San Marino

Voters opted for stability in Tuesday's election, returning City Councilmen Dennis Kneier and Eugene Sun to office and extending a public safety tax. A term limit law that would cap lawmakers' service at two four-year terms before forcing them to take a hiatus of at least two years before running again also passed easily, garnering 76% of the vote. Kneier was the top vote-getter in the city council race, earning 37% of the vote, while Sun got 36%. First-time candidate David Foley, a real estate manager, had 16% of the vote, and law firm staffer Stephanie Johnson garnered just under 12% of the vote.

An outage report on Southern California Edison's website states San Marino residents may be in the dark until late Saturday due to storm damage. From the site :  Repair crews have been notified and are aware of the problem. The wind storm affecting Southern California has caused numerous power outages requiring significant repairs. Currently it is expected that extended time will be needed to restore service. Based on our initial assessment, it is possible that some customers in this outage may be off until Saturday Late Evening Check back for updates.

LA CAÑADA FLINTRIDGE - It was anyone's guess how the first game between the Flintridge Prep or San Marino High girls' volleyball teams would impact both sides moving forward in the match Tuesday. The Rebels faced game-point and were down by nine before they tied the Titans in the opener with a nine-point run. San Marino settled down to halt the Prep push and take the first game. "They had a real strong server on the back line and once you give up some points it's easy to give up a lot of points," said San Marino Coach Gordon Anderson of Prep's Daniella Motte, who had four aces in the first game and six in the match.

LA CAÑADA FLINTRIDGE - Already missing three returning starters due to outside commitments, the Flintridge Prep boys' basketball team became even thinner Friday when guard Kyle Hamane suffered what Rebels Coach Garrett Ohara termed a bad ankle sprain in the team's opening game of the Flintridge Prep Basketball Tournament. When Prep took the court later in the afternoon to face San Marino in tournament action, the Rebels would need some one to pick up the slack. They got just that, from several sources, in pulling away from the Titans in the second half to notch a 63-57 win. “That's what you like in the summer, there's guys who have got to be in different roles,” said Ohara, who got 14 points and eight points from Tyler Weakland, 11 points and eight rebounds from Chadd Cosse and eight points apiece from four other players.

The following are previews of the area's upcoming high school football games this week. Through the years, the spotlight on the second week of the season focused on the Crescenta Valley High and St. Francis football teams getting together to participate in the "Battle for Foothill Boulevard. " It led to Friedman Field and Moyse Field being jammed with thousands of spectators and a chance for the schools to also play for bragging rights. Things have changed for the time being, as the Falcons and Golden Knights will not meet this season.

SAN MARINO - What was a close, hotly-contest nonleague football game for 42 minutes bordered on a blowout six minutes later. That's because the San Marino High football team scored two touchdowns over the final 5 minutes and 20 seconds of Friday's home game and pulled away from Crescenta Valley for a 27-7 win. The victory marks the second year in a row the Titans (2-0) have started off with consecutive season-opening triumphs in the two-year run of head coach Mike Hobbie. “Our kids fought their [butts]

Fifteen people were arrested Thursday on suspicion of taking part in an elaborate $18-million Medicare fraud scheme that officials say involved a pharmacy in San Marino and a Glendale medical clinic. The scheme involved so-called “prescription harvesting,” in which Manor Medical Imaging Clinic and San Gabriel Valley pharmacies allegedly re-billed the government repeatedly for anti-psychotic medications, according to a federal criminal complaint unsealed Thursday. A total of 17 people were named in the complaint.

NORTHEAST GLENDALE - With the game in hand by the early stages of the second half, the Flintridge Prep girls' soccer team could afford to coast a bit down the stretch of its nonleague match against visiting San Marino at the Glendale Sports Complex on Tuesday. But while Rebels Coach Esteban Chavez wasn't thrilled with the way his team closed out the game, he was more than pleased with a different kind of finishing touch in the scoring flare flashed by freshman forward Katherine Pinney.

LA CAÑADA FLINTRIDGE - For the past three years, defense has been as important as offense for the Flintridge Prep boys' water polo team under coach Dan Hare. “I have been teaching them the satisfaction may not be quite as exciting a goal, but a field block or a steal is also pretty good,” Hare said. It was evident Tuesday when the Rebels hosted San Marino in a nonleague match. Prep dominated from start to finish en route to a 16-2 victory, thanks in large part to a defense that suffocated the Titans, who committed 19 turnovers.

Edgar Melik-Stepanyan PASADENA -- Sometimes the La Canada High boys' basketball team makes winning look a little too easy. Not only does it have strong centers in Greg Gaudino and Mark Moore, but it also has good outside shooters in leading scorer Robbie Neyland and Billy Hofman. La Canada played to near perfection Wednesday night against San Marino High in the Rio Hondo League opener. In convincing fashion, the Spartans defeated the Titans, 73-31, at San Marino High.

OFFENSE QB - Joshua Muema-Washington, Senior, Muir Pacific League Player of the Year led the Mustangs to an eight-win season, as he threw for 2,597 yards and 19 touchdowns. Was also fleet-footed, rushing for five touchdowns on the ground. RB - James Williams, Sophomore, Burbank Enjoyed a phenomenal breakout season, earning Pacific League Offensive Player of the Year honors after dazzling to the tune of 1,443 yards rushing and 17 touchdowns. His yards came on 133 carries and a 10.8-yard average.

LA CRESCENTA - During a stellar start to the season, the Crescenta Valley High girls' water polo team has displayed stingy defense, steady, balanced offense, phenomenal work ethic and the ability to take down higher-division heavyweights. But in the span of two days, above all else, the Falcons have displayed sheer dominance. On Wednesday afternoon at CV, the host Falcons announced their presence with authority at the expense of San Marino to the tune of a 19-2 nonleague victory.

NORTHEAST GLENDALE - With the game in hand by the early stages of the second half, the Flintridge Prep girls' soccer team could afford to coast a bit down the stretch of its nonleague match against visiting San Marino at the Glendale Sports Complex on Tuesday. But while Rebels Coach Esteban Chavez wasn't thrilled with the way his team closed out the game, he was more than pleased with a different kind of finishing touch in the scoring flare flashed by freshman forward Katherine Pinney.

SOUTH PASADENA - Even when the lead the Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy basketball team had spent more than half the game building and maintaining was wiped out by San Marino in what seemed like a matter of seconds, the Tologs didn't hit the panic button. Instead, they slammed on the brakes defensively and hit some big shots down the stretch of Friday night's 64-54 win over the Titans in a San Gabriel Tournament game at South Pasadena High. “Honestly I didn't really notice and no one looked really panicked, which is a start for Sacred Heart,” said Tologs guard Dana Budzyn (10 points, eight assists, four rebounds and five steals)

SAN MARINO - For the first several weeks of the season, Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy first-year basketball Coach Ty Buxman plans to pay extra attention to the progress being made by his players in the rebounding department. It's an area that Buxman said the Tologs will need to continue improving on before beginning play in the rugged Mission League in January. Buxman got a glimpse of what might be in store Tuesday night, as Flintridge Sacred Heart grabbed 33 rebounds en route to a 48-22 win against South Region in a pool-play contest of the San Gabriel Valley Classic at San Marino High.

After a nine-year stretch of missing the CIF Southern Section playoffs, the members of the Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy tennis team will have an opportunity to experience the postseason. The Tologs finished third in the Mission League and punched their ticket to the postseason for the first time since 2002, when they fell to Calabasas in a Division I first-round match. Flintridge Sacred Heart (6-8) will get another taste of the playoffs when it meets third-seeded University in a Division I first-round road contest at 3 p.m. Wednesday.

ALHAMBRA - The Crescenta Valley High girls' golf team wasn't able to test itself against its biggest competition in the Pacific League in the first league contest last week. In that event on Sept. 12 at De Bell Golf Club in Burbank, Arcadia missed the match after a bomb scare at the school didn't allow the Apaches players to leave the campus until after the competition had started. In the second league match of the season Wednesday at Alhambra Golf Course, the Apaches were back in action, which turned out to be bad news for the Falcons.

LA CAÑADA FLINTRIDGE - It was anyone's guess how the first game between the Flintridge Prep or San Marino High girls' volleyball teams would impact both sides moving forward in the match Tuesday. The Rebels faced game-point and were down by nine before they tied the Titans in the opener with a nine-point run. San Marino settled down to halt the Prep push and take the first game. "They had a real strong server on the back line and once you give up some points it's easy to give up a lot of points," said San Marino Coach Gordon Anderson of Prep's Daniella Motte, who had four aces in the first game and six in the match.

LA CAÑADA FLINTRIDGE - For the past three years, defense has been as important as offense for the Flintridge Prep boys' water polo team under coach Dan Hare. “I have been teaching them the satisfaction may not be quite as exciting a goal, but a field block or a steal is also pretty good,” Hare said. It was evident Tuesday when the Rebels hosted San Marino in a nonleague match. Prep dominated from start to finish en route to a 16-2 victory, thanks in large part to a defense that suffocated the Titans, who committed 19 turnovers.

SAN MARINO - What was a close, hotly-contest nonleague football game for 42 minutes bordered on a blowout six minutes later. That's because the San Marino High football team scored two touchdowns over the final 5 minutes and 20 seconds of Friday's home game and pulled away from Crescenta Valley for a 27-7 win. The victory marks the second year in a row the Titans (2-0) have started off with consecutive season-opening triumphs in the two-year run of head coach Mike Hobbie. “Our kids fought their [butts]