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State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond testified today in the Senate Education Committee about the need for results-proven training for all teachers of reading and math.
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The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health cautions residents who are planning to visit the below Los Angeles County beaches to avoid swimming, surfing, and playing in ocean waters:
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Dust off the boots and get ready to holler, because Boots In The Park making its way to back to Santa Clarita, y’all.
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State Senator Scott Wilk (R-Santa Clarita) and Supervisor Kathryn Barger honor the memory of those lost 109 years ago in Armenian Genocide.
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The Salvation Army Santa Clarita Valley Corps is excited to announce the inaugural Donut Day event.
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The Los Angeles County Animal Care Foundation has approved $370,000 in funding to support the Vet@ThePark program operated by the County of Los Angeles Department of Animal Care and Control.
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The California Department of Public Health is encouraging Californians to take part in National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on April 27.
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The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a motion, introduced by Supervisor Kathryn Barger and co-authored by Board Chair Lindsey P. Horvath, proclaiming May 2024 as Mental Health Awareness Month in Los Angeles County.
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The Grammy-award winning rock ‘n’ roll group Blues Traveler will take the stage of the Santa Clarita Performing Arts Center at 8 p.m. May 9.
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1962 - SCV residents vote to connect to State Water Project, creating Castaic Lake Water Agency (now part of SCV Water) [story]
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Los Angeles County Fifth District Supervisor Kathryn Barger issued a statement in support of the Los Angeles County Chief Executive Officer’s presentation of a $45.4 billion budget for the forthcoming 2024-25 fiscal year.
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In a celebration held Tuesday, April 23 at the Port of Barcelona, award-winning actress and performer Hannah Waddingham officially welcomed the newest and most innovative Princess Cruises ship, Sun Princess, serving as godmother during a star-studded naming ceremony.
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Six comprehensive high schools in the William S. Hart Union High School District which includes Canyon, Golden Valley, Hart, Saugus, Valencia and West Ranch have been ranked among the top public high schools in the country by U.S. News & World Report.
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College of the Canyons will offer four summer sessions running from June 3 through Aug. 17, giving students a variety of options in both class format and scheduling designed to help them achieve their educational goals, from launching a new career to transferring to a four-year university.
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California State Sen. Scott Wilk, R-Santa Clarita, announced his measure to combat illegal dumping, by increasing penalties and closing a loophole which has enabled the problem for years, was approved in the Senate Public Safety Committee.
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Super Jazz at the Ranch, a daylong jazz festival hosted by West Ranch High School, is happening Saturday, May 18. Music will fill the air as performers from throughout the region showcase their talents.
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California State Assemblywoman Pilar Schiavo, D-Chatsworth, has presented The Healthy Homework Act (AB 2999) to the Assembly Education Committee.
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The city of Santa Clarita has notified the public that the playground at West Creek Park, 24247 Village Circle Drive, Valencia, CA 91354, is currently closed for repairs on the rubberized surface.
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The Santa Clarita Valley Media Collaborative invites 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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1986 - COC board votes to allow Argentine cliff swallows to nest forever on sides of buildings [story]
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As Volunteer Appreciation Week approaches, the County of Los Angeles Department of Animal Care and Control wishes to extend heartfelt gratitude to all its dedicated volunteers who tirelessly contribute to DACC's mission of advancing the well-being of animals and people in the County.
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The Canyon Country Farmers Market will be celebrating their two-year anniversary Wednesday, April 24.
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The Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital Auxiliary presented a $35,000 check Monday to the Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital Foundation for the foundation’s Patient Tower Capital Campaign.
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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.