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The 76.6-mile-long Antelope Valley Line has the third-highest ridership in Metrolink’s system with an estimated average of 9,000 passengers daily. However, the uneven terrain and single-tracking along the line in some areas forces trains to travel at a slower speed which results in an estimated travel time of approximately one hour between Santa Clarita and Union Station.
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Team Dragon Eyes, affectionately known as TDE, is gearing up to host its highly anticipated Fifth Annual Dragonboat Festival race on Saturday, June 1 at Castaic Lake, Lower Lagoon.
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This year marks the 20th year that the city of Santa Clarita has been hosting the annual Bike to Work Challenge. The community is invited to celebrate by riding a bike to work the week of May 13, and stopping by a pit stop on Thursday, May 16.
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Ready to take control of your financial future? Join the Los Angeles County Department of Consumer and Business Affairs Center for Financial Empowerment for the next installment in the Lunch & Learn Financial Capability Month webinar series, "Understanding Credit.
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The Santa Clarita Valley Concert Band will perform a "Starry Might" concert at 7 p.m. on Saturday May 4. The concert, under the direction of Tim Durand, will be held at the Canyon Theatre Guild, 24242 Main St., Newhall, CA 91321.
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After a record-setting 2023 combatting organized retail crime, the California Highway Patrol continues to aggressively disrupt and dismantle illegal operations throughout California.
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Celebrate Earth Day on Monday, April 22 with California State Parks at any of the 280 unique park units across the state. State Parks has numerous Earth Day-themed events planned. They include in-person activities such as guided walks and hikes, workdays and a bioblitz, as well as virtual programming with a live dive broadcast exploring the hidden world of the ocean.
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1930 - Telephone switchboard operator Louise Gipe, heroine of the 1928 St. Francis Dam disaster, tries & fails to kill herself over an unrequited love [story]
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Los Angeles County Sheriff Department’s Major Crimes Bureau Detectives worked closely with Century Station Detectives after learning of a serial robbery crew committing crimes throughout Los Angeles County.
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Join the Samuel Dixon Family Health Center for their second annual Cornhole Tournament fundraiser where all proceeds will support mental health services to anyone in need.
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California State University, Northridge will confer honorary doctorates on four alumni, all respected leaders in their fields, at the university’s commencement ceremonies next month.
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On Saturday, April 20, 2024 Valencia High School Theatre will host the 104th DTASC (Drama Teachers’ Association of Southern California) Shakespeare Festival.
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The Los Angeles County Department of Economic Opportunity, in partnership with Supervisor Holly J. Mitchell, launched the Commercial Acquisition Fund to provide capital to countywide non-profit organizations, helping acquire and revitalize commercial spaces within local communities affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Supervisor Barger issued the following statement today, after the Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to implement the Rental Housing Habitability Program
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The Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts will be holding a free Household Hazardous Waste and E-Waste Recycling event for Santa Clarita residents.
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The award-winning Valencia High School Theatre Arts proudly presents “The Outsiders” directed by Stephen Whelan.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit affirmed a $68.5 million judgment Monday for SCV Water for the cleanup of local groundwater contamination in its case against the Whittaker Corporation.
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Angelo Aleman smacked a pair of home runs as College of the Canyons concluded its three-game series vs. Antelope Valley College with a 10-5 home victory at Mike Gillespie Field on Friday.
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Cowboy Festival weekend is upon us!
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Castaic Union School District is thrilled to announce that Lara Frandzel has been selected to participate in the Teacher Innovator Institute at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C
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The city of Santa Clarita’s exciting Concerts in the Park series, presented by Logix Federal Credit Union, makes its highly anticipated return this summer for friends, families and neighbors to gather under the evening sky and enjoy free, live musical performances on Saturdays from July 6 to Aug. 24, at Central Park, located at 27150 Bouquet Canyon Road.
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The Master's University men's volleyball team left no doubt about it as they swept the OUAZ Spirit 25-22, 25-14, 25-22 in the season finale Saturday in The MacArthur Center.
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I truly sympathize with the people living around the Chiquita Landfill, but let’s keep in mind that landfill was there long before most of the nearby homes and commercial buildings were put in place. Noting that NL&F is planning a huge development across the highway (not sure it’s correct that it’s the largest in the US), is silly. You’re arguing to close a landfill (or at least stop it’s expansion) because new building around it? And, your write-up would have more impact if it didn’t cite incorrect information. Even when expanded to 12,000 tons/day, Chiquita would not match the largest in the US. Newton County Landfill in Georgia (to name one) is over 20,000 tons/day.
Let’s step back and look logically at this. If we truly want to shut down Chiquita, where would we relocate operations? It is truly one of the largest in California. What other location would be better for dumping this much waste? I don’t like it in my backyard either (as a resident of SCV), but it’s been in-service since 1972. It’s not like it just sprang up over the past year and is causing problems. Seriously, instead of building new schools, housing, and commercial properties nearby, how about considering doing the new development elsewhere?
I truly sympathize with the people living around the Chiquita Landfill, but let’s keep in mind that landfill was there long before many of the nearby homes and most of the commercial buildings were put in place. Noting that NL&F is planning a huge development across the highway (not sure it’s correct that it’s the largest in the US), is silly. You’re arguing to close a landfill (or at least stop it’s expansion) because new building around it?
And, your write-up would have more impact if it didn’t cite incorrect information. Even when expanded to 12,000 tons/day, Chiquita would not match the largest in the US. Newton County Landfill in Georgia (to name one) is over 20,000 tons/day.
Let’s step back and look logically at this. If we truly want to shut down Chiquita (and I’m not saying we shouldn’t), where would we relocate operations? It is truly one of the largest in California. What other location would be better for dumping this much waste? I don’t like it in my backyard either (as a resident of SCV), but it’s been in-service since 1972. It’s not like it just sprang up over the past year and is causing problems. Seriously, instead of building new schools, housing, and commercial properties nearby, how about considering doing the new development elsewhere?
If we really want to considering shutting down Chiquita, we have to at least have a viable alternative solution for the waste they currently handle today.
Agree. Alternative, would be to stop building. In my opinion, Santa Clarita wasn’t designed to handle the population. We are at our limit. Our roads can’t handle the amount of traffic. Bouquet canyon wasn’t designed for the amount of commute traffic and so on. I would hate to see how Santa Clarita would be able to handle another ’94 earthquake. We will be screwed since our roads weren’t designed for extreme population. I think another recommendation would be to fire the people who designed our city. Just my opinion anyways. :)
thanks for the information on newton county landfill. Who said shut down, i didn’t. i said recycle. maybe turn some of it into petroleum. but in my opinion there should be a counter balance to our pile of mess. so realistically its just promotion of less waste, and some type of machine to change our size of waste would be practical.
meeting tonight
We do – Misquite Regional Landfill that we PAID for and sits empty. This is all about money staying in the county and has nothing to do with not having a place to send the trash. Check it out….
Stop building houses holy hell
“Hey let’s cram a million McMansions into the hills with a utterly tapped out freeway system and no public transportation system to compensate” -Santa Clarita
You don’t even live here and you know how crammed this freakin town is hahahaha
Oh I know, I sit with all the SCV commuters every morning on the 405
The 14 is starting to look like the 405
we got to stop expanding….
The people should have free cooking gas from the land fill.
Kristen Allec
Shut down a landfill because you want to build hundreds of additional trash producing homes . . . Makes you go . . . Huh?
Yep, development for the sake of development – oh yeah, and money. Give a listen to the Eagles song “Last Resort”. While you listen, understand that its about California. Particular attention to the last line. “Kiss it goodbye”.
Sadly, it’s not just CA Dennis.
Surely a new freeway will be built exclusively for this housing development that connects to the 118 and 5/14 interchange…
There is a new freeway as part of the master plan proposal that goes behind (to the west) Stevenson Ranch and Westranch to the 126 highway. I think it is at the west side of Pico out to the 126 highway, but not sure. When those towns try to fight it and expect support from people in Castaic they may not feel as obliged to step up and fight for them. It certainly would make a drive easier for many in Castaic to the valley at the cost of leveling many hills and mountain areas – their view! This landfill expansion is part of a bigger plan and people had better wake up FAST and get on board or they will find their own interests bulldozed over too.
Great article, but too bad it didn’t get published BEFORE the hearing so that people would know to attend and voice their concerns.
Yeah, isn’t that just like Newhall Land to quickly try to get their housing tract approved BEFORE the landfill so that people there wouldn’t know they were living right across from one. With the new heights allowed, will they all be looking at it as well as smelling it? What a surprise they will get if they buy over there.
There are other places for this garbage to go, and we all should be doing a lot better job at reduce, reuse, recycle, both for our air quality and water quality.
AND for, anyone that missed this hearing, there will be another one downtown at Regional Planning on April 19th.
we didn’t receive it until a couple of hours before the hearing. (Note: we are not in the habit of rushing things like that. We need at least 48 hours.)
Looks like the host of c4cclc.com was CLOUDFLARE.COM — contact them and let us know what you find out
The hearing April 19th will have a video feed in Santa Clarita. The place is still to be determined. But, if you are interested in being heard you can show up to that location. The more people that are heard and show up, the harder it will be for them to ignore the people and favor the big money in their decision.