Yearly Archives: 2016
Read more about the article Signal, Gazette join forces
This photo shows Signal management Russ Briley, Gary Sproule and Chuck Champion stand at The Signal's entrance with Doug and Jeannie Sutton of the Gazette after a business partnership was announced to the Signal's newsroom on Wednesday, June 8. Katharine Lotze/The Signal Signal management Russ Briley, Gary Sproule and Chuck Champion stand at The Signal's entrance with Doug and Jeannie Sutton of the Gazette after a business partnership was announced to the Signal's newsroom on Wednesday, June 8. Katharine Lotze/The Signal

Signal, Gazette join forces

Former newspaper rivals in three-year legal dispute come together to form new media publishing group Two media companies involved in a nearly three-year legal battle put down their swords and…

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Read more about the article TMC baseball eliminated from NAIA World Series
The Master's College starting pitcher Jason Karkenny delivers a pitch in the first inning of TMC's 9-7 loss to Sterling College of Kansas on Monday at the NAIA World Series in Lewiston, Idaho. The loss ended the Mustangs season. Photo by Mike Stetson/For The Signal

TMC baseball eliminated from NAIA World Series

Mustangs' season comes to an end in back-and-forth heartbreaker The Master’s College threw its biggest punches against Sterling College of Kansas in the 2016 Avista-NAIA Baseball World Series on Monday.…

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Read more about the article Valencia High graduate and Loyola Marymount junior J.D. Busfield was selected in the seventh round of the MLB First-Year Player Draft on Friday. Photo by John Shaffer/LMU Athletics
Karis Frankian won the national title in the 5000-meter run at the 36th Annual Women’s Outdoor Track & Field National Championships at Mickey Miller Blackwell Stadium in Gulf Shores, Alabama on Saturday, May 28. Courtesy photo TMC Sports Information

Valencia High graduate and Loyola Marymount junior J.D. Busfield was selected in the seventh round of the MLB First-Year Player Draft on Friday. Photo by John Shaffer/LMU Athletics

Karis Frankian became The Master’s College first women’s track & field athlete to earn an individual championship title when she finished first overall in the 5,000-meter final at the 36th…

Continue ReadingValencia High graduate and Loyola Marymount junior J.D. Busfield was selected in the seventh round of the MLB First-Year Player Draft on Friday. Photo by John Shaffer/LMU Athletics
Read more about the article Valencia grad Busfield taken in 7th round of MLB draft
Valencia High graduate J.D. Busfield was drafted by the Tampa Bay Rays last June during his junior year at Loyola Marymount University. Photo by John Shaffer/LMU Athletics

Valencia grad Busfield taken in 7th round of MLB draft

The then-Tampa Bay Devil Rays took a tall right-hander from the Santa Clarita Valley in the 16th round of the 2000 June Amateur Draft. It’s safe to say Hart High…

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Read more about the article Stan Cockerell – Vietnam War Veteran – Newhall Resident
Linda & Stan Cockerell & Willie McTear at the Charlie Company 50th Anniversary Reunion in Las Vegas last month. Courtesy photo.

Stan Cockerell – Vietnam War Veteran – Newhall Resident

As reported last week on Vietnam combat veteran Robert Good, when the 9th Infantry Division reactivated for combat in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta in the spring of 1966, Southern California was…

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Read more about the article Three killed in head-on crash on Highway 126
Three people - including a Los Angeles man and two Fillmore woman - were killed in a head-on crash on Highway 126 early Sunday. The names of the deceased were released Monday. Photo by Rick McClure/For The Signal

Three killed in head-on crash on Highway 126

The man and two women who were killed in a two-vehicle head-on traffic collision on Highway 126 last weekend were identified Monday by California Highway Patrol officials. Killed in the…

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Read more about the article War memorial approved by city council
Bill Reynolds examines updated drawings of the proposed warrior memorial as he stands at it's proposed location under the trees at the corner of Newhall and Market Street at veterans historical plaza in Newhall. Dan Watson/The Signal

War memorial approved by city council

The Santa Clarita City Council unanimously voted to approve the community-funded war memorial at the corner of Veterans Historical Plaza in Newhall Tuesday night. Six speakers and five comment cards…

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