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Area players, coaches, administrators react after all high school sporting events shelved amid global pandemic coronavirus concerns.
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After a long vacancy created by the closure of three businesses in 2017, a stretch of storefront in the Plaza de La Cañada shopping center is slowly coming back to life as permits are filed with the city’s planning department.
July 2 Burglary, residence: 300 block of St. Katherine Drive, La Cañada.
Valley Sun reporter Sara Cardine, News-Press reporter Andy Nguyen and sports editor Jeff Tully all captured first place in different categories in the annual California News Publishers Assn. contest.
Two women were airlifted to Pasadena’s Huntington Hospital Wednesday night after the vehicle they were driving lost control on Angeles Crest Highway and careened some 80 feet down an embankment, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The Chinese Club of La Cañada Flintridge and La Crescenta handed masks out to local residents in a drive-through operation Tuesday and plan to do it again.
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One La Cañada Elementary art specialist inspires kids sheltered in place during the coronavirus pandemic through her YouTube channel, “Art with Mrs. Torres.”
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A passerby walking his dog late on the night of March 25 called 911 after he noticed a shattered window at a Foothill Boulevard business.
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Some employees at Descanso Gardens are taking on production roles, producing virtual tours of some of the garden’s popular spots for visitors who must stay home during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Nearly 69% of La Cañada’s 5,335 registered Democrats participated in the election, compared to about 54% of the city’s 5,328 Republicans. Among 4,041 residents with no party preference, just 811 cast ballots.
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Although a spring gala that typically raises $500,000 for the La Cañada Unified School District had to be canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, LCFEF leaders are hopeful the community will continue to raise funds for next year.
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It’s an effort to build up a reserve army of backup doctors, nurses and other medical care specialists who can be called up to replace frontline providers when they get overwhelmed by surging caseloads or become sick themselves.
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A slow-moving weather system is expected to deliver April showers and mountain snow.
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On Sunday, the pastor of Cross Culture Christian Center in Lodi, Calif., was greeted by several police officers in the parking lot about an hour before he intended to hold an in-person service despite coronavirus restrictions.
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In this historic moment, the free world is led by a man whose greatest talent is to divide, mock, insult, alienate.
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In a settlement with the Los Angeles city attorney’s office, Yikon Genomics must pull its unauthorized product from the market and refund anyone who bought it.
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After the collapse of a nearly 30-year partnership with the maker of the world-famous Sriracha sauce and a multimillion-dollar lawsuit with the company, Craig Underwood is still betting on his farm’s peppers.
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Landlords in Los Angeles are pushing tenants to agree to repayment plans far more onerous than what’s required under new laws passed to prevent evictions.
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Inhaled nitric oxide appeared to kill the coronavirus that caused severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, and it might work on COVID-19 as well.
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Bill Withers, who died this past week, and John Prine, now hospitalized with COVID-19, rose from working-class roots to become touchstone singer-songwriters.
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Los Angeles County has now recorded more than 130 deaths related to the coronavirus. Nearly 1,400 infections were reported over the last 48 hours as the number of people tested rose to 31,000.
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The historic riding club is temporarily closed and the fundraiser for Huntington Hospital is off.
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Crescenta Valley Sheriff’s Station detectives are looking for information regarding a suspect thought to be linked to two incidents of indecent exposure on Foothill Boulevard Dec. 13 and March 18.
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As county officials track a steady increase in novel coronavirus infections, the number of cases for the La Cañada Flintridge area has risen to three.
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Residents yearning not to feel fenced in during the cornoavirus isolation period are finding their outdoor options dwindling as local, county and state officials announce new closures of parks, trails and other recreational areas.
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A woman driving her car in La Cañada on March 17 with her son in the passenger’s seat reported a white man in his 60s behind of the wheel of a gray Toyota Prius drove erratically, pulled in front of her, stopped his car and aimed a gun at her.
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Girls’ Basketball: Senior named league most valuable player, finishing her career ninth in all-time scoring after averaging 14.7 points, 5.6 rebounds to help lead Spartans to fifth consecutive Rio Hondo League title.
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Boys’ Soccer: Spartans senior led team in scoring to win Rio Hondo League Most Valuable Player, while teammate J.P. Crispi named league’s most valuable offensive player.
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Boys’ Basketball: Senior was team’s leading scorer, as Spartans captured a seventh straight league championship.
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Boys’ Soccer: Junior midfielder collected 19 goals, 12 assists for 50 points to help Rebels earn trip to CIF playoffs.
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After emergency meetings, LCUSD makes decision to suspend all athletic practices, contests in effort to slow COVID-19 spread.
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A breath of fresh air during the flu season was just what the teacher ordered. And he loved her for it.
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“Even when time and resources are available, and even with the now widespread availability of videoconferencing services, transposing in-person teaching to online is a challenge,” Frank writes.
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“We will survive this virus,” Puglia writes. “Yet our behaviors and ‘fight for yourself above all else’ attitude could prove disastrous.
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“Living in Manchester, England, there was one of two ways to live your life,” writes Reg Green, “Manchester City or Manchester United.” He followed in the footsteps of his father and became a City fan.
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The gully is choked with plastic bags, planks, bottles, forlorn chunks of concrete that no longer have a purpose, two toilets (!), bits of paper that blow away in the wind and miscellaneous rubbish.
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50 years ago this week the Valley Sun featured on its cover the photo of a cougar named “Susie” playing with an 8-year-old Oak Grove Elementary School student.
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One of Gracie Dundee’s first initiatives in elementary school involved getting permission from a teacher to work on a charity project with interested friends during 10 minutes of recess time.
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Rising to the challenge from a TV show, the Community Center of La Cañada Flintridge in March 2010 created the monstrous sweet and held a carnival for its unveiling. The center netted $5,000 for its efforts.
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On March 6 the Juniors gathered at La Cañada Flintridge Country Club for a party in support of Mending Kids; just days later panic over the cornovirus outbreak led to shoppers hoarding goods and the cancellation of gatherings.
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The presentation of a musical about Mother Nature that was to be performed in the Worship Arts Center at La Cañada Presbyterian Church this weekend has been postponed due to the novel coronavirus.
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