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SCV Home Prices Remain at 6-Year High
Saturday, Jun 21, 2014

Previously owned single-family homes in the Santa Clarita Valley are commanding the highest prices we’ve seen since the start of the 2008 recession, according to data this week from the Southland Regional Association of Realtors. The typical house in Santa Clarita changed hands for $485,000 in May...

Newhall Man, 18, Killed on San Francisquito
Thursday, Jun 19, 2014

An 18-year-old Newhall man was killed Wednesday afternoon when he lost control of his car and collided with an oncoming vehicle on San Francisquito Canyon Road in Saugus. According to a CHP report, Andrew A. Reynoso was traveling southbound at about 55mph when his 2001 Toyota Corolla began to drift onto...

Strickland, Knight Advance to November Showdown
Wednesday, Jun 4, 2014

Tony Strickland Voters in California’s 25th Congressional District made history Tuesday when they gave the go-ahead to Republicans Tony Strickland and Steve Knight. It’s the first time two members of the same party are lined up to fight each other for the seat in the general election. It’s a quirk...

Lost SCV-Related 1928 Film Reappears After Falling to Nazis, Soviets
Sunday, Mar 30, 2014

A newly rediscovered 1928 film with an “SCV connection” made its world premiere Saturday night in Los Angeles – 86 years and one day after it made its original world premiere. The film is the Edwin Carewe version of “Ramona” starring Dolores Del Rio, and it had been lost to time until a print...

TV Ghost Hunters Investigate Newhall Ranch House
Sunday, Mar 23, 2014

What evil lurks in the SCV Historical Society’s Newhall Ranch House? For years, believers have talked about a mysterious “blue lady” named Martha and maybe an 8-year-old boy named Timothy in an upstairs corner of the 150-year-old ranch house in the Heritage Junction section of William S. Hart Park....

More SCV Homes Offered for Sale as Prices Rise
Wednesday, Mar 19, 2014

More SCV homeowners are listing their property for sale as home values rise, but relatively few homes are changing hands as sellers hold out for even higher prices. That’s the word from the Southland Regional Association of Realtors, which issued the February home-sales data Wednesday. February saw...

Season’s First Rabid Bat Turns Up in Agua Dulce
Friday, Mar 7, 2014

Mexican free-tailed bat (the kind we have in SCV) | Courtesy Evelyne Vandersande Blame the unseasonably warm weather. Blame the spirit of Bela Lugosi. Just don’t blame us. Rabies season got off to an early start this year. Los Angeles County’s first rabid bat of 2014 turned up in February in...

March 11: Public Invited to Acton Historical Society’s First Gathering
Thursday, Mar 6, 2014

Acton is a 130-year-old frontier mining town – its first permanent resident settled there in the 1880s – but its historical society is brand new. How new is it? The Acton Historical Society is so new, you can get in on the ground floor. The organization will hold its first public gathering Tuesday,...

CalArts Alum’s Film Tops $1 Bil., Wins Oscar Same Day
Sunday, Mar 2, 2014

The same day its worldwide box-office receipts topped $1 billion, “Frozen” – co-directed by Jennifer Lee and 1978 CalArts grad Chris Buck – added an Oscar to its trophy collection Sunday. Two months ago it won the 2014 Golden Globe Award for best animated feature film. Weekend estimates were...

Supes to Sign Off on Agua Dulce Special Standards
Friday, Feb 28, 2014

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors will consider adopting major changes to the Agua Dulce Community Standards District on Tuesday – changes that have been in the works since 2010. The new zoning calls for minimum 2-acre lot sizes for new subdivisions with a minimum depth of 165 feet and a...

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College of the Canyons took a run in the rain at the 2024 California Community College Athletic Association (3C2A) Cross Country State Championships at Woodward Park in Fresno on Saturday, Nov. 23 highlighted by an eighth-place individual result from freshman Victoria Jamison that also pushed the women's squad to ninth in the team standings.
COC Women’s XCountry Takes Ninth at State Championships
The Santa Clarita Planning Commission will hold its regular meeting Tuesday, Dec. 3, at 6 p.m., in City Hall's Council Chambers
Dec. 3: Planning Commission Meets to Consider Firearms, Tobacco Shops
Los Angeles County Fire Department Division 3 has a scheduled brush pile burn in the surrounding fields near West Ranch High School in Stevenson Ranch on Sunday, Dec.1 from 8:30 a.m. to approximately 2 p.m.
Dec. 1: LACoFD Schedules Brush Pile Burn in Stevenson Ranch
When my kids were young, one of their favorite games was Candyland.
Bill Miranda | Family Literacy Festival in Candyland!
Behind a career-high 32 points from Jaren Nafarrete, The Master's University men's basketball team defeated the Nobel University Knights 108-52 Tuesday afternoon in Fullerton.
TMU Men’s Basketball Scores Big Over Knights
Zoya Kalinsky, an eighth grader at iLEAD Hybrid Charter School in the Santa Clarita Valley, a tuition-free TK-12 institution, has emerged as a powerful voice for global education reform.
iLEAD Eighth Grader Zoya Kalinsky Advocates for Global Education Reform
The Valencia High School Marching Band and Color Guard capped off a stellar 2024 Fall season by securing a first-place victory in the 2A division at the Southern California School Band and Orchestra Association Championships on Saturday, Nov. 23 in West Covina.
VHS Marching Band, Color Guard Win Gold Meda at 2A Championships
The HASP & RSX Team and Aerospace and Science Team Club at College of the Canyons is seeking public support on Giving Tuesday, Dec. 3.
COC HASP, RSX Team Seeks Support on Giving Tuesday
On Dec. 11, CDPH is hosting an expert advisory panel titled, “Population-Based Behavioral Health Prevention Strategies.”
Dec. 11: CDPH Hosts Online Meeting on Behavioral Health Prevention Strategies
1957 - Incorporation of Mint Canyon Chamber of Commerce; became Canyon Country Chamber [story]
Frontier Days
LA Metro’s I-5 North County Enhancements Project recently held a Construction Update community meeting via Zoom. Officials presented an outline of recent and upcoming activities over the next 2-3 months
LA Metro I-5 North County Enhancements Project Construction Update
Get ready for an unforgettable night of glitz, glamour and gambling when you join Child & Family Center for Viva Las Vegas on Saturday, Jan. 25, 6:30-10 p.m. at the Sand Canyon Country Club.
Jan. 25: Viva Las Vegas Fundraiser for Child & Family
The California Department of Public Health is issuing a second warning to Californians to not consume raw milk produced and packaged by Raw Farm, LLC of Fresno County due to a detection of bird flu virus in a second retail sample.
Second Lot of Raw Milk Found with Bird Flu Virus
The biggest global giving day of the year, Giving Tuesday, is on Tuesday, Dec. 3.
Painted Turtle Seeks Support on Giving Tuesday
Princess Cruises, headquartered in Valencia, is setting sail on a wave of nostalgia and star power with its new global advertising campaign.
Princess Cruises Debuts New Love Boat Ad Campaign
Los Angeles County Treasurer and Tax Collector Elizabeth Buenrostro Ginsberg reminds property owners that the first installment of the 2024-25 Annual Secured Property Taxes becomes delinquent if not received by 5 p.m. Pacific Time or United States Postal Service postmarked on or before Tuesday, Dec. 10.
Dec. 10: Deadline for First Installment of L.A. County Property Taxes
1950 - CalArts grad Ed Harris ("A Beautiful Mind," "Apollo 13," "Westworld") born in New Jersey [link]
Ed Harris
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is advising people to avoid consuming raw milk the has been voluntarily recalled by Raw Farm, LLC due to a detection of H5 bird flu virus in a sample of milk sold in retail stores in Los Angeles County.
UPDATED: Recalled Raw Milk – H5 Bird Flu Detected in Raw Milk Sold in Santa Clarita
Princess Cruises, famously known as “The Love Boat,” celebrated the highly anticipated arrival of Caribbean Princess in Port Canaveral today, marking the launch of a new season of Caribbean cruises from this convenient Central Florida homeport.
Caribbean Princess Arrives in Port Canaveral for First-Ever Season of Cruises
The city of Santa Clarita is encouraging interested and qualified residents to apply for several positions serving on multiple commissions.  
Applications Now Being Accepted for City of Santa Clarita Commission Vacancies
Officers from the County of Los Angeles Department of Animal Care and Control will be conducting field pet licensing efforts in the unincorporated area of Castaic beginning on Jan. 2, 2025.
DACC to Conduct Pet Licensing Efforts in Unincorporated L.A. County
Miriam Udel, associate professor of German studies, and London Evans, director of the Tam Institute of Jewish Studies at Emory University, will discuss how to “build good kids” on Monday, Dec. 2, as part of the 12th annual Maurice Amado Foundation Lecture in Jewish Ethics.
Amado Lecture to Explore Twentieth-Century Jewish Children’s Literature
 Get ready for a sweet day of fun at the 17th annual Family Literacy Festival at the Santa Clarita Public Library, Old Town Newhall Branch, on Saturday, Dec. 7, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. 
Dec. 7: Sweet Adventures Await at the Santa Clarita Public Library’s 17th Annual Family Literacy Festival
Music can transform lives, help people deal with stress and overcome trauma. At its most basic level, it can temporarily transport a listener from the mundane circumstances of their lives to a world filled with joy and beauty.
CSUN’s Wind Ensemble to Perform Holiday Concert for State Prisoners
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