Read more about the article Nerf on the turf: Garage Nerfer’s League darts into park
Participants J.D. Barlow, 12, left, and Thomas Konrad, 11, duck behind an inflatable Nerf Bunker during a "Nerf War" held at Fair Oaks Park in Canyon Country on Saturday, 032622. Dan Watson/The Signal

Nerf on the turf: Garage Nerfer’s League darts into park

Two friends bored in a garage with a passion for toy gun blasters. Nerf-ing can go wrong, right?  After Canyon Country residents Jake Groves, 15, and Taylor Sanches, 16, put…

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Read more about the article NAACP honors students with scholarships, holds awards ceremony
The student recipients of the Future Leaders Scholarship hold their checks and certificates while NAACP President Valerie Bradford, right, speaks to them during the NAACP Santa Clarita Scholarship Award Reception at the Dr. Dianne Van Hook University Center at COC in Santa Clarita, Calif., on Saturday, March 26, 2022. Chris Torres/The Signal

NAACP honors students with scholarships, holds awards ceremony

In her freshman year at University of California, Los Angeles, Cherise Moore said her math professor told her to major in something “like the rest of your kind’ after receiving…

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Read more about the article David Hegg | Seeking Ethical Intimacy
David Hegg is senior pastor of Grace Baptist Church and a Santa Clarita resident. "Ethically Speaking" runs Saturdays in The Signal.

David Hegg | Seeking Ethical Intimacy

Some clever scholar somewhere first gave the world this brilliant assessment of the motivations behind sexual courtship. “Girls play at sex to get love, while boys play at love to…

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Read more about the article Girl arrested on suspicion of stabbing father
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Girl arrested on suspicion of stabbing father

Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station deputies responded to a stabbing in Canyon Country Saturday afternoon after a father and daughter got into an altercation.  The incident was reported to have…

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Read more about the article COC hosts 2022 Women’s Conference
Dr. Dianne G. Van Hook, College of the Canyons Chancellor, right, joins the panel of speakers on stage as they take questions from the audience during the 2022 College of the Canyons Omen's Conference held at the Dr. Dianne G. Van Hook University Center on the Valencia campus of College of the Canyons on Saturday, 032622. Dan Watson/The Signal

COC hosts 2022 Women’s Conference

Dianne Van Hook said 95% of the fears in our heads never happen.  Van Hook, chancellor of College of the Canyons, said historically, women wait to be asked, so it’s…

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COC hosts accreditation team visit; final report expected by July

News release  College of the Canyons virtually hosted a visiting team from the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges, which marked the final step in a two-year-long self-study and…

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