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1997 - Five bodies found during grading of Northlake development in Castaic; determined to be Jenkins graveyard [story]
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1997 - Five bodies found during grading of Northlake development in Castaic; determined to be Jenkins graveyard [story]
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1905 - County buys property to build Newhall Jail (now next to city's Old Town Newhall Library) [story]
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The city of Santa Clarita is seeking enthusiastic individuals with a passion for swimming, exceptional customer service and community engagement to join the lifeguard team.
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California State Parks is calling all outdoor enthusiasts to step into the new year with a breath of fresh air. On Wednesday, Jan. 1, State Parks will host its highly anticipated First Day Hikes, offering over 90 guided hikes at more than 70 of California’s most iconic and breathtaking parks.
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The South Coast Air Quality Management District has issued a residential No Burn Day Alert on Saturday, Dec. 21, for all those living in the South Coast Air Basin, which includes the Santa Clarita Valley.
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The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is urging residents to avoid consuming or feeding to their pets raw milk due to the ongoing spread of H5 bird flu in dairy cows.
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The Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival is hosting a call for vendors for its return April 12 and 13, 2025.
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The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is reminding residents to remain vigilant as the holidays approach and to use the preventive tools available to protect the county’s most vulnerable populations from COVID-19.
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The Zonta Club of Santa Clarita Valley will host a free Lifeforward workshop "All About Communication" on Saturday, Jan. 18, 9:30 a.m.-12 p.m. at the Valencia United Methodist Church, 25718 McBean Parkway. Valencia, CA 91355.
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Start the new year off with a InfluenceHER Building Transformative Mutual Mentorship meeting Tuesday, Jan. 14 at Kindred Spirits, 24510 Town Center Drive Valencia, CA 91355.
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The Sundance Institute has unveiled the eagerly anticipated program for the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, the country’s premier stage for independent cinema.
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Every year at my Foster Youth Holiday Party, it seems like the presents and kids’ smiles get bigger and bigger!
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Annett Davis, the head coach of both the women's volleyball team and the beach volleyball team at The Masters University, has decided to step down as the head coach of the women's indoor volleyball team.
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The William S. Hart Union High School District has announced Naomi Kim, a senior at West Ranch High School, has earned the Congressional Award’s highest award: The Gold Medal.
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As families prepare to celebrate the holidays, the California Highway Patrol reminds everyone to prioritize safety on the road. To keep travelers safe throughout the busy holiday season, the CHP is initiating the first of two statewide Maximum Enforcement Periods this month to reduce traffic incidents by targeting unsafe driving behaviors and assisting motorists.
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The city of Santa Clarita has announced that renovations are coming to the Santa Clarita Public Library Valencia Branch. The Valencia Branch will be temporarily closed from Dec. 21 through Jan. 1, for a flooring renovation project.
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Matias Castro a graduate of Golden Valley High School, three-time participant in the William S. Hart Union High School District Honor Band and current first-year student at University of Southern California, Thornton School of Music has been named a 2025 YoungArts winner with distinction in Jazz Alto Saxophone, the highest honor of the organization.
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There was no gold, frankincense or the anointing oil myrrh, but the hot sausage, pancakes and special gifts offered at the recent “Breakfast with Santa” held in Valencia were treats for dozens of children and their parents. It was a reminder of the meaning of this special holiday season.
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1892 - Benjamin Harrison establishes 555,520-acre San Gabriel Timberland Reserve (Angeles National Forest). First forest reserve in California, second in U.S. [story]
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Yes I Can Unity Through Music & Education, a nonprofit organization that provides career-skills training and employment services to adults with disabilities, presented certificates of recognition to Remo Inc. and Migrate Sound for the commitment to creating career opportunities for neurodiverse talent.
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The MAIN and Outpost Media has announced the premiere of The Wolves, 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 17, thru Sunday, Jan. 26, at the MAIN located at 24266 Main St., Santa Clarita, CA 91321.
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The Santa Clarita Community College District Board of Trustees, which oversees College of the Canyons, swore in recently elected board members, named its new officers, received recognitions for service and set its 2025 meeting schedule at the board’s business and organizational meeting held on Wednesday, Dec. 18.
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Riddikulus!!
Mr. Runner: your data is outdated and lacks the reality of today, August 2014. I’ve spent the last 55 days in Boulder, CO observing the transformation of 20+ medical marijuana to recreational shops. Here’s a couples myths you don’t mention:
Hey Baby Boomers…this isn’t your ’80’s Disco era weed!
You smoked the leaves in college. the bud, oils, edibles and waxes for sale right now in CO are ‘insane’. Try ‘Ear Wax’ at +80% THC. You can smoke or eat 100 mg of THC or about 10 old joints in 30 seconds.
Marijuana isn’t a gateway drug:
With so much THC is your system at once, you’re less likely to giggle than visualize how cool it would be to get even ‘more out there’. So you try DMT, Peyote or other “Molly’s”. Come to a music festival in Colorado for a full scene of hundreds tripping from THC dosed up with ‘a little something extra’.
Cannabis doesn’t cause Psychotic Breaks
The Mental Health unit at Boulder’s hospital has a regular flow of young adults who experienced severe psychotic breaks from reality because of what they thought was ‘just some good weed’. Turns out THC was a trigger for their brain to go completely haywire for weeks.
Ahh, It’s cool, we’re just catching up on old times
Boomers are the biggest ‘Pot Tourist’ segment. Boulder sold $1MM in legal retail cannabis products in July 2014 alone. There were no students at the Univ of CO. Just tons of 50 somethings walking out with $200 worth of THC to ingest, smoke or rub on. Does it matter if their college age kids see Mom and Dad whacked out on Whiplash Brownies? It’s your call.
When you write, ‘legalize it, so we can research it”….Nope! In America, we innovate! Coming soon from the cannabis chefs: pizza sauce infused with oils. The amount of new products coming to market is ridiculously. The market is predicated to expand +40% annually. The market is chasing new ways to get high – we’ve only just begun.
Cannabis is coming one way or the other! How we look at it has to be much more in tune with today’s consumer and not our outdated ‘research studies’ show approach.
lol
2 on the take from the tobacco and liquor industry. Hey, double the “donations”.
There is absolutely no doubt now that the majority of Americans want to completely legalize marijuana nationwide. Our numbers grow on a daily basis.
The prohibitionist view on marijuana is the viewpoint of a minority of Americans.. It is based upon decades of lies and propaganda put forth largely by The National Institute On Drug Abuse, commonly referred to as NIDA .
“While U.S. officials defend their monopoly, critics say the government is hogging all the pot and giving it mainly to researchers who want to find harms linked to the drug.
U.S. officials say the federal government must be the sole supplier of legal marijuana in order to comply with a 1961 international drug-control treaty. But they admit they’ve done relatively little to fund pot research projects looking for marijuana’s benefits, following their mandate to focus on abuse and addiction.
“We’ve been studying marijuana since our inception. Of course, the large majority of that research has been on the deleterious effects, the harmful effects, on cognition, behavior and so forth,” said Steven Gust, special assistant to the director at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, which was created in 1974.”
Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/201…
Each and every tired old NIDA has propagated has been thoroughly proven false by both science and society.
Their tired old rhetoric no longer holds any validity. The majority of Americans have seen through the sham of marijuana prohibition in this day and age. The number of prohibitionists left shrinks on a daily basis.
With their credibility shattered, and their not so hidden agendas visible to a much wiser public, what’s left for The National Institute On Drug Abuse to do?
Maybe, just come to terms with the fact that Marijuana Legalization Nationwide is an inevitable reality that’s approaching much sooner than prohibitionists think, and there is nothing they can do to stop it!
Legalizing Marijuana will not create an influx of impaired drivers on the road. It will not create an influx of professionals (doctors, pilots, bus drivers, etc..) impaired on the job either. This is a prohibitionist propaganda scare tactic.
Truth: Responsible drivers don’t drive while intoxicated on any substance period! Irresponsible drivers are already on our roads, and they will drive while intoxicated regardless of their drug of choice’s legality. Therefore Legalizing Marijuana will have little to zero impact on the amount of impaired drivers on our roads.
The same thing applies to people being impaired on the job. Responsible people do not go to work intoxicated, period. Regardless of their drug of choice’s legality.
Truth: What message are we sending our children when it is easier for them to obtain marijuana now with it being illegal than it is for them to buy alcohol?
It doesn’t take the intellect of a genius to understand that stores card kids for I.D.. Thugs and gang members do not. They also push the real hard drugs on children. Stores do not.
Marijuana legalization will make it harder for children to obtain it.
What message does it send our children when the President of The United States himself alongside a long list of successful people openly admit regular pot use at one time or another in their lives while we tell our kids how it will ruin their futures, and then ensure so by allowing our government to send our kids to jail and give them permanent criminal records when they get caught with a little marijuana? Especially if they are the wrong skin color or from the “wrong neighborhood”. Which in turn, ruins their chances of employment for life.
The Prohibition of Marijuana is the wrong message to send our children while we advertise and promote the much more dangerous use of alcohol like it’s an all American pastime.
The worst thing about marijuana and our children is what happens to them when they get caught up in the criminal justice system due to it’s prohibition.
The government should not attempt to legislate morality by creating victim-less “crimes” because it simply does not work and costs the taxpayers a fortune.
Marijuana Legalization Nationwide is an inevitable reality that’s approaching much sooner than prohibitionists think and there is nothing they can do to stop it!
Fear of Marijuana Legalization Nationwide is unfounded. Not based on any science or fact whatsoever. So please all you prohibitionists, we beg you to give your scare tactics, “Conspiracy Theories” and “Doomsday Scenarios” over the inevitable Legalization of Marijuana a rest. Nobody is buying them anymore these days. Okay?
Furthermore, if all you prohibitionists get when you look into that nice, big and shiny, crystal ball of yours, while wondering about the future of marijuana legalization, is horror, doom, and despair, well then I suggest you return that thing as quickly as possible and reclaim the money you shelled out for it, since it is obviously defective.
The prohibition of marijuana has not decreased the supply nor the demand for marijuana at all. Not one single iota, and it never will. Just a huge and complete waste of our tax dollars to continue criminalizing citizens for choosing a natural, non-toxic, relatively benign plant proven to be much safer than alcohol.
If prohibitionists are going to take it upon themselves to worry about “saving us all” from ourselves, then they need to start with the drug that causes more death and destruction than every other drug in the world COMBINED, which is alcohol!
Why do prohibitionists feel the continued need to vilify and demonize marijuana when they could more wisely focus their efforts on a real, proven killer, alcohol, which again causes more destruction, violence, and death than all other drugs, COMBINED?
Prohibitionists really should get their priorities straight and or practice a little live and let live. They’ll live longer, happier, and healthier, with a lot less stress if they refrain from being bent on trying to control others through Draconian Marijuana Laws.
Legalize Nationwide! Support All Marijuana Legalization Efforts!
Same old tired politicians, spouting the same old tired talking points. Tell me something new and maybe I’ll listen. Until then…LEGALIZE IT!
The main reason for the legalization of cannabis for adult consumption is that pure product can be regulated and controlled. Right now, there is a huge black market for pot and our kids can get marijuana if they want it. Just this past week in New Hampshire, the governor had to declare a state of emergency over synthetic marijuana that had been stocked in vending machines and our youth had access enough to sicken over forty kids. With proper guidance through legal channels, marijuana can be controlled and cannabis will be thoroughly inspected for purity before it hits the shelves and anyone under the age of 21 will not be able to buy it, legally.
Right now, with the things the way they are, the public sector is at risk when they go out to purchase pot. Those who wish not to buy marijuana will still be able to abstain from exposure however the black market sales are funding more crime in our cities and in our suburbs.
I have written Attorney General Holder about working with the National Organization for Reformation of Marijuana Laws to put in to place a significant plan of guidance from the federal level to the states so that if a certain state legalizes marijuana for adult consumption then there will be purity and distribution strategies that will protect our children and community just as the ABC has strict guidance on the sales of alcohol.
I do understand your view and it does have a great deal of merit however now, there are seventeen more states that have legalization initiatives on the upcoming November ballots. I am certain that our nation’s capital will have marijuana legalized after November; we have statistics to prove this and if we don’t get a handle on the inevitable now, it may be too late in the not to distant future.
Respectfully,
Simon Hardinsky
Virginia NORML
Lol
Legalize and tax it…financial woes? What financial woes…
The prohibition of Cannabis has caused much more hardship than the plant ever has. So you’re saying we should keep it up hoping for an eventual better outcome? What might that be?
One definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over hoping for a different outcome.
What positive benefit has come out of cannabis prohibition? Go ahead, name one… I’ll wait.
Decriminalize it. Deschedulize it. And legalize it!
California should vote YES on freedom and YES on personal responsibility and NO on prohibition! Get the true facts; do not accept what you read here as truth because it is twisted. Do your own research and vote to legalize cannabis!
I don’t care, either way, but those people that are pictured scare me.
There wasn’t a single link to a credible source for any of those facts and numbers, so I’m honestly finding them difficult to believe. :P
Although anyone who seems to think a lower IQ (marijuana) is worse than the cancer-inducing gunk (tobacco) that people voluntarily put into their lungs after experiencing nicotine poisoning initially may not be all that credible to begin with.
I wonder what target group George and Sharon and their ilk are trying to reach. “Reefer Madness” type misinformation is good for yuks but it has had less and less impact on the ‘sheeple’ as their exposure to it continued. Along with their lack of creditability they use a picture of themselves that will resurface around Halloween(shades of Jim and Tammy Bakker) to scare the kids with. What kind of message do they think they’re sending and who do they think will believe it? Underestimating the enemy is dangerous , especially when we’re winning, but if we match up Patrick Kennedy against Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Michele Leonhart with Sarah Palin, we could pit George and Sharon against Cheech and Chong for a very good drawing card. Vegas gets uncomfortable when the betting all goes one way, hence putting Sarah on the card. By the way the latest polls in Florida are showing almost 90% for medical Cannabis. It appears that the obstructionist/prohibitionists are running out of believable straw dogs who are willing to look like fools. Cannabis never should have been banned.
This whole article is option. No actual facts. Where are your sources. Haha embarrassing.
Sorry George, but you just made a total fool of yourself. Next time please reference your facts, if you can and they are not all lies..LOL
Saying “no” to regulating cannabis is doing our children a disservice. Currently they obtain the substance from black marketers who not only don’t care who they sell to but most carry with them other, more dangerous substances like cocaine, meth and heroin, thus exposing children to the real “gateway”. As a legislator who has attended many hearings on the medical use of cannabis, I have heard many times the story of a patient, who in their 50’s or 60’s and now dealing with cancer treatments, who knew not where to obtain cannabis for relief. That same patient turns to their children or grandchildren because the kids know where to get it easily. I asked, “do you think that same child could get a bottle of whiskey as easily?”; and the answer is “NO!”. This, among other things is the reason I now support regulating cannabis like alcohol…