Sean Hutchinson

It is always the anniversary of something, and for me this has been the anniversary year for the whole decade of the '60s. Two decades are no more than a flick of time and yet the 1960s already seem irretrievably distant and dreamlike (when they are not nightmarish to recall). Rock music was the anthem of the '60s, a loud, boisterous, assertive and initially optimistic sound of freedom and pleasure that embraced a young generation not only here but halfway around the globe at least.

It is always the anniversary of something, and for me this has been the anniversary year for the whole decade of the '60s. Two decades are no more than a flick of time and yet the 1960s already seem irretrievably distant and dreamlike (when they are not nightmarish to recall). Rock music was the anthem of the '60s, a loud, boisterous, assertive and initially optimistic sound of freedom and pleasure that embraced a young generation not only here but halfway around the globe at least.

Katie Hoff is starting to feel at home again — in California and on the winner's podium. Hoff finished first in the 400-meter freestyle final at the national championships in Irvine on Tuesday. Her time of 4:05.50 at the William Woollett Jr. Aquatics Center was 2010's fourth-fastest time in the world. Hoff was seeded No. 1 in the final after swimming a 4:08.25 in the preliminaries earlier in the day. Just three weeks ago, at the Los Angeles Grand Prix on July 13, Hoff set a meet record with 4:06.

It is not so much the Hacienda Heights Los Altos High football team that concerns Covina Northview's Coach Brian Beveridge heading into the Southern Section Eastern Conference championship game Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut. It is the winning tradition of the Conquerors that has Beveridge worried. "That's really an intangible," Beveridge said. "They've been there before and they just expect to win it. I used to coach at Temple City, so I know what that's like."

It was a bit surprising to see Coach Brian Beveridge at a luncheon Monday honoring the Southern Section football teams that reached this week's championship games. It wasn't that Beveridge and Covina Northview don't deserve to be playing Los Altos of Hacienda Heights for the Eastern Conference title next Saturday night at Mt.

As a human resources executive responsible for hundreds of insurance company employees, Maggie Jennings saw her share of office temper tantrums--arguments between co-workers, pen-throwing managers and even a guy who kicked in his computer screen. Jennings' experience is not unique.

Team-By-Team Alphabetical List Selections Included DODGERS--Dana Allison (James Madison), lhp; William Ashley (Belleville HS), rf; Gaither Bagsby Jr. (Dickson HS), rhp; Bryan Beals (Chapman), 2b-cf; Garrett Beard (Spartanburg JC), rf-3b; Bill Bene (CS Los Angeles), rhp; Cameron Biberdorf (Mayville St.

It's a new season for high school football in the San Gabriel Valley, but in many respects 1987 looks a lot like last year. The top two teams still figure to be Bishop Amat of La Puente and Muir of Pasadena, among the elite of the CIF Southern Section for years and the best in the valley last season.