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In an effort to bolster local businesses, Los Angeles County just launched the Entertainment Business Interruption Fund, a $4.1 million grant program aimed to serve businesses that were impacted by the Hollywood strikes and the pandemic.
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The city of Santa Clarita is excited to announce the upcoming exhibition, “From the Sweet Flypaper of Life,” featuring the remarkable works of high school students enrolled in the CalArts Community Arts Partnership (CAP) Photography Lab Program.
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As a City dedicated to inclusivity and community, we aim to create world-class events to bring our residents together.
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Dale Donohoe and Kim Kurowski were named the Santa Clarita Valley's top volunteers of the year at the 2024 SCV Man and Woman of the Year dinner celebration held Friday, May 3 at the Hyatt Regency Valencia. The event also honored all of the 17 men and 17 woman nominated for the award.
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The regular meeting of the Saugus Union School District Governing Board will take place Tuesday, May 7, with closed session beginning at 5:30 p.m., followed immediately by public session at 6:30 p.m.
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The city of Santa Clarita Arts Commission is holding its regular meeting in City Hall's Council Chambers Thursday, May 9 at 6 p.m. The meeting will be held at Santa Clarita City Hall, 23920 Valencia Blvd., Valencia, CA 91355.
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Experience the Butterfly Encounter at Gilchrist Farm open now on weekends thorugh Sunday, June 18. Walk through a tent of beautiful flowers hosting live butterflies that fly freely throughout the tent.
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The Santa Clarita Community College District Board of Trustees will hold a business meeting Wednesday, May 8, beginning at 5 p.m. The board will first meet in closed session at 4:15 p.m.
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The Castaic Union School District Governing Board will hold its regular meeting Thursday, May 8, at 6 p.m. A closed session will be held at 5:30 p.m.
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Fire Service Day Open House will be held at all County of Los Angeles Fire Department fire stations on Saturday, May 4 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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The Santa Clarita Valley Media Collaborative invites the public as well as local creatives, media industry professionals, students, parents, teachers and others to celebrate the next generation of media makers participating in the inaugural NextGen MediaMakers Festival on Saturday, May 18 from 2-5 p.m. at the Canyon Country Community Center.
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Explore Vasquez Rocks during the magical twilight and early evening full moon hours. These fun, collaborative, interpretive hikes are led by trained staff and volunteers and will highlight the park's natural and human history.
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Astrotourism is top of mind for travelers making special trips for experiences in the sky, and with the recent “take-your-breath-away” total solar eclipse, thousands of cruisers onboard Emerald Princess and Discovery Princess off the coast of Mexico caught a glimpse of the total darkness event.
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The Santa Clarita City Council will hold a study session on Tuesday, May 7 at 5 p.m. The council will meet at City Hall, Carl Boyer Room, 23920 Valencia Blvd., First Floor, Santa Clarita, CA 91355.
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Garbage inspectors will soon be paying a visit to neighborshoods throughout the Santa Clarita Valley to inspect recycling bins to insure residents are following the recycling rules in the SCV.
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College of the Canyons competed at the 3C2A State Singles & Doubles Championships for a second straight year, with the doubles duo of Sydney Tamondong and Estrella Segura establishing program history by advancing to the round of 16 at the Ojai Athletic Club.
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College of the Canyons men's basketball head coach Howard Fisher's Cougar Basketball Camp returns in 2024 with three sessions open to boys and girls ages 8 to 14.
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The Friends of Santa Clarita Public Library is hosting a “Spring Bag Sale” event at the Valencia, Canyon Country and Newhall branches of the Santa Clarita Public Library, during normal operating hours from Saturday, May 4 to Sunday, May 12.
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A former public school teacher who launched a racist and anti-immigrant tirade against a Santa Clarita street vendor is being sued by a Latino civil rights group for civil assault and violating California civil rights laws.
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The Village of Pine Mountain Club has hosted wine festivals since 2003. You can taste exciting wines from the world’s top wine-growing regions, with dozens of premier wineries to choose from on Saturday, July 6, 1-4 p.m. at Wine in the Pines.
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4 Comments
You Rock Dianne!
Thank you, Salvador Arana!!!
What will we be able to ban or restrict to save this useless POS as we did up NOrth?
Thank you Dianne for this timely article. I am a former federal fisheries biologist who worked 16 years as such. Of these, 4 were spent with the US Forest Service in Tahoe/CA, Aspen/CO, Ketchikan/AK, and Mt.Hood/OR. The remaining 12 were spent working for the Inter American Tropical Tuna Commission at Scripps Inst. of Oceanography in La Jolla, CA. I KNOW FISHERIES and I KNOW the hydrological history in Bouquet, as well as the fact that Bouquet Canyon stickleback were inadvertently planted by the California Fish and Game back in the early 70’s with the trout plants in Bouquet to satisfy the need for family outdoor recreational activity in our community.
I also happen to be a cabin owner in Bouquet for the last 23 years and have followed this “fishy” situation from the inception back in 2009 when the Angeles National Forest and the US Fish and Wildlife Service “started” calling the stickleback in Bouquet Canyon the endangered UTS (unarmored threespined stickleback) type as opposed to the 99% population that were un-endangered PTS (partially armored variety). Redacted FOIAs and lots of non-replies by federal government biologists had my hackles up knowing I must be onto a questionable science issue or else my inquiries would have been answered MUCH AS I HAD DONE when corporations, industries, and the public asked for clarification on my field work and analysis during my 16 years of federal service.
A very concise genetic study WAS conducted and found the stickleback in Bouquet to be “low plated morphs” and thus considered a PIRU area gene stock.. NOT AN ENDANGERED STOCK. Meanwhile L.A. County has been paying absorbent amounts of money to a few select biologists who get paid handsomely to “net these fish” so that two select road culverts can be cleaned out each year. These fish were netted, and these contracts were awarded based on these fish being ENDANGERED. Suspect regulations were being handed down to the cabins in their permit renewal process with no water quality studies to back up claims and the cabins stood to lose their permits entirely. We DID our homework, we DID our certified water quality work, we know the science and that of the polluted quality in the Santa Clara River that the REAL UTS seem to survive in quite well. So we have been patiently waiting for the feds to finally come up with their conclusions and where we in Bouquet Canyon stand to either win or lose. Then and only then will we play our hand of what we have to throw on the table.
Hopefully the USFWS can handle the situation as they did with the 21,000 home,school,industrial park, and other mega development that Newhall Land has been positioning to build on the flanks of the Santa Clara River. And that is give the residents of the lower canyon and the cabin owners THEIR WATER, and do what is right for public safety on Bouquet Canyon Road by allowing the LA County to do the corrections needed to the stream bed channel to correct the seepage issues by keeping the creek in its channel. This can only be done if the canyon residents are given the SAME GREEN LIGHT in their Biological Opinion as what the USFWS gladly handed to Newhall Land for their mega development in UTS habitat.