Most of the local boys’ basketball teams that qualified for the postseason have been eliminated.
That list includes Cypress High, which fell to Santiago in the second round of the CIF Division-IA bracket. The Centurions lost that matchup 52-49 on Tuesday, Feb. 19.
The Centurions, who took second place in the Empire League, finished the season with a 21-8 overall record.
The Los Alamitos High girls water polo team saw its season come to an end in the second round of the CIF-SS Division I playoffs on Saturday. The Griffins fell to Corona del Mar, 7-5 at Corona del Mar High.
The Griffins took a 3-2 lead into the half, but the Corona del Mar defense held the Griffins scoreless in the third period to take 4-3 lead into the fourth quarter. The Griffins were able to put two more goals on the board in the fourth quarter, but it wasn’t enough as the Sea Queens added three more goals for the final score.
Los Alamitos Race Course officials are in preliminary meetings this month with the city of Cypress to expand the track and barn area to accommodate thoroughbred racing set possibly for early next year.
“It’s a 50-50 percent chance that Los Al will host thoroughbred racing. We’ll know quite a bit more in the next 30 days as to if this will move forward,” Track Consultant Brad McKinzie said.
“We don’t’ know even if we are going to apply for permits. This project is still a proposal,” McKinzie said.
The Los Alamitos High boys soccer team advanced to the second round of the CIF-SS Division I playoffs with a 4-1 win over Buena High of Ventura on Friday at Laurel High School.
The Rossmoor Community Services District Board of Directors presented Weaver Elementary School Principal, Erin Kominsky with a Proclamation in Recognition of Educational Excellence.
The Los Alamitos High girls water polo team saw its season come to an end in the second round of the CIF-SS Division I playoffs on Saturday. The Griffins fell to Corona del Mar, 7-5 at Corona del Mar High.
It was mostly for service credits that Rebecca Roberts took up tutoring while she was a student at Long Beach City College. But that simple act of volunteering her time caused a light to go off in her head.
In his State of the County address, Orange County Supervisor John Moorlach highlighted a local real estate market that is on the upswing, but noted that there are still several “torpedoes” that the county must avoid in getting the economy back on track.
Moorlach spoke to a filled banquet room at the Old Ranch Country Club on Feb. 7, noting that after a three year drop in sales tax revenue in the county, figures show that in 2010-11 there was a 6.5 percent increase in tax revenue for the county.
On Friday, Feb. 1, Cypress Mayor Dr. Prakash Narain and his wife, Veena Narain, attended the District Swearing-In Ceremony for Congressman Alan Lowenthal in the city of Long Beach.
Lowenthal was elected in November 2012 to represent California’s 47th District to the 113th Congress, newly drawn by the State Citizens Redistricting Commission as a result of the November 2008 voter approved Proposition 11—the Voters FIRST Act.
Los Alamitos High graduate and UC Berkeley grad student Kathryn Moore was recently back in southern California as part of a design team that was among six international finalists in the Disney ImagiNations design competition.
Cypress Police prevented a potential bank ATM theft early on Monday, Feb. 4, when a patrol officer witnessed a suspicious truck parked next to Chase Bank located at 10011 Valley View.
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