Marching in step with the best

Equipment checks, miles-long marches, 5 a.m. roll calls — training has begun for New Year's Day activities in Pasadena, and it's not...

55 years and still teaching

Resting on a kitchen shelf in Russell Norman's Glendale home is a novelty coffee mug gifted to him two decades ago. "A good teacher teaches,...

PTA News: High school students attend leadership conference

The Youth, Leadership and the Future Conference is scheduled for 8 a.m. Jan. 12 at Glendale Community College. The 26th annual Conference...

Partnership with school means Merry Christmas

Dozens of Glendale Memorial Hospital staff members Monday set aside their stethoscopes and medical charts to serve the community in a...

R.D. White leads the way in school safety efforts

Eighteen months after launching its Safe Routes to School program, R.D. White Elementary School has emerged as a district-wide standard...

Building character and intelligence

Seda Batmanian, a counselor at Chamlian Armenian School, knows her students, and her students know basketball. So when she started talking...

District braces for more cuts

Glendale Unified officials are bracing for an additional $7.6 million year-over-year reduction in state funding, cuts that will result in...

PTA News: Thanks to Hoover tour committee

Thanks to Keith Sorem and his committee who worked so hard to put on another wonderful Tour of Homes. Thanks to the many students and...

Tapping the sensual with belly dance

With the music pulsating, two dozen dazzlingly dressed women shimmied across the brightly lit floor. Gold and silver coins, dangling from...

Pacific BMW donates $50,000 to school cause

The Glendale-based car dealership Pacific BMW plans to make a $50,000 donation to the Glendale Educational Foundation on Dec. 14 at the...

School board OKs $270M bond

A $270-million school bond is in the hands of Glendale residents after school board members on Tuesday voted unanimously to place it on...

Check out decorations at home tour

If you are curious about how some of your neighbors are decking their halls this holiday season, Crescenta Valley High School Prom Plus...

Bringing the farm to school

School lunches aren't typically celebrated as mouth-watering affairs, but walking into the Mountain Avenue Elementary School cafeteria...

Setting their sights on college

For students enrolled in an advanced placement program at Wilson Middle School, the countdown to college has begun. And these eighth- and...

Not your mother's chalk board

Standing at the front of the classroom, Toll Middle School science teacher Julie Hoppe is familiarizing her eighth-graders with the periodic...

'Christmas Carol' given a new twist in production

Verdugo Woodlands students will experience a modern twist to a familiar holiday story thanks to the school's PTA.

Bake sale and tea are part of Hoover home tour

The 53rd annual Hoover Tour of Homes is Saturday. See four Glendale homes beautifully decorated by local florists. Included in the tour...

Horsing around in class

The Los Angeles Equestrian Center on Wednesday was transformed into a classroom for 27 R. D. White Elementary School students who took a...

District outlines potential bond uses

School safety improvements, technology upgrades and science lab renovations topped a list released this week by the Glendale Unified...

Drug use relatively low in local schools

Drug and alcohol use among Glendale Unified students is consistently lower than state and national averages, according to a recently...