Sunday night was showtime for choreographer Orlando Alexander, who led a team of 12 dancers through a live performance before a star-studded audience at the Los Angeles Convention Center’s Governors Ball — the official after-party of the 69th Annual Emmy Awards. Monday afternoon, however, found...
LA CAÑADA — Looking to get back to the win column, the Flintridge Prep football team focused on having constructive practices throughout the week leading up to Friday’s eight-man contest against Bellarmine-Jefferson. After losing to Cate on Saturday, the Rebels went back to the basics and worked...
Ten Years Ago Eleven vehicles, ranging from BMWs to Hondas, were reported stolen in the La Cañada area over a two-week period in September 2007. A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department detective said it was hard to pinpoint the cause for the notable spike in car thefts, but surmised it might...
Your readers will remember that in “Gulliver’s Travels,” Jonathan Swift ridiculed the trivial disputes between the two main political parties in 18th-century England by imagining two parties in Lilliput whose only difference was that one ate boiled eggs starting at the big end, the other at the...
Last night, I received an email from the La Cañada YMCA saying “... our first responders fighting the La Tuna fire are asking our Y members, staff and volunteers to mobilize a water drive to collect most needed drinking water for the firefighters.” My husband and I joined the line of cars on Foothill...
Early in the morning on the day when the first signs of the La Tuna fire appeared, I was coming back from my usual hike on the trail that starts at the Angeles National Forest fire station on Angeles Crest Highway when I saw in the distance that a small hillside that usually has only a few pink...
Throughout the history of the West, the old adage remains true: “water is worth fighting for.” I believe our national parks are also worth fighting for. They are cherished places collectively known as “America’s best idea.” To protect both water and National Parks and in response to increasing...