J.T. Orr goes eye to eye and chest with Kobe Bryant.
Unless you’re a hard core fan you probably missed it, but on Dec. 8, 2009, a 36-year-old rookie stepped on the floor and saw his first action in an NBA game. LeBron James and his supporting cast of Cleveland Cavaliers were in town to play the Memphis Grizzlies. Naturally, it was a sell-out.
The aging rookie [...]
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Leave it to a mechanical engineering student to figure out how to earn summer cash to help pay for his education at UC Santa Barbara and later this fall at prestigious Imperial College in London, England. Ian Sigsworth, a 2008 Bonita graduate, is working as an independent tutor, helping local students make sense of theorems, [...]
“There are approximately 60,000 private investigators employed in the United States. Nine thousand are women. One of them is Becky” of La Verne, Calif.
The above is the opening to a new reality show series that Dennis Gelbaum, producer of Ramp It Up Entertainment, is shopping around Hollywood about a dorky, quirky, but highly effective and fearless [...]
The local community came together at Holy Name of Mary on Friday to celebrate the life of Peter Kuzmickas who entered eternal life on April 4, 2010.
How much fun is it to live in Nick Croce’s world — surrounded each day by Gumby, Pokey, Betty Boop, the Simpsons and a stable of other cartoonish characters whose images he owns licenses to and sells around the world!
Plus, pity the man’s nine-and-a half-minute commute from his La Verne home to his La Verne [...]
BOOK REVIEW by Peter Bennett
Ah, the joys of journalism
Author D.G. Elizabeth (who grew up in La Verne no less) has agreed to meet to promote her new book, “Diary of Dating: From a Beautiful Single Woman,” a heartfelt, thought-provoking romantic comedy that takes a contemporary look into the world of dating through the eyes of an [...]
If the truth be told, it is not just the hand of God that worshippers feel when they attend church or synagogue. Man’s hand is also very present, and one hand, in particular, Jeff Tortorelli’s.
For many year’s Tortorelli owned a liturgical art and design studio on Arrow Highway in San Dimas before moving his workshop [...]
Bonita was bloodied, but unbowed, losing in a technical knockout to Golden Hills 74-66, Friday night in the Grizzlies’ home gym.
The big blow came with Bonita leading 51-45 with 7:47 remaining in the final and fourth quarter. The team’s two stars, Bonita’s 6-foot-5 C.J. Miller and Golden Hills’ 6-foot-8 center Trevor Wiseman fought furiously for [...]
Akron, Ohio, may be the rubber capital of the world, Las Vegas, Nev., may be the wedding capital of the world, and Castroville, Calif., may be the artichoke capital of the world, but, darn, if La Verne, Calif., isn’t the magic capital of the world.
A couple of weeks ago, LaVerneOnline.com brought you the amazing story [...]
The start of spring training evokes powerful memories. The tingle of fresh horsehide in the palm of your hand, the intoxicating scent of freshly cut Bermuda grass and the sight of powdery white chalk lines and finely crushed brick dirt fanning across the infield return a grown man to his youth.
For Peter Dewhurst, father of [...]
