Dark clouds loom over the Santa Clarita Valley

Katharine Lotze
March 22, 2017
8:45 pm

Katharine Lotze

Katharine Lotze is a photojournalist and columnist at the Signal, and can be found photographing daily life in Santa Clarita, or writing personal essays about her own daily life.

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