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The Time Ranger

The Time Ranger | Our Tentative Connection to Charles Manson 

May 24, 2025 12:21 am

Warning to you saddlepals right up front. Don’t turn your back this morning on one particular varmint we’ll be visiting on today’s trail ride through Santa Clarita history. We’re going

John Boston

John Boston | Let’s Punch the Colorado Rockies in the Tummy…

May 23, 2025 10:04 am

I shan’t shed a tear over the Colorado Rockies 21-0 loss recently to San Diego. After all. The Padres were on a sugar high from getting a new pope. It’s

The Time Ranger

The Time Ranger | When Placerita Canyon Was a — Church??? 

May 17, 2025 12:27 am

So it was 40 years ago when we had one of the most memorable Santa Clarita Valley Dodger nights in history. A local girls high school softball pitcher faced the

John Boston

John Boston | No Way That’s Me on My Cal Driver’s License

May 16, 2025 5:01 am

DEAR STEVE GORDON, DIRECTOR, CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES — I place my 10 little adept digits to keyboard this fine May morn, Steve, with good news and, alas, bad

The Time Ranger

The Time Ranger | Hay Shysters, May Storms & Slim Pickens  

May 10, 2025 1:36 am

Well. We could all use a little more beauty sleep. But nothing invigorates the soul like a ride into yesteryear on a noble steed.  Or, you could settle for a

John Boston

John Boston | In Defense of a Guy Liking a Tiny Dancer

May 9, 2025 5:16 am

Normally, being a male suppressor, or, as we used to call ourselves, “a guy,” I would not discuss belly dancing in public, certainly not with a woman, certainly not with

The Time Ranger

Time Ranger | The Great SCV Swallow Suicide of 1955 

May 3, 2025 1:07 am

Happy first weekend in May, dear friends, neighbors, green newbies, grizzled vets and addendum saddlepals. On today’s ride through Santa Clarita history, we’ve got presidents and some of the weirdest

John Boston

John Boston | When Once Upon a Time I Was 13 …

May 2, 2025 7:43 am

My godson’s son’s birthday was last week. Riley turned 13 and those with kids know that years shrink to minutes when nostalgia raises its weepy head. My own daughter, The

The Time Ranger

The Time Ranger | Test Tube Babies & The Horse Theft Detail 

April 26, 2025 1:56 am

Wakey-wakey, you SCV bunk-huggers. We’ve got thousands of trail riders to roust from the bunks. Let’s get moving so we’re all in the saddle by at least June.  This morning,

John Boston

John Boston | Henry ‘Hold the’ Mayo Hospital? Please Marry Me!

April 25, 2025 5:54 am

DEAR KEVIN A. KLOCKENGA, CEO & MOST HIGH HOLY MUCKY-MUCK CEO OF HENRY MAYO NEWHALL HOSPITAL — First, Kevin, phew. I wish The Signal paid me by the word. After

The Time Ranger

The Time Ranger | The Very First Thing the Hart District Did 

April 19, 2025 2:16 am

Top of a fabulous 2025 April morning, o’ grizzled local old-timers and soft-handed newbie Yuppies alike. Sunrise is almost here. You know what that means: Time traveling.  Alas, with the

John Boston

John Boston | Finally. Common Sense on SCV’s Water Issues.

April 18, 2025 4:39 am

DEAR MR. SANTA CLARITA VALLEY — I place digits to laptop to protest the current sorry state of local Santa Clarita Valley water, how it’s being improperly managed and often

The Time Ranger

The Time Ranger | Kee-ripes! SCV Cavemen & SNOW in April!? 

April 12, 2025 1:27 am

Surely hope you are all well rested from your Saturday night bacchanals. You’re going to have to focus on this morning’s trail ride through local history.  We’re going to have

John Boston

John Boston | Castaic Dog Catcher Stops Trump’s Orders

April 11, 2025 5:31 am

JOHN BOSTON NATIONAL NEWS SERVICES — In a major upheaval of the three branches of federal government, a lone dog catcher in Santa Clarita, a yuppie enclave on the outskirts

The Time Ranger

The Time Ranger | LABC Switches to The Master’s in a Blink… 

April 5, 2025 8:06 am

We’ve an entire passel of adventures ahead in one of the most historically significant spots in America — the Santa Clarita Valley right under our very boots.  Shall we get

John Boston

John Boston | Earth’s Strongest Man Cannot Open a Tiny Gatorade

April 4, 2025 5:58 am

So. I  had an embarrassing moment the other day. I was lunching at Whole Foods, a dangerous proposition in itself. Sometimes, the buffet is a psychedelic experience. Not that I’ve

The Time Ranger

The Time Ranger | Lots of Famous SCV Horses, Including George Patton’s  

March 29, 2025 1:12 am

Trust you saddlepals are having a wonderful Saturday morning.  Don’t mean to interrupt any of your private thoughts or prayers. Just when you’re amenable, we’ve a most exciting trek through

John Boston

John Boston | The Tossing of AYSO Trophies Into a Dumpster

March 28, 2025 5:23 am

Funny how much I’ve been thinking about my dad lately. I used to keep my trophies at his acreage and, one day, we had a minor earthquake. Boxes fell off

The Time Ranger

The Time Ranger | The Great SCV March Blizzard of 1935 

March 22, 2025 1:56 am

We are about 20 minutes into spring. Like so many glorious past seasons, this again shall be a most vibrant and beautiful one. May the rest of 2025 be filled

John Boston

John Boston | City Hall, Help Save the Old Courthouse!

March 21, 2025 4:23 am

I’d attach a kind estimate that 99% of the dear citizens of Santa Clarita know not a thing about that old, beige building on the northwest corner of Market Street

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