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The South Coast Air Quality Management District has issued a residential No Burn Day Alert on Friday, Dec. 27 for all those living in the South Coast Air Basin, which includes the Santa Clarita Valley.
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The Saugus High School Instrumental Music Program is hosting its third annual Clothes for Cash fundraising event 9 a.m.- Noon Saturdays, Jan. 11, 18 and 25 at Saugus High School.
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Did you receive great new electronic gifts for the holidays? Awesome! Now where can you safely dispose of the old stuff? Where to take phones, TVs, computers, portable devices and more?
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Santa Clarita is a special place. It is the city where I chose to make my home, raise my family and now serve the community as a city councilmember.
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The Wish Education Foundation Wednesday Webinar series continues on Wednesday, Jan. 15 with "Trends in College Admissions and ROI on Majors."
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As the New Year approaches Santa Clarita Valley residents can enjoy a few New Year's Eve and New Year's Day events in the SCV.
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The MAIN will present "Heaven Can Wait" by Terrance Carty, showing Friday, Jan. 10-12 at 24266 Main St., Santa Clarita, CA 91321.
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The Docent Training Program at Placerita Canyon Nature Center, led by Ron K will welcome the next generation of nature enthusiasts to orientation on Tuesday, Jan. 14.
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The American Red Cross will host a blood drive Friday, Dec. 27, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at Santa Clarita Sports Centre, 20880 Centre Pointe Parkway, Santa Clarita, CA 91350.
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The application cutoff for the next WomansNet $10,000 Amber Grant for businesses owned by women is Dec. 31.
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The Cube – Ice and Entertainment Center | Powered by FivePoint Valencia has opened registration for its learn to skate sessions for January and February.
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SCV Water is asking customers to refrain from all outdoor water use during the weeks of Jan. 6-13 and Jan. 27-Feb. 3 due to scheduled maintenance on facilities at Castaic Lake that will restrict the agency’s imported water supply.
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College of the Canyons men's basketball was the victim of an 82-79 road loss at Rio Hondo College on Wednesday, Dec. 18, with the Cougars falling despite a 22-point performance from Justin Perez.
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1873 - Vasquez gang raids Kingston in (now) Kings County; ties up townspeople, makes off with $2,500 in cash and jewels [ story]
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Marianne Paris Sneider, a beloved long-time friend and patron of the Roar Foundation, died on July 21. Her generous spirit is reflected in her estate plan, which provides for a gift of $100,000 to the Roar Foundation in honor of Tippi Hedren, provided that the Roar Foundation receives $100,000 in matching grants within one year of her death.
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More than a dozen Val Verde and Castaic residents and community leaders came together on Tuesday, Dec. 17, to decry the “inaction and lack of concern” of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors around the public health emergency in the "diverse" community around the Chiquita Canyon Landfill operated by Waste Connections.
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1852 - Acton gold mine owner & California Gov. Henry Tifft Gage born in New York [ story]
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The Gibbon Conservation Center in Saugus is offering the 2025 Gibbon Calendar for $15 plus $5 shipping. Purchasing a calendar or other items from the Gibbon Center Gift Shop helps support the care and feeding of the endangered small apes living at the Gibbon Conservation Center in Saugus.
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Exercising its mandate to improve transparency and accountability in law enforcement, the Los Angeles County Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission has created a special committee to investigate how the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department handles complaints made by members of the public against its deputies.
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Four students from California Institute of the Arts Character Animation program have been awarded scholarships by ASIFA-Hollywood’s Animation Educators Forum for the 2024-25 academic year.
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On Sunday, Dec. 15, nearly 2,000 people dressed in their favorite holiday outfits attended the Metrolink Holiday Express Train at the city of Santa Clarita’s Vista Canyon Multi-Modal Center in Canyon Country.
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The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is advising residents to not feed their pets raw food following a voluntary recall of Northwest Naturals Brand 2lb Feline Turkey Recipe Raw & Frozen Pet Food due to detection of H5 bird flu virus in product samples.
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The joy of the holiday season can quickly be ruined by scams, theft and fraud. Before you make a purchase or a donation it’s important to use caution. To help you navigate safely through the holidays
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The City of Santa Clarita invites the community to come together for a Unity Walk in celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day at Central Park, 27150 Bouquet Canyon Road, Santa Clarita, CA 91350, on Monday, Jan.20 at 8 a.m.
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34 Comments
Its about time! There are to many pedestrians j walking and texting
Problem is that it’s not just pedestrians. It’s also the drivers who think they’re above the cell phone laws or they just don’t care enough to pay close attention to their surroundings.
Finally
Curb to curb people. Do not proceed until the pedestrian is on one.
People need to learn to pay attention!! Just because your in a crosswalk doesn’t mean the car will see you!! Having the right of way means nothing when your dead…
Too bad they wont do the same for all the illegals
How true
Well my son Wyatt Savaikie was abiding by the laws he had the green light to walk, in a marked cross walk when a red light driver plowed into him at 45 miles an hour, throwing into a pole and killed him and our family will never, ever be the same. Limits this high are not survivable when someone runs a red-light, notice that I said when they run a red-light not if they run a red-light. Our roads are unsurvivable, there is no room for error and when our babies, our children, our elderly and our community cannot cross a street without risking loss of life is not so AWESOME. An Awesome town needs to make sure our roads are survivable for our citizens and our young. Though Wyatt wasn’t breaking any rules, was 100% NOT at fault some people just don’t pay attention and sometimes kids will be kids and jaywalk which is dangerous but still if our limits weren’t so high they would survive, just as an elderly person trying to cross one of our city crosswalks often can’t get across the crosswalk before the light changes, I and others have witnessed seniors unable to get across Bouquet and sadly sometimes they just turn back because they know they won’t make it. I’m preparing to go to the Youth Grove Ceremony tonight at Central Park. On several occasions we have been at the youth grove and at times we would discuss safety, safety, safety and now I will attend this event with a deep, deep broken heart, still unable to wrap my heart around the idea that Wyatt will never come home again. I am glad that to hear that some sort of action is being taken to protect our community but we really need changes in the speed limits in this valley, some people just don’t pay attention. I watch for animals from a distance but not all of us do that, people just wouldn’t die or be severely injured if our speed limits weren’t so darn high. Heck New York dropped their speed limits to 25, stating that while reducing speed limits from 30 to 25 won’t decrease accidents, a lower speed limit gives the pedestrian a much greater chance at surviving without great harm or death. So at 45, 50 and everyone knows that so,e people are driving much faster than that, our speed limits are simply not survivable even when a pedestrian is suppose to be safe, so many of us simply don’t pay attention.
Carol Clark, thank you, well said! From Wyatt Savaikie’s Mom.
Watch out Now!!! He’s a comin’!
Go by any school , tell me why kids don’t look both ways before crossing the street
When did people stop teaching this to kids
I use a crosswalk almost everyday and have lost count of how many vehicles rush past me to get by as I’m already in the crosswalk. Vehicles don’t keep the crosswalk clear and there have been many times thatI have to wait and make eye contact with the driver because they haven’t looked or noticed that I have a walk signal.
Both, drivers and pedestrians are very distracted.
Office of traffic safety grant money to fun increased patrol at school zones pre/ post school??
About time
They could pay one officers salary for a year ticketing crosswalk violations at McBean and Valencia Blvd
I have always wondered what the procedure was legally when it came to making a right hand turn with a pedestrian crossing. I always waited til they were half way out or up to half way in that I deemed safe.
Here is the law. From talking to officers, the general rule is that you don’t cause the pedestrian to be impacted by your turn. So, if they have passed you, you give them enough room in case they slow down, and if the are walking toward you, you don’t turn if you’ll be anywhere near them. Bottom-line, if an officer thinks you’ve rushed to beat the pedestrian or that you’ve turned too closely behind them, you’ll get cited
21950. (a) The driver of a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way to a pedestrian crossing the roadway within any marked crosswalk or within any unmarked crosswalk at an intersection, except as otherwise provided in this chapter. (b) The provisions of this section shall not relieve a pedestrian from the duty of using due care for his or her safety. No pedestrian shall suddenly leave a curb or other place of safety and walk or run into the path of a vehicle which is so close as to constitute an immediate hazard. No pedestrian shall unnecessarily stop or delay traffic while in a marked or unmarked crosswalk. (c) The provisions of subdivision (b) shall not relieve a driver of a vehicle from the duty of exercising due care for the safety of any pedestrian within any marked crosswalk or within any unmarked crosswalk at an intersection.
Hmm. Simple enough. I’ll just keep doing what I’ve been doing then.
While I appreciate the effort…why are we enforcing laws for only one selected day? Why not everyday? If we save one life it is worth any amount of money. Plus the fines would pay for the cost of enforcement.
I’d love to see deputies by Hart High. Day after day teen cross everywhere. If they do use a cross walk they just walk right in without pausing to look.
I blame the crossing guard at the corner of Newhall Ave and 13th street for teaching the children in that area they don’t need to stop. She walks out and stops traffic before the kids get to the cross walk. I’ve called the city about it several times over the last 4 years and it has never changed. She needs to be replaced.
I totally agree with you happened to me numerous times in front of Hart High where a kid just dashes out the street without looking because they don’t want to use the crosswalk since they live in those apartments across the street.
YES the crossing guard lady just walks out stops the traffic. If she hates to be a crossing guard she need to not do it anymore.
She is teaching all the children, teems and adults in that area that they are entitled and traffic should stop for them. She may be responsible for someone’s death someday.
We talked safety 24/7 with our son Wyatt. He had a green light a driver ran a late red-light and killed our son. We have a very large percentage of youth in this valley and our speed limits are out of control, there is no fault of my sons, he’s dead, just gone, because someone was in a hurry came around a corner a 45 plus miles an hour. We taught our son right, we talked about safety the mam that him never saw him, not one single skid mark. Just returning from the youth grove ceremony, no where we ever, ever imagined we would ever, ever be. Yes kids should always look both ways but we grown ups need to be careful, kids will be kids sometimes when we are young we think we will live forever, nothing will ever happen to us (we sometimes think when we are young) but drivers need to ne more careful. Again Wyatt didn’t do anything wrong and as drivers we need to look curb to curb when approaching a crosswalk. Although Wyatt wasn’t doing anything wrong, was not at fault we just all need to pay more attention when we get in our cars. Honestly we taught our children to never, ever j walk nut had Wyatt been killed in that fashion by a driver I’d still probably wonder why he wasn’t oaring attention. I feel it’s my responsibility to keep an eye out when I’m behind the wheel and to me that means looking ahead, watching the roads for people and animals for my safety and the safety of others. There have been so many pedestrians hit and probably quite a few unreported accidents when major injury or death doesn’t occur. I don’t know what all the answers are, sure wish I did, but I do believe that as drivers, as adults, we have an obligation to our youth, to our community to obey the rules and remember that a vehicle is a weapon when flying through red lights, through neighborhoods, crosswalks etc., God I miss my son, there are no words to describe how painful this loss is, I just hope we find a way as a community to do more to protect other parents from losing their own special loved one. The loss of a child, so sudden, unexpected, he wasn’t into drugs, nor drinking, nor off to war, nor in law enforcement (which he often said he was interested in), he was not sick he was just being a good boy on the way to the gym and just like that, he was taken from us and he’s gone, simply gone. My heart breaks for those who have walked in our shoes and my mind hopes there can be changes made to make accidents survivable.
I was behind a young driver today off Pamlico… never actually stopped for a stop sign …. and the person actually thought it was his right away cutting me off when I stopped at the stop sign and he kiiindaaa did lol!
When will the state pass a law to prohibit texting and driving?
Yes pedestrians have the right away but that doesn’t mean you’ll be seen. Its look both ways before crossing and be aware of your surroundings for your own safety.
Yeah how about we have the sherif that has been parked at the same spot for months on Newhall ranch to do other the try to get everyone’s speeds
The crossing area by the Newhall Metrolink station and the am express bus stop needs patrolling – many cars run lights there and a lot of narrow misses of passengers in the early mornings. Also Seco/Bouquet of course, and start ticketing all the adults on cell phones driving by school crosswalks.
Almost knocked by a Sheriff’s SUV while in the crosswalk before.
Just a quick squall in my ears.
Kris Carrion I hope they post up on Soledad!!????
I hope they patrol near La Mesa Junior High at dismissal time. While the majority of the students cross Via Princess at the crosswalk, many of them cross wherever they want at Via Princessa or on Gregory. They come from behind parked cars on Gregory and just dart into the street. Very, very often, parents are making illegal u-turns in the middle of Via Princessa to pick up students and have no problem stopping on Via Princessa to pick up a student. A terrible accident is going to happen here. I hope something is done before it does.
Will the officers be observing the law for themselves? Officer just died was not wearing a seatbelt.
It’s funny when I see people in market parking lots walk behind me as I back out or step off the curb right in front of me or another car as tho there is a steel barrier that will protest them.! They should never assume they are safe in cross walks for the same reason either.I’m very careful but they should be too.