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The Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation in cooperation with Friends of Castaic Lake will host Bark in the Park on Saturday, June 8 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
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California State Assemblywoman Pilar Schiavo, D-Chatsworth, announced that 18 of her bills have successfully passed out of their respective Assembly policy committees, with most now moving to the Assembly Appropriations Committee.
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A 10-week Life Skills course underwritten by the Old West Masonic Lodge No. 813 in Newhall will be offered free to Santa Clarita Valley youth.
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The Santa Clarita Valley Water Agency will hold a special board meeting on Monday, May 13 at 6 p.m. Board meetings have been temporarily relocated to the SCV Water Agency Training Room location at 23780 Pine St., Newhall, CA 91321.
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The 2024 California Institute of the Arts graduation ceremony will be held Friday, May 10 on the Valencia campus of CalArts. Honorary Degree recipients will include actor Keanu Reeves and director/writer/producer Gina Prince Bythewood.
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Graduation season is around the corner for the graduating seniors of the William S. Hart Union High School District.
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Members of the California Institute of the Arts community, industry representatives and friends and family journeyed to Los Angeles's Miracle Mile neighborhood to celebrate Character Animation students’ films at the 2024 Character Animation Producers’ Show.
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Princess Cruises, headquartered in Valencia, has announced it will return to San Juan, Puerto Rico after more than a decade, for a season of Southern Caribbean cruises onboard Grand Princess, from October 2025 through March 2026.
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Join the Santa Clarita Valley Chamber of Commerce Wednesday, May 15, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., for the monthly After Hours Mixer, an evening of networking and fun at Chronic Tacos.
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Get ready to level up your small business game. The next Los Angeles Region Small Business Summit will be held Thursday, May 9 and features Supervisor Lindsey Horvath, Los Angeles County Team Department of Economic Opportuntiy, city of Los Angeles and partners at Mission College in Sylmar.
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College of the Canyons has captured the 3C2A Southern California Regional Championship, the ninth in program history, after turning its opening round lead into a four-stroke advantage over runner-up Cypress College on Monday, May 6 at Rio Bravo Country Club.
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When every second counts, blood products can provide lifesaving care. The American Red Cross asks the public to give blood or platelets during Trauma Awareness Month in May to keep hospitals prepared for all transfusion needs, including emergencies.
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The city of Santa Clarita has announced the pickleball courts at Bouquet Canyon Park will be closed on Wednesday, May 8, for necessary maintenance on the windscreens.
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The California Animal Welfare Association, the San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals have announced the inaugural California Adopt-a-Pet Day will take place on Saturday, June 1.
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1861 - Andres Pico and partners granted state franchise to build toll road and cut 50-foot-deep cleft through (Newhall) Pass; they failed; Beale later succeeded [story]
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Gilbert, Arizona's Leah Burke has signed her National Letter of Intent to play soccer at The Master's University.
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - The Master's University struggled against a high-energy Georgetown (KY) Tigers squad, losing in straight sets 23-25, 18-25, 20-25 in the championship match of the 2024 National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Men's Volleyball Championships.
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College of the Canyons student-athletes Nichole Muro (softball) and Owen Crockett (men's golf) have been named the COC Athletic Department's Women's and Men's Student-Athletes of the Week for the period running April 29 to May 4.
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Step into the Heart of 1970s Texas at The MAIN as Front Row Center presents, "Lone Star, Laundry, and Bourbon."
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Warmer weather, longer days and the sound of baseball is officially back!
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Mental Health Hookup, in partnership with Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital, will conduct the third annual Stop the Stigma community event on May 18, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., on the Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital campus, located at 23803 McBean Parkway in Valencia.
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California State University, Northridge is set to open a first of its kind resource center in the CSU system to provide basic needs services such as food, clothing and wellness in a centralized location on campus.
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The city of Santa Clarita’s Film Office released the list of three productions currently filming in the Santa Clarita Valley for the week of Monday, May 6 - Sunday, May 12.
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52 Comments
I drove through Calabasas last weekend and noticed that their medians are being watered by recycled water. Is this something Santa Clarita is looking into? Is the infrastructure there for something like that?
The trees in the median need to be watered. Recycled water should be used for this purpose.
The trees are being watered. SCV sent a newsletter a few weeks ago explaining everything.
I know, but everything else is dead in the medians, hopefully they don’t also kill off our beautiful mature trees.
Unfortunately private residents are only able to water trees by hand held bucket according to ordinance 42. Seems silly especially if you have s large property with many large mature trees.
…but the sprinklers at Meadows park were on at 9:39 am Saturday morning…
I noticed that the grass outside of city hall is dead which means they are adhering to the new policy BUT the courthouse/sheriff lawn just across the street is lush and green!!! They have not cut back on watering!
Beth when I was working for the parks system, the plans are there to convert Central Park to reclaimed. But the costs are insane.. The system needs to be completely changed over. And the high salt content really actually hurts the landscape over time and raises the alkali in the soil to render eventually sterile
There should be no water usage period! If we can’t water lawns then city should do desert landscaping. Our leaders should be voted out. The letter they sent was horrible justifying the water usage. Go with cactus! Do what Arizona and New Mexico do, we are in a drought people. There is no excuse!
sorry but if i wanted cactus i would move to the desert!!
You are living in a desert.
Duh
The scv isn’t desert. My point was u don’t see desert landscaping here and if I wanted that I would move to Arizona or lancaster
Aren’t they taking out the paved median’s and putting in trees that need watering. ..mind boggling. ..that is what I saw :(
I am happy about the cuts the city and many residents have made but when it comes to schools, shopping centers and large complexes it’s been a straight slap in the face. So much run off from many of these places we can collect with buckets in the gutter. It’s the idea of these places that no enforcement will be in the middle of the night and who will catch them.
The medians down San Fernando have JUST BEEN PLANTED! What were they thinking? Ugly medians are ok with me if we can just keep some green spaces in our parks.
Those medians were a bad idea , firetrucks use that road so much , especially during rush hour on the freeways , before those were put in they had no problems getting thru but last week i saw that they were upset because they had no outlet to get thru the traffic , they were very frustrated ,
I couldn’t agree more. At the very least this could have waited but honestly it could have been completely eliminated.
Yesterday morning the grass along the sidewalk alongside the eastbound Newhall Ranch road going up to Golden Valley near the new home construction was being watered with sprinklers flooding the adjacent sidewalks!
En donde vivo no les importa si hay agua o no algunos dejan la llave de agua abierta bien poquito todo el tiempo para regar el pasto,es la única casa con el pasto verde,otras que lavan la calle en pleno calor,no saben cuidar el único líquido que nos ayuda a vivir sin agua no hay vida.
Que triste…
Finally!! Way to finally figure it out santa clarita. Too busy fining the citizens but flooding the medians.
And these were paved and planted during the drought…never mind the wasted furl driving 1/2 mile to make a turn…
Who decides this stuff.?
El Nino should fix everything in a few months. Everyone is panicking. One of SCV’s biggest attractions is their clean, cut, and landscaped streets. Nothing says “we care about things” more than the entrance to a neighborhood. At the very least, keep watering the foliage. Grass should stay where it’s at, even if it’s not watered. It will all come back after December.
I have been forced to water my yard by hand since I can only 2 days a week and got a notice I was watering on wrong days, however I water more by hand than my sprinklers did! Lol
No cactus!!! I am from AZ and Palmdale is lot far. We don’t need cactus lol
Really,,,I feel they can still water without the extreme “woo is me” we are abiding by the water rules and we are not killing our yards, just a little brown. Why does everyone have to jump on the “waaaaaaa” band wagon, just conserve and deal with it!
Reclaimed water has already been in effect in Lancaster for parks and such. The Lancaster waste water facility discharges tons and tons of it’s reclaimed water to natural water sources ie Apollo park. SCV also has a large waste water facility off the old road. Go and check it out. I believe these facilities have annual field trips. Lancaster had theirs a few months ago. They give you a lot of information on how the reclaimed water is processed.
I just don’t get , we’re in a horrible time right now , mandatory water rationing , it’s great , but why is there sooooo many hundreds of homes and new buildings going up , and i heard of a new mini mall , . but WHERE is all that water going to come from , we’re all doing our part to the best of our ability , but with all the building going on , i don’t see a change coming for the better , the building needs to stop , too much light and soon we see no stars , just how i feel , and it makes me sad ,
What about planting native California plants? Plants and scrubs that were here before we even got here? They are beautiful too. They’ve been through this drought before and survived.
Call me crazy but we live in a desert I’m for desert landscaping myself.
Apparently Walmart and Toys R Us didn’t get the memo. We went into the store yesterday about 1, can back to our truck approximately an hour later and they were still watering the planters in the parking lot.
Time to go to Desertscapes, we (former Californians) in Arizona use. Multi-colored gravel and desert or native plants, it’s actually very nice. Cities like Las Vegas and Phoenix are using it too and the grass is mainly just in the parks. Who wants to mow it anyway?
I was driving home @ 2 am last week and most of the medians on via princesses, whites canyon and others are being watered with plenty of over spray and streams of water running down the street. I am doing my part by stopping watering my lawn completely and the city can not do the same? It irritates me to know I’m doing my part, but that is being cancelled out by the city.
Nobody said you have to be a martyr and let your lawn die! We are saving water inside so we can water plants and lawn just a little. Enough to keep it alive until fall and hopefully rain. Short showers,rinsing dishes in a bowl, paper plates, and giving dirty water to plants, using car wash coupons,etc. This too will pass. Just call the city and tell where you see waste.
You are correct, but I can replace my lawn in-expensively in the fall. No point in watering the few days that they allow, when my lawn will still die. I still water plants and tree’s with dirty water, all I was saying is there is waste all over the city and they can’t do their part. They pay a landscape company with my tax $’s and they can pay that same landscape company to adjust the waste, and to top it off they tell me if i am over watering they are going to fine me?
artificial grass bad for the environment
PLEASE DEEP WATER YOUR TREES AND ESPECIALLY IN THOSE IN YOUR PARKWAY THAT THE CITY PLANTED! I see many that are looking sick. Trees are an important part of our environment and air quality in this city.
Maybe we should stop allowing water to be bottled here in Cali.
The drought is temporary this happens every so often, relax
Huge run off on Newhall Ranch Road just past the Home Depot near corner of Rye Canyon it’s from the center median
What about the river crossing on Soledad westbound near the Santa Clarita Lanes this morning?
Finally! They should all be planted with drought tolerant plants ALL the time.
It looks great! Might as well embrace the desert we live in.
Great, this town is going to start looking like Palmdale.
What about Bridgeport? Cut their water off!!!!
Jenny Jill Castruita Striplin
Yes, I saw the grass is now brown on Stevenson Ranch Pk way, but also saw that new plants were being planted.
Hundreds of dollars were added to our property tax bill to pay for grass,plants,trees,and sprinklers in the medians.Can we get a refund?
What about the shrubs and trees that just got planted along the medians going towards canyon country? On Soledad?
Are those drought tolerant trees and plants?