morgan, got some of his famous friends together for a holiday celebration and, on horseback, rode down Honolulu […]
By Leonard COUTIN Working tenaciously, and after traveling 80 miles, the Crescenta Valley High School Falcons cross-country runners were determined to step up their game on Nov. 15 to get through the stiff competition of the CIF prelims in Riverside. Twenty-four teams in each division will advance to finals. Division 1 had three heats in […]
By Leonard COUTIN On Thursday, Nov. 7, the Pacific conference finals were held on the home course of the Arcadia Apaches in Arcadia Park. Despite wins by both the CV boys and girls varsity teams at the first scoring meet of the season at League No. 2 on Oct. 17 at CV Park, nothing was […]
By Leonard COUTIN This season’s head cross-country coach Christopher Davis is a teacher at Clark Magnet School who has volunteered his time and efforts in promoting a solid cross-country program at Rosemont Middle School. Successfully attracting large numbers to his cross-country program the experience has been valuable to the runners. Already having 27 runners in […]
By Leonard COUTIN The legendary Mt. SAC Cross-Country Invitational celebrated its 72nd event on Oct. 26 and set records in attendance by the number of runners in one venue with races held every 15 minutes for elementary, middle school, high school and college athletes. This year’s runners made their marks on the various types of […]
By Leonard COUTIN Early in the season, Crescenta Valley Head Coach Mark Evans discussed his strategy and performance plan for his team. The CV Falcon cross-country team hoped to set the stage to accomplish its goal of becoming the 2019 Pacific League champions. The first scoring meet of the season, League No. 2 on […]
By Leonard COUTIN This last weekend, October 12 Woodward Park in Fresno was the gathering place for runners from all over California as they attend the 41st Asics Clovis Invitational that is highly rated in competition and allows runners to experience the featured CIF State Cross Country course early. With two months into the season, […]
By Leonard COUTIN On Thursday, Sept. 26, the Pacific League altered its normal running schedule. Instead of racing all divisions, the top varsity members were omitted from competition in the newly formed Pacific Cluster Meet No. 1. This meet featured four races: boys and girls JV/varsity combination as well as the frosh/sophomore boys and girls […]