This week’s calendar 01/6 – 1/19/19
Recurring Events Every Sunday 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Come out and try one of the fastest growing sports in Santa Clarita. Dragon boating has over 2,000 years of…
Find Your Winter Bliss
Want to channel your Winter Olympian? Have you always wanted to ride a dogsled? Eager to perfect your double axel or triple salchow like skaters Kristi Yamaguchi or Evan Lysacek?…
PSST: Here’s a couple of shortcuts, don’t tell anybody
Thanksgiving weekend. Traffic jams at Castaic, amounting to a “nightmare” later addressed by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. On Dec. 6, the day after county supervisors vote in…
Looking ahead in SCV 2019 real estate market
By Ray “The Realtor” Kutylo Signal Contributing Writer This past year, we had a slowdown in the real estate market in the Santa Clarita Valley, especially in the higher home…
Santa Clarita City Hall is located on the 23900 block of Valencia Blvd. File photo
City Council to discuss termination of landscape, lighting district processes and conduct committee appointments
After adjourning for the holidays, the City Council is set to reconvene Tuesday to conduct committee appointments and discuss topics such as the termination of the landscape and lighting district…
War coming to Canyon Santa Clarita Jan. 11
By Stephen K. Peeples Signal Contributing Writer It may be hard to imagine now, but in the late 1960s, multi-ethnic, multi-racial bands like War, who are set to capture fans…
Doug Minnick, left, and Scott Page-Pagter display their wines, Hoi Polloi Winery and Pagter Brothers Winery at the Double Trouble Wine Room in Newhall on Friday, December 14, 2018. Dan Watson/The Signal
Pagter Brothers add to SCV wine scene in Newhall
By Taylor Villanueva Signal Staff Writer When brothers Gib Pagter and Scott Page-Pagter noticed a need for more wineries in the Santa Clarita Valley, Pagter Brothers Winery was born. Gib…
Princeton softball players Haley Hineman, Keeley Walsh, and Adrienne Chang returned to their high school field at West Ranch High School. Cory Rubin/The Signal
West Ranch softball to Princeton connection
Princeton University softball head coach Lisa Van Ackeren must like what she’s seen from the West Ranch softball program. For the third time in six years, a West Ranch softball…
Message from the City Manager: Become CERT-ified and help protect your community
By Ken Striplin City Manager Santa Clarita has been hailed as one of the safest cities in the nation. This is thanks to our top notch partnerships with Los Angeles…
A couple walks their dog on the path near McBean Parkway and Magic Mountain Parkway in Valencia on Wednesday morning. Dan Watson/The Signal
The paths to enjoy nature in the SCV
By Taylor Villanueva Signal Staff Writer Throughout the Santa Clarita Valley is a system of pedestrian paths that has grown over the years. These paths are the work of city…
Cincinnati Reds prospect and Stevenson Ranch native Hunter Greene fields questions from youth baseball players at the Hunter Greene Baseball Fest at the MLB Youth Academy in Compton on Sunday. Haley Sawyer/The Signal
Stevenson Ranch native gives back at Hunter Greene Baseball Fest
COMPTON — Standing in the middle of a baseball field at the MLB Youth Academy, a small group of preteen baseball players had a lot of questions for Cincinnati Reds…
Civic engagement coordinator Leon Youngblood talks with Jennifer Byer, left, and Susan McKenzie as they ask about potential locations for vote centers in Santa Clarita. Ryan Mancini/The Signal
Voters receive information about vote centers, provide suggestions to potential locations
With the 2020 election not far off, Santa Clarita voters shared their thoughts on where vote centers should reside during a meeting held by Black Women for Wellness at the Newhall Community Center on Sunday.
Our Lady of Perpetual Health Italian Club presented their annual La Befana Celebration, an Italian tradition celebrating Christmas and the feast of the epiphany and the Italian Santa Claus. Cory Rubin/The Signal
Our Lady of Perpetual Help celebrates La Befana to close out Christmas season
In a celebration of the Epiphany, or Three Kings Day, the Italian Catholic Club of Santa Clarita Valley and members of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church in Newhall signaled the traditional end of the 12 days of Christmas with a goodbye to the holiday season with their fifth La Befana on Sunday.
Hill speaks with constituents about government shutdown at town hall
In her first town hall of 2019, Rep. Katie Hill took questions from constituents about the government shutdown in Palmdale on Sunday.
Los Angels County firefighters responded to an attic fire on the 28800 block of Oak Springs Canyon Road in Canyon Country Sunday afternoon. No injuries were reported. Cory Rubin/The Signal
Fire crews respond to Canyon Country attic fire
Firefighters responded to a call placed at 2:51 p.m. on Sunday about a house fire on Oak Spring Canyon Road in Canyon Country.
LOV Movement founder Jordan Minns stands next to one of the tanks that are used to hold clean water in Kenya's Giotto Slum. Antony Njoroge
Local charity LOV Movement helps create sustainable change in Skid Row and Africa
Since graduating from UCLA in 2017 with a degree in history, Minns has split his time between mixed martial arts training and running his charity, LOV Movement, which he started in January 2018. The 23-year-old said that LOV Movement was born out of his history of helping the homeless, his own ideas of how to better run a nonprofit and the decision to take action.
Letters to the Editor
Richard Myers | Are We Stuck with Baker for 2019?
Regarding Brian Baker’s Jan. 1 column, “Horton Column Illustrates ‘TDS,’” I want to say how sad I am to realize I will probably have to endure more of this name…
Letters to the Editor
Duane Mooring | A Wall Is an Admission of Failure
In his column on Jan. 1, Brian Baker attempted to blame the government shutdown over border wall funding on Dem/socialists. He blames Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) for the stalemate. I…
David Hegg is senior pastor of Grace Baptist Church and a Santa Clarita resident. "Ethically Speaking" runs Saturdays in The Signal.
David Hegg | The Impacts of Society’s Denial of Self-Denial
By David Hegg Among ancients the greatest honor was given to those who, seeing the greater good of the greater number, chose valiantly to deny themselves certain rights and pleasures…
