Popping Up Festive Holiday Fun

During a holiday season that may not quite feel the same for many families, you can add a magic touch to at-home festivities with activities and treats that get everyone

Pairing your fav holiday movies with food, drink

By Amy Anderson Signal Contributing Writer Ah, the holiday season. Like ornaments and fir trees, yule logs and fireplaces, here’s another classic holiday pairing: Christmas movies and food. Everyone has

A few ways to design with authentic materials

Creating a welcoming and relaxing space may be easier than you expect when you give natural materials a leading role in your design. Elements like natural stone, wood, fiber, metals

Volunteers make a difference

By Mary Petersen Signal Staff Writer I stayed a few days with my friend Joan who had a hip replacement last month. It was a gentle reminder that illnesses, diseases

Stocking Stuffers for Everyone on Your List

Before you can hang the stockings by the chimney with care, you have to figure out how you’re going to stuff them. Nearly every family has a different approach, but

Potted plants can go well beyond the holidays

By Jane Gates Signal Staff Writer Decorate with potted plants to add some last minute festivity to your home, house entry or garden. Most holiday plants can not only add

Alan Ferdman | Living Like Our Great-Grandparents

Last week, two days of Southern California Edison shutting down my neighborhood’s power started me thinking about what life might be like in California when my grandchildren have children.  Today,

SCV Voices: Guest Commentary

Sarah Menoher Freifeld | A Conservative Choice on Climate

Historically, climate change has been perceived as a cause celebre of left-leaning activists since conservatives have been reticent to voice concerns about the issue.  However, conservatives now recognize that America’s

Letters to the Editor

Bridget Caffrey | COVID-19 and Global Poverty

When we consider the COVID-19 pandemic and everything left in its path of destruction, it has arguably left one of its greatest impacts on global poverty rates. As The World

Letters to the Editor

Jack Irwin | A Contrast on Love vs. Hate

Thank you for Pastor David Hegg’s column in your Sunday Signal, Dec. 13. His column “Love that Matters Most” was an uplifting encouragement calling us to the life of love

Letters to the Editor

Max Morgan | Keep it up, Democrats

As a Republican I also share Lois Eisenberg’s (letters, Nov. 27) misplaced discursive glee in the election of Joe Biden. In the last 12 years, eight under Obama/Biden, and four

Letters to the Editor

Georginalee McDougal | Who Can End the PSPS?

For the fourth time this year, residents of Santa Clarita, in particular Canyon Country, have been on the receiving end of public safety power shutoffs. As the third of these

Letters to the Editor

Aran Dokovna | Time to Form a New County?

It’s nice to see some fresh thinking, thank you John Dennis (letters, Dec. 8). A new county would provide many new functions to the Santa Clarity Valley. A county fire