Once more around the track, or circle, or roundabout. Do all y’all remember the huge discussion about art that could be used for the Old Town Newhall traffic circle-roundabout? Should we have this statue or that statue, or maybe landscaping or a monument to a local hero? One design showed what looked...

This isn’t about the Santa Clarita Valley. Not today. It is something I’ve been working on for some time. Where were you on this day 13 years ago? Folks tend to remember important dates and events by what they were doing and where they were doing it. For example, when President Kennedy was assassinated,...

Darn it. I’ve got to go to the bank tomorrow to deposit all those checks the city of Santa Clarita, Metrolink and All-vision sent me to write what I’ve written about billboards. I’m sure all of us who support the billboard ordinance are headed to the bank to do that. Especially the City Council...

I don’t answer comments if they are dumb. Constructive and critical discussion is appropriate in my mind. I also don’t respond to folks who don’t leave last names on the comments they write. I’ve got some real concerns about the folks who have pushed the billboard issue to the ballot. They have...

I am now convinced the whole issue about the billboards came about via some wonderful folks on Facebook. Those 22 or so folks have cost the city about $1 million in election costs because of some of the “truths” they were telling themselves and later, others. It seems to me that a certain propaganda...

You read about someone who gives time and talent to help the community. You might even see them on SCVTV. They might be a celebrity all over the country or maybe just here. I hope to write about folks who are usually unsung and untarnished by celebrity status. If you know of someone like that, let me...

Sometimes there is just too much to do here in the SCV. Times, they have changed. Gone are the days when we would pool enough money to put some gas in the car and go cruising in “the valley.” We can do that here now. And it takes about 10 times the money to go one tenth of the distance. Tonight at...

The same old Hart High classmate from many, many years ago called and said he had once again been transported to the Planet Laconia. I write this chronicle as requested by my chemically affected classmate so that all shall know of his exploits throughout the galaxy. In times past, I chronicled the exploits...

Do you remember your first time? That first time you drove from the SCV to the ocean? I think I was in the first grade at Castaic Elementary School. What were you thinking? It was a typical, extremely hot summer day and we packed the car – a 1953 Chevy Bel Aire – and piled in. Like usual,...

I see from some of the comments and email I get that folks get confused about what we call our city, neighborhoods, communities and even our valley. Things like where the city of Santa Clarita starts and where it ends, plus a few other notes I’ve been keeping. Before cityhood in 1987, we were all governed...