Read more about the article Montgomery prepping for run at Cubs starting rotation
Chicago Cubs relief pitcher Mike Montgomery pitches during the seventh inning of Game 3 of the World Series against the Cleveland Indians in Chicago. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Montgomery prepping for run at Cubs starting rotation

The Major League Baseball winter meetings in Maryland came and went this week, and a player who’d already been traded three times in his career stayed put. Hart High graduate…

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Read more about the article SCCS girls basketball keeps trending upward
Santa Clarita Christian’s Payton Schwesinger drives toward the basket during Wednesday’s practice. Katharine Lotze/The Signal

SCCS girls basketball keeps trending upward

Santa Clarita Christian girls basketball has been on an upward slope. Three years ago, coach Dennis Schwesinger started Cardinals girls basketball back up after the program had taken a short…

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Read more about the article SCV Water Suppliers: ‘Drought fatigue’ setting in
A very green green stands in stark contrast to the brown grass at Robinson Ranch Golf Club in Canyon Country in Oct. 2014. KATHARINE LOTZE/Signal.

SCV Water Suppliers: ‘Drought fatigue’ setting in

The weather is finally changing in the Santa Clarita Valley, and much of the focus has shifted away from California’s record-setting drought. But don’t let that fool you. Last year…

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Read more about the article Supervisors declare homelessness a state of emergency
Security member Julian Murillo, center, calls for another client to be searched as men wait to be admitted to the Santa Clarita homeless shelter. Dan Watson/Signal

Supervisors declare homelessness a state of emergency

Supervisor Kathryn Barger, now representing Los Angeles County District 5 and the Santa Clarita Valley, joined Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas Wednesday in urging the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to…

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What’s next for undocumented students protected by DACA in a post-election world?

When the news of Donald Trump’s presidential election reached 20-year-old College of the Canyons student Carlos, a pseudonym given to the student to protect his identity, he decided to change…

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Read more about the article Local injured vet receives $25,000 of good cheer
Jose Montenegro, the beneficiary, is pictured at left, with his wife Karin, daughter Katherine, and Farmers Insurance Agent and Fighting for Families founder Patrick Lufrano.

Local injured vet receives $25,000 of good cheer

A local injured veteran saw his holiday season brightened Thursday when a charitable group presented him and his family with a check for $25,000. Jose Montenegro, a married father of…

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Read more about the article Hughes: Ideal surgery a ‘Christmas miracle’
Paul and Amy Hughes flank their daughter Cheyenne, 15, in a photo. Photo courtesy Courtney Tole, CLTG Photography

Hughes: Ideal surgery a ‘Christmas miracle’

“We got our Christmas miracle.” Paul Hughes finally took a breath. “The doctors are all smiles and just as shocked as we are with everything,” the man said. His teenage…

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Read more about the article Garbage fire snuffed out at busy intersection
Firefighter pokes at a dumped pile of burning garbage as others apply water. Photo by Austin Dave, The Signal.

Garbage fire snuffed out at busy intersection

It was a toxic, smelly, smoky, burning pile of garbage at a busy Santa Clarita Valley intersection, but the firefighters of Fire Station #107 stood upwind and snuffed it out…

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Read more about the article Two injured after car hits stalled truck on Highway 14
A CHP officer, photographed through a window, directs traffic onto the shoulder of the HOV lane around a crash on Highway 14 on Thursday. Katharine Lotze/Signal

Two injured after car hits stalled truck on Highway 14

At least two people were injured, one of them seriously and rushed to the hospital, Thursday after a car ran into the back of a parked truck on Highway 14…

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Read more about the article 11 Little Known Facts That Kill Revenue Growth:  Hope, Prayer and Bravado Don’t Work Anymore
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11 Little Known Facts That Kill Revenue Growth: Hope, Prayer and Bravado Don’t Work Anymore

This is the time of year when companies complete their business planning for the year ahead. In a few short weeks, the projections will be completed and the numbers laid…

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Read more about the article Santa Clarita Christian High School Choir performs at Disneyland’s Candlelight Ceremony
Santa Clarita Christian High School Choir was one of seven schools chosen to sing at Disneyland’s Candlelight Ceremony on Sunday. Photo courtesy of Darcy Brown.

Santa Clarita Christian High School Choir performs at Disneyland’s Candlelight Ceremony

Santa Clarita Christian School’s (SCCS) High School Choir was one of seven school choirs chosen to take part and sing in Disneyland’s annual Candlelight Ceremony and Processional Sunday night. The…

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Read more about the article Peachland Elementary Schools new facilities, renovations
Peachland Elementary School students help governing board president Sue Solomon cut the ribbon in celebration of the school's new modular classrooms on Wednesday. Katharine Lotze/Signal

Peachland Elementary Schools new facilities, renovations

Students at Peachland Elementary School now have eight new classroom buildings to learn, study and play. The school unveiled the second phase of its renovation project to the public Wednesday…

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