After some strong growth a year ago, the La Cañada Summer Smash Little League baseball tournament will shrink this year.
Emergency crews in Burbank were able to quickly extinguish a “very small” brush fire Wednesday that ignited next to the railroad tracks near Verdugo Avenue and Front Street, authorities said.
Andrea Kropp (Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy, 2010) USC swimming redshirt sophomore: After claiming an Ivy League championship at Princeton University in 2011, the former Tolog transferred to USC and put on a redshirt for her sophomore season.
It's still fair to say St. Francis High owns the National High School Sports Medicine Championships.
Forty Years Ago: La Cañada's first Fiesta Days, a three-day event that also marked the 189th birthday of the community, was held June 21- 23, 1973.
Finding sufficient funding to maintain the high-quality of the La Cañada Unified School District has been a continuing problem in La Cañada Flintridge for most of the 32 years I have lived here. Having enough money is the means to the end of maintaining high standards. A committee of parents from our city proposes adding Sagebrush-area children to the LCUSD (“Parents call for district change,” June 6), which would have the effect of bringing more dollars to the district. Numerous attempts to do this have been tried in the past and all have failed.
Theseus without his Minotaur is like Superman without his Lex Luthor. Otherwise, the hero just gets the girl and lives happily ever after.
Dogs and cats lucky enough to get adopted out of the Burbank Animal Shelter will not only get a new home, but their own collars and identification tags.
Already the entertainment industry’s biggest licensor, the Walt Disney Co. is looking to "Star Wars" to lift it to new galactic heights when it releases three new movies over the next few years.
With the freshly-announced deals to produce animated television shows for Netflix and Germany's leading children's TV channel, DreamWorks Animation is well on the way to reinventing itself as a multifaceted media company.
