HITTING THE GREEN: Golf courses are greener...

HITTING THE GREEN: Golf courses are greener than ever, thanks to a growing environmental awareness in the $20-billion golf industry. Reduced pesticide spraying and development of drought-resistant grasses are putting golf on a par with other industries determined to clean up their acts (Valley Briefing, B2).

REMEMBERING: They were toddlers when it happened, too young to comprehend the tragedy that claimed the lives of six astronauts and a schoolteacher 10 years ago today (A1). At Challenger Middle School in Lancaster this week, students remembered the men and women who died reaching for the stars. . . . “They went out and risked their lives and they died,” said Assistant Principal Kevin Wassner. “We need to remember them.”

SUPER-FAN: Marie Delia of Lancaster doesn’t have far to go to the big game. . . . With her 105-inch TV screen in one corner and her collection of memorabilia spread around the rest of her specially designed “Cowboy Room,” she and friends will feel like they’re in Jerry Jones’ box today. . . . Her husband Joe, who built the room but is no fan, will be a football widower (B3).

VENDOR’S TALE: The day after a third street vendor was killed by a hit-and-run driver, friends and customers remember the hard-working man with a limp who sold flowers and nuts at a dangerous intersection (B1).

OUR SCHOOL: Joining other Valley high schools, Sylmar High has staked its place on the World Wide Web at https://coke.physics.ucla.edu/laptag/Sylmar.dir/Sylmar.html. . . . There, Internet surfers can browse testimonials from students, including this one: “Overlooking a quaint, smog-filled suburb northeast of famed sunlight city of Los Angeles, Sylmar High stands after thirty-odd years of riots and earthquakes, fire, famine and floods.”. . . Famine?