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At this time last year, we had no idea what changes and challenges 2025 would have in store. What I did know, and what this year reaffirmed, is that whatever 2025 brought our way, we’d get through it together.
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The National Weather Service reports that the Santa Clarita Valley was drenched with nearly nine inches of rain from the atmospheric river that brought a soggy Christmas week to most of California.
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The city of Santa Clarita is seeking five artists to create artwork on five 60-inches by 60-inches canvases that will be featured above the Valencia Library Branch's children's area for two years, May 18, 2026 through May 23, 2028.
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During the 2025 Christmas Holiday Enforcement Period, California Highway Patrol officers were on duty across the state, responding not only to enforcement needs but also to significant winter weather impacts, including snow, flooding and mudslides.
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Bring passport applications and all required documents to the Passport Community Fair, 1-5:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 9 at the Old Town Newhall Library.
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The city of Santa Clarita has issued a traffic alert for Sand Canyon Road.
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Property Management Professionals will hold its grand opening and ribbon cutting 4-4:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 29 at 25124 Springfield Court #220, Valencia, CA 91355.
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The California Highway Patrol is highlighting new public safety laws passed during this year’s legislative session and signed by Governor Gavin Newsom that, unless otherwise stated, take effect Thursday, Jan. 1, 2026.
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Kaiser Permanente has awarded a $12,000 Community Health Grant to Bridge to Home to help address homelessness in the Santa Clarita Valley.
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Boys and girls Foothill League soccer teams have been on holiday schedule this past week, with some teams taking time off and others playing non-league matches. Consequently, league standings haven’t changed much.
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College of the Canyons women's basketball notched another mark in the win column, as the Cougars were able to stack a second straight road victory 54-46 at Oxnard College on Wednesday, Dec. 17.
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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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The Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's Station has issued the following traffic alerts: Due to heavy rains, the westbound right lane is closed on Soledad Canyon Road between Camp Plenty Road and Langside Avenue.
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Fostering Youth Independence’s recent Charlie Brown Holiday party was attended by dozens of local foster youth and their volunteer Allies.
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The National Weather Service as issued the following alerts for the Santa Clarita Valley. Flood Watch until Dec. 26, 4 p.m. PST, High Wind Warning until Dec. 25, 3 p.m. PST.
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Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger is urging residents to remain vigilant as a powerful storm system moves through Los Angeles County, bringing periods of heavy rain and rapidly changing conditions.
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Thirteen suspects were arrested, and more than $800,000 in stolen merchandise was recovered following a coordinated, multi-agency operation targeting an organized retail theft network operating across Northern California.
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The California State Transportation Agency today announced a new joint effort by two of its departments, the Department of Motor Vehicles and California Highway Patrol, to curb excessive speeding and prevent deadly crashes.
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The city of Santa Clarita invites the community to heat up the holiday season at the Holiday Spice Salsa Edition on Saturday, Dec. 27, at the Canyon Country Community Center, located at 18410 Sierra Highway Santa Clarita, CA 91351.
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1965 - Signal newspaper owner Scott Newhall shows up for a duel (of words) with rival Canyon Country newspaper publisher Art Evans, who no-shows and folds his paper soon after [story]
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As winter storms enter Los Angeles County, the Los Angeles County Department of Animal Care and Control urges pet owners to take necessary precautions in light of the significant storms expected to last for five days.
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Brayden Miner scored 31 points and Rylan Starr had 24 as The Master's University men's basketball team crushed Bethesda University 145-59 The MacArthur Center.
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Dr.Gene:
There is little doubt that “people of color” – and people of lower economic status are the most “unprepared” for a pandemic such as we are experiencing.
They are not the “target” that CVD19 is aimed at; in fact there is no “aiming” by a virus, unless it is used as a military weapon. Everything that is known at this time seems to lead to simple science: this is a pandemic that only the virus knows what it is aimed at.
And that is what Nature does. It seeks to have life grow and become. Just because Humans find it to be inconvenient (come on people, we have had plagues before – many times) doesn’t mean that we cannot survive, and after thrive from a pandemic virus like CVD19.
But it does mean that we can either be the herds of sheep that the virus will run through until it evolves out of its nastiness, or we can do something about it.
The trick in our “modern” society is just how do we tame it, or at least mitigate it.
While the current data (very new) suggests that we can survive this pandemic assault, there is very little that our human governments can do that will not thrash or completely disable our so-called-society.
The disease will run it’s course; after all, the virus is only doing what it must do – grow, spread, and infect. It’s a simple and minor fragment of life. It just happens to be ready and able to use us all as it’s growth and survival.
As it turns out, from our point of view it is an assault on our species and after that, our lives.
Like most of us, we thought that life was about sex, parenthood, kids, school, and then college/trade school/university and eventually adulthood for the kids from that life. We lived that life like it was free and available to us because most of us thought that was what should and would be.
We are being reminded that NOTHING is promised (pardon the imprimatur, but it is true) aside form religious texts. Science is making things pretty clear regarding CVD19.
Either scientific human-based results and protection from testing will limit the spread of
the virus, or it won’t.
Odds are, our society will spend the money, time and effort to tame it.
If not, then we will all learn a new reality; Our beliefs, our trust, and our certainty will just become another myth about our world.