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1932 - Robert Poore wins the greased pole climbing contest and $2.50 at Newhall's July 4th celebration [story]
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1932 - Robert Poore wins the greased pole climbing contest and $2.50 at Newhall's July 4th celebration [story]
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Celebrate the Fourth of July in Santa Clarita with a full day of festive events including a run, pancake breakfast, parade and fireworks.
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In an effort to prevent vehicle thefts or thefts from vehicles, remember the following simple safety tips.
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The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority annual Point-in Time count of residents experiencing homelessness revealed a 22.9% reduction in the level of homeless veterans.
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The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and the County’s Department of Economic Opportunity kicked off its award-winning Youth@Work program, announcing the availability of up to 10,000 paid employment opportunities for local county youth.
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The city of Santa Clarita’s The Big I Do event is returning on Valentine’s Day, 2025, with chances to win big.
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More than 17.7 million Californians now have a REAL ID, an increase of 137,929 from the previous month, according to California Department of Motor Vehicles data.
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Those who own rental properties or mobile home parks, it’s time to complete the Rent Registry 2024-25 registration.
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SCVEDC recently participated in two major investment conferences: SelectLA hosted by the Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation, as well as the SelectUSA Investment Summit in Washington D.C.
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State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond today applauded the passage of AB 1955, Support Academic Futures and Educators for Today’s Youth Act (SAFETY Act).
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The Los Angeles County Health Officer has issued an excessive heat warning as high temperatures have been forecast for the following areas:
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As the Fourth of July holiday approaches, accompanied by dangerously hot temperatures and excessive heat warnings in portions of Los Angeles County’s Fifth District, Supervisor Kathryn Barger is reminding residents to do their part to lessen the threat of wildfires. She issued the following statement today:
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1925 - By letter, Wyatt Earp beseeches his friend William S. Hart to portray him in a movie, to correct the "lies about me." Hart never did. [story]
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With an excessive heat warning in effect this week, the city of Santa Clarita strongly urges residents to prioritize heat safety and preparedness during the Fourth of July Parade and the holiday weekend.
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California State Sen. Scott Wilk (R-Santa Clarita) has announced his bill to make wildfire settlement payments tax-free cleared its first hurdle in the Assembly, passing out of the Committee on Revenue and Taxation.
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Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) recently presented deputies from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department with the highly esteemed MADD Award. This award recognizes their unwavering commitment to road safety and dedication to preventing the devastating consequences of drunk driving.
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The First Presbyterian Church of Newhall is hosting an eight-week grief and loss recovery group, scheduled to run 2-3:30 p.m. on eight consecutive Sundays, Sept. 15 through Nov. 3.
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The California Department of Motor Vehicles has introduced a new online case management system that provides faster response times. The modern digital system provides drivers, as well as their attorneys, with a more convenient way to interact with the Driver Safety office at the DMV.
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The city of Santa Clarita has issued a traffic alert for residents traveling to Central Park, 27150 Bouquet Canyon Road, Santa Clarita, CA 91350.
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As an excessive heat warning descends upon portions of North County this week, including the Santa Clarita Valley, Los Angeles County officials remind SCV residents of county resources that bring free or low-cost heat relief.
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The Santa Clarita Valley opera company, Mission Opera opens its seventh Season Oct. 26-27 with "Cold Sassy Tree" by Carlisle Floyd, an American opera in English, based on the 1989 historical American novel by Olive Ann Burns.
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Thanks to the cooperation and diligence of Santa Clarita Valley area residents and local agricultural officials, the California Department of Food and Agriculture, working in coordination with the United States Department of Agriculture and the Los Angeles County Agricultural Commissioner, has declared an end to the Tau fruit fly quarantine following the eradication of the invasive pest.
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The Hello Auto Group has announced its third annual Back-to-School Backpack Drive. This year, the Hello Auto Group will partner with three Santa Clarita Valley school districts, Sulphur Springs Union School District, Newhall School District and Castaic Union School District, to support students preparing for the upcoming school year.
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The Regal Summer Movie Express is underway offering family movies for $1 a ticket now through Aug. 7.
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I drove through Calabasas last weekend and noticed that their medians are being watered by recycled water. Is this something Santa Clarita is looking into? Is the infrastructure there for something like that?
The trees in the median need to be watered. Recycled water should be used for this purpose.
The trees are being watered. SCV sent a newsletter a few weeks ago explaining everything.
I know, but everything else is dead in the medians, hopefully they don’t also kill off our beautiful mature trees.
Unfortunately private residents are only able to water trees by hand held bucket according to ordinance 42. Seems silly especially if you have s large property with many large mature trees.
…but the sprinklers at Meadows park were on at 9:39 am Saturday morning…
I noticed that the grass outside of city hall is dead which means they are adhering to the new policy BUT the courthouse/sheriff lawn just across the street is lush and green!!! They have not cut back on watering!
Beth when I was working for the parks system, the plans are there to convert Central Park to reclaimed. But the costs are insane.. The system needs to be completely changed over. And the high salt content really actually hurts the landscape over time and raises the alkali in the soil to render eventually sterile
There should be no water usage period! If we can’t water lawns then city should do desert landscaping. Our leaders should be voted out. The letter they sent was horrible justifying the water usage. Go with cactus! Do what Arizona and New Mexico do, we are in a drought people. There is no excuse!
sorry but if i wanted cactus i would move to the desert!!
You are living in a desert.
Duh
The scv isn’t desert. My point was u don’t see desert landscaping here and if I wanted that I would move to Arizona or lancaster
Aren’t they taking out the paved median’s and putting in trees that need watering. ..mind boggling. ..that is what I saw :(
I am happy about the cuts the city and many residents have made but when it comes to schools, shopping centers and large complexes it’s been a straight slap in the face. So much run off from many of these places we can collect with buckets in the gutter. It’s the idea of these places that no enforcement will be in the middle of the night and who will catch them.
The medians down San Fernando have JUST BEEN PLANTED! What were they thinking? Ugly medians are ok with me if we can just keep some green spaces in our parks.
Those medians were a bad idea , firetrucks use that road so much , especially during rush hour on the freeways , before those were put in they had no problems getting thru but last week i saw that they were upset because they had no outlet to get thru the traffic , they were very frustrated ,
I couldn’t agree more. At the very least this could have waited but honestly it could have been completely eliminated.
Yesterday morning the grass along the sidewalk alongside the eastbound Newhall Ranch road going up to Golden Valley near the new home construction was being watered with sprinklers flooding the adjacent sidewalks!
En donde vivo no les importa si hay agua o no algunos dejan la llave de agua abierta bien poquito todo el tiempo para regar el pasto,es la única casa con el pasto verde,otras que lavan la calle en pleno calor,no saben cuidar el único líquido que nos ayuda a vivir sin agua no hay vida.
Que triste…
Finally!! Way to finally figure it out santa clarita. Too busy fining the citizens but flooding the medians.
And these were paved and planted during the drought…never mind the wasted furl driving 1/2 mile to make a turn…
Who decides this stuff.?
El Nino should fix everything in a few months. Everyone is panicking. One of SCV’s biggest attractions is their clean, cut, and landscaped streets. Nothing says “we care about things” more than the entrance to a neighborhood. At the very least, keep watering the foliage. Grass should stay where it’s at, even if it’s not watered. It will all come back after December.
I have been forced to water my yard by hand since I can only 2 days a week and got a notice I was watering on wrong days, however I water more by hand than my sprinklers did! Lol
No cactus!!! I am from AZ and Palmdale is lot far. We don’t need cactus lol
Really,,,I feel they can still water without the extreme “woo is me” we are abiding by the water rules and we are not killing our yards, just a little brown. Why does everyone have to jump on the “waaaaaaa” band wagon, just conserve and deal with it!
Reclaimed water has already been in effect in Lancaster for parks and such. The Lancaster waste water facility discharges tons and tons of it’s reclaimed water to natural water sources ie Apollo park. SCV also has a large waste water facility off the old road. Go and check it out. I believe these facilities have annual field trips. Lancaster had theirs a few months ago. They give you a lot of information on how the reclaimed water is processed.
I just don’t get , we’re in a horrible time right now , mandatory water rationing , it’s great , but why is there sooooo many hundreds of homes and new buildings going up , and i heard of a new mini mall , . but WHERE is all that water going to come from , we’re all doing our part to the best of our ability , but with all the building going on , i don’t see a change coming for the better , the building needs to stop , too much light and soon we see no stars , just how i feel , and it makes me sad ,
What about planting native California plants? Plants and scrubs that were here before we even got here? They are beautiful too. They’ve been through this drought before and survived.
Call me crazy but we live in a desert I’m for desert landscaping myself.
Apparently Walmart and Toys R Us didn’t get the memo. We went into the store yesterday about 1, can back to our truck approximately an hour later and they were still watering the planters in the parking lot.
Time to go to Desertscapes, we (former Californians) in Arizona use. Multi-colored gravel and desert or native plants, it’s actually very nice. Cities like Las Vegas and Phoenix are using it too and the grass is mainly just in the parks. Who wants to mow it anyway?
I was driving home @ 2 am last week and most of the medians on via princesses, whites canyon and others are being watered with plenty of over spray and streams of water running down the street. I am doing my part by stopping watering my lawn completely and the city can not do the same? It irritates me to know I’m doing my part, but that is being cancelled out by the city.
Nobody said you have to be a martyr and let your lawn die! We are saving water inside so we can water plants and lawn just a little. Enough to keep it alive until fall and hopefully rain. Short showers,rinsing dishes in a bowl, paper plates, and giving dirty water to plants, using car wash coupons,etc. This too will pass. Just call the city and tell where you see waste.
You are correct, but I can replace my lawn in-expensively in the fall. No point in watering the few days that they allow, when my lawn will still die. I still water plants and tree’s with dirty water, all I was saying is there is waste all over the city and they can’t do their part. They pay a landscape company with my tax $’s and they can pay that same landscape company to adjust the waste, and to top it off they tell me if i am over watering they are going to fine me?
artificial grass bad for the environment
PLEASE DEEP WATER YOUR TREES AND ESPECIALLY IN THOSE IN YOUR PARKWAY THAT THE CITY PLANTED! I see many that are looking sick. Trees are an important part of our environment and air quality in this city.
Maybe we should stop allowing water to be bottled here in Cali.
The drought is temporary this happens every so often, relax
Huge run off on Newhall Ranch Road just past the Home Depot near corner of Rye Canyon it’s from the center median
What about the river crossing on Soledad westbound near the Santa Clarita Lanes this morning?
Finally! They should all be planted with drought tolerant plants ALL the time.
It looks great! Might as well embrace the desert we live in.
Great, this town is going to start looking like Palmdale.
What about Bridgeport? Cut their water off!!!!
Jenny Jill Castruita Striplin
Yes, I saw the grass is now brown on Stevenson Ranch Pk way, but also saw that new plants were being planted.
Hundreds of dollars were added to our property tax bill to pay for grass,plants,trees,and sprinklers in the medians.Can we get a refund?
What about the shrubs and trees that just got planted along the medians going towards canyon country? On Soledad?
Are those drought tolerant trees and plants?