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2014 - Towsley Canyon Loop Trail named for naturalist Don Mullally [ story]
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The William S. Hart Union High School District Governing Board approved the appointment of Jon Carrino as the new Assistant Superintendent of Business Services.
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NAACP Santa Clarita will hold the Santa Clarita Masquerade Ball, a fundraising Gala at California Institute of the Arts.
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On Sept. 26 Princess Cruises, headquartered in Valencia, celebrated a major construction milestone of its second Sphere-Class vessel, Star Princess, with the traditional maritime float out ceremony at the Fincantieri Shipyard in Monfalcone, Italy.
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The Boys & Girls Club of Santa Clarita Valley has received a $10,000 donation from the Valencia Invitational Baseball League.
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All For Kids is seeking foster families and now offers two virtual ways for individuals or couples to learn how to help children in foster care while reunifying with birth families or how to provide legal permanency by adoption.
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California State Sen. Scott Wilk (R-Santa Clarita) has announced his bill to help expand access to low- and no-cost spay/neuter services, a much-needed first step in relieving California’s animal shelter overcrowding crisis, was signed by California Governor Gavin Newsom.
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Prepare for a ghoulishly delightful time at the Newhall Family Theatre of the Performing Arts as the Raising the Curtain Foundation presents the Bob Baker Marionettes' "Hallowe’en Spooktacular", Saturday, Oct. 19 at 11 a.m. at 24607 Walnut St., Newhall, CA 91321.
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Santa Clarita Artists Association presents "Dark, Odd, & Mysterious", a bizarre and twisted art show bringing strange and curious local art to Old Town Newhall with a reception Saturday, Oct. 5, 5-8 p.m. at 22508 6th St., Newhall, CA 91321.
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One of the most beloved and meaningful parks in our community is about to expand, offering some exciting new amenities to our residents.
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Circle of Hope Cancer Support Center will host the Seas the Day Afternoon Tea Saturday, Oct. 19 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. at Bella Vida in the Santa Clarita Valley Senior Center, 27180 Golden Valley Road, Santa Clarita, CA 91351.
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With one group of Mustangs cross-country athletes having already competed on Friday night, Sept. 20, at the Larry Young Classic in Columbia, Mo. (where the men and the women both won the team titles), a second group of The Master's University men's and women's cross-country teams raced against top competition at the UC Riverside Invitational on Saturday, Sept. 21, in Riverside, Calif.
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1876 - California oil industry born as CSO No. 4 in Pico Canyon becomes state's first commercially productive oil well [ story]
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The city of Santa Clarita is excited to announce the start of construction for the upgrades and enhancements to Old Orchard Park in Valencia.
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The Canyon Theatre Guild has announced two shows for the upcoming fall season, "Things My Mother Taught Me" and "Southern Fried Nuptials".
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The Los Angeles County Assessor’s Office has been honored with the 2024 Distinguished Assessment Jurisdiction Award by the International Association of Assessment Officers, the preeminent global organization that is the standard bearer for assessment administration and property tax policy.
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Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Missing Persons Unit is asking for the public’s help locating an at-risk missing person.
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The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health cautions residents who are planning to visit the below Los Angeles County beaches to avoid swimming, surfing, and playing in ocean waters:
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A hearing in Los Angeles Superior Court for Christopher Hubbart, known as the "Pillowcase Rapist," scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 1 at the Hollywood Courthouse, will not be relocated to the Antelope Valley.
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Santa Clarita Valley Water Agency will be holding a special board meeting Tuesday, Oct. 1. The special meeting will start at 5:45 p.m. at the Santa Clarita Valley Water Agency Administration Building.
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California State University, Northridge, is home to the International Guitar Research Archives, one of the largest guitar-related archives in the world.
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The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is investigating a new case of locally acquired dengue in a resident of Panorama City.
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The Valencia High School Marching Band & Color Guard is pleased to announce RAGNAROK, a Western Band Association SoCal Marching Band Clinic taking place on Oct. 5, at 2:30 p.m. in Santa Clarita.
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1970 - Lagasse family helps save Mentryville buildings as Newhall and Malibu brush fires erupt & join into worst fire in SoCal history. Twelve fires over 10 days burn 525,000 acres, kill 13 people and destroy approx. 1,500 structures. [ story]
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We must show our concerns to these blind people or this HSR will go through!!! It’s time
Gov. Brown to take care of our water shortage instead of billions of dollars on a useless the HSR wanting to leave a so called Legacy under his terms of Govenor. Please please support AGAINST HSR by going to any and all meetings!! Thank you
While our reservoirs go empty and our school funds go into the red, the State seems to want to plow blindly forward, committing $68 billion for the project, money we don’t have to spend.
There are so many problems with this project it is hard to know where to start.
Security- Does anyone think there will be any less security on a 200 mile and hour train, than on boarding at an airport? Consider a train wreck at 200 miles per hour with 100 or more passengers. Along with stops far between, who is going to pay to ride this albatross and pay again to get to where they need to go?
Natural environment- There are problems with disturbing our aqua-firs when tunneling, but the state says they will fix any problems by piping in water from somewhere else. The Angeles National Forest is just getting back on its feet after the 2009 Station Fire burned from Los Angeles, to Sunland to Acton, a total of 251 square miles. Our forest friends need a rest after an arsonist burned their homes, and many of ours. They don’t need us blasting through the mountains from here to there. Maybe Gov. Brown hopes to discover gold in them thar hills?
The proposed tunnel which won’t bother anyone will go above ground, then tunnel, above ground, then tunnel repetitively from from Palmdale to Burbank. Did you know there is a high level of sound off a high speed train coming out of a tunnel? There is noise from wheels on steel at 200 mph, the high pitched noise from the moving electrical connection above the train, and there is a blast as the train leaves the tunnel you might liken to popping the cork on a bottle of champagne only much, much louder.
After you add time and cost overruns, unseen security costs, construction companies which do not have the skills and experience to build the HSR, this has become the High Speed Rail no one wanted, but got built anyway.
I am not worried about the safety of the high speed train; Europe and Asia have shown the way on the matter of safety. But has anyone considered that we could be spending the same dollars to begin building a pipeline to bring Columbia River waters to California? Which is more important?!
Well, without meaning to suggest that high-speed rail makes sense (it doesn’t), does it really make sense to spend even more money to bring Columbia River water here? We live in a desert. We import water and create English gardens with manicured grass lawns to fool would-be home buyers … but we live in a desert. Why would we pay to bring the water to us? Wouldn’t it make more sense for us to move to where the water is?
Of course, we already bring nearly all of our water in Southern California from up north or from the Colorado…all designed to make the desert bloom…and our lawns, too. THAT decision was made decades ago…along with the decision to take advantage of the state’s abundant sunshine to turn California into a major food supplier to the nation and the world. In short, IMNOHO we need to stabilize California’s sources of water…and that should be higher priority that building a high speed train.
Hey Leon,
Good point on moving water vs. moving people. Problem is, the people are already here. And they like it here. Just like you do. So they aren’t looking to be forcibly relocated to British Columbia (the nearest place where there is actually too much water).
Parsons (the engineering firm) with help from others put together a plan back in the 1950s-1960s to bring water all the way from BC down to Southern California (its’ a fascinating idea, and plans were drawn!). Other folks (really big dreamers) wanted to bring Arctic ice bergs down here for drinking water.
And guess what? No one wanted to spend the money. Probably because the idea of crossing multiple states and a national border was near impossible back then. Toss in the cost (and who would pay it) and it was considered as looney as putting a man on the Moon.
Guess what? We couldn’t pay the price for a new Lunar Expedition now if we wanted to. Even if the Moon was made of ice and we could drop chunks into the ocean with pinpoint accuracy.
$68 Billion is a drop in the bucket for a major California state project (in today’s dollars). It makes no sense to push for a Dizzyland People Mover that no one will use. It’s only possible benefit is for the small and poor counties/cities that have jumped on the band wagon for a few pennies of local cash.
A true cost-benefit analysis of this project would end it with a resounding crash. Spending the money to make major drought mitigation projects a reality won’t fix the weather. But it just might give us the time to find out if we all have to move back to Illinois in the nest 25 years or so.