John Boston | What the City Needs is the SClarita V. Zoo
August 15, 2025 7:03 am
This is not exactly a new idea of mine. I was a teen when it first hit me that what my riparian community desperately needed — besides shoes and fire
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The Time Ranger | The Very First Patients at Henry ‘Hold the’ Mayo …
August 9, 2025 1:24 am
Santa Clarita nuclear holocausts? Yup. A rather tacky “Nuts & Bolts” party? Mmm-hmmm. Outlaws? An entire passel. One of my favorite phrases to annoy my lady friends: “Farmerettes?” Amen boy
John Boston | The Halcyon Days of 22¢ a Gallon Gas
August 8, 2025 6:30 am
Byron Wardlaw and I were close chums in high school, Hart, to be specific, Forever Home to The Mighty Indians and not those nuevo bird flu hawks (lower case). Byron
The Time Ranger | Rats, Snake Thieves & 1,000-lb. Mike Herrington
August 2, 2025 1:07 am
Positively and simply staggering, how time flies. First Saturday of August. Each of you ask yourselves what you’re doing with your lives. Make a slight face. Shrug. Say, aloud, “Well
John Boston | There’s No Fortunes in the Cookies
August 1, 2025 4:08 am
I am miffed at yet another cherished American institution that has fallen by the wayside. I’m talking about the Chinese fortune cookie. My fetching daughter and recent college grad das
The Time Ranger | Elephants Gone Mad & Some Local Parents, Too …
July 26, 2025 5:10 am
Amen boy howdy. The thermometer gods have been most kind so far this July. Almost August and it’s been downright pleasant and then some. We’ve a most interesting trek ahead
John Boston | Me and the Neanderthals Forget Stuff
July 25, 2025 3:45 am
The other day I was trying to figure out if ever, in my lifetime, I had to sprint back into the house three times for things I had forgotten. I
The Time Ranger | What Kind of Creep Steals an American Flag?
July 19, 2025 1:39 am
Hope you didn’t have one of those “Lost Weekend” benders of a Friday night, dear Santa Clarita saddlepals over the age of 21. Top of a July Saturday morn to
John Boston | Make Mr. SCV the City’s Next Planning Czar!
July 18, 2025 3:42 am
Dear City o’ SClarita City Council — Pals! I write today to beseech you to cease and desist in your search for a new planning commissioner. Why? You have in
The Time Ranger | The Fabled Mint Canyon $10 Piano Fee Feud
July 12, 2025 1:11 am
Well. Somehow, here we are, summer. Belly of the Beast. Hope you don’t mind. I’ve installed personal equestrian misters to spray a gentle ghosting of refreshing water over us as
John Boston | Warfare de Gorillas & The Evil Eye
July 11, 2025 5:52 am
My first run-in with war was when I was 5. I was playing in the living room and my handsome young father was in the overstuffed chair, reading the newspaper.
The Time Ranger | Our Controversial Giant Grizzly Bear
July 5, 2025 1:05 am
You’ll excuse me if I’m still a bit sappy and bursting with pride. But I feel rather lucky to be an American. We’re not perfect as a country or a
John Boston | Let’s Now Ban Sore Throats Due to Hoarseness?
July 4, 2025 4:28 am
Once, I snapped at Ruth Newhall. In the newsroom. Strangest thing? I am here, alive, and able to talk about my death-inviting stupidity. It was about 50 years ago and
The Time Ranger | An All-Time Typo and Magic Mountain Melees
June 28, 2025 1:16 am
Top of June’s last Saturday morning to you, dear saddlepals. I’d step into the entryway, but I’ve got the spurs on and, no offense, I’d rather not leave those thousands
John Boston | So How Much Leeway Do I Get in My Will?
June 27, 2025 3:56 am
I’ve grown fond of publicly writing the phrase, “as I begin to approach middle age.” It irritates many literal thinkers with sound math and logic skills. They note if I’m
The Time Ranger | Ovines, Bovines & The Death of Two-Gun Bill
June 21, 2025 1:23 am
Awaiting us this fine June Santa Clarita morn is a most interesting trek, filled with ghosts, local movies and the local Uth Am River. We’ll also tip our cowboy toppers
The Time Ranger | The Weirdest Lawman Fatality in SCV History
June 14, 2025 12:17 am
Top of a fine June morn, o fellow riders into the outback of local history. We’ve a most interesting trail ahead, filled with gunfights, “grizzer” bears and one of the
John Boston | On Schopenhauer, Father’s Day & Quiet Desperation
June 13, 2025 6:02 am
Hardly a day goes by where I don’t think of my dad. One of the great gifts of my lifetime was being able to spend time with him his final
The Time Ranger | June: The SCV’s Rainy Season?
June 7, 2025 1:18 am
A happy first Saturday of June, in the Year of our Lord, 2025. I put, “Year of our Lord” just to irritate any ACLU attorneys who happen to be trailing
The Time Ranger | Happy Birthday to HMNMH & The Presbyterians!
May 31, 2025 1:00 am
Oh. And regarding the headline? Not to forget the birthday of Newhall Land (& Farming Co.) Eesh. O the months turn into years. Seems like we were all making our