By Tim Whyte Signal Editor  Rep. Katie Hill dropped by The Signal’s offices the other day, and it was an enjoyable conversation. She was forthcoming, engaging, frank and witty.  And,

By Tim Whyte Signal Editor  I’ll never forget the day Randy Wicks died. It was 1996. My wife and I were on a camping trip to the Santa Barbara wine

By Tim Whyte Signal Editor  Sitting in Central Park last Saturday, listening to live country music performed by some of the genre’s most current artists, I experienced an eerie reminder

By Tim Whyte Signal Editor  When our son Luc was little, just learning to play hockey, my wife and I told him there was one thing most important about hockey:

By Tim Whyte Signal Editor  Press me into answering the question, “What’s your favorite song?” and there’s always been a solid chance that I’d say it was “Don’t Stop Believin’”

By Tim Whyte Signal Editor  I’m not often at a loss for words. But that’s where I was a couple of weeks ago, when my mom texted me at work

One of the most haunting statements came from a dear friend. Barb was an opera singer. She noted: “We either marry, or give birth to, our needles.” Ouch. Amen. Boy

By Tim Whyte Signal Editor  About eight or nine years ago, I served as the team manager of my son’s youth hockey team. By then, I was beyond the “dad

A lot is said about the “mess” of California. Taxes, traffic, sprawl, housing costs – on and on. There’s no shortage of moaners moaning on and on about California’s faults.

By Tim Whyte Signal Editor  I made a joke one time with my son and one of his hockey teammates, about a decade ago. We were talking about nicknames, and

By Tim Whyte Signal Editor  My memories of Town and Country Farm School are a little fuzzy. It was one of several places we tried for our first born, when

By Tim Whyte Signal Editor  Why do we like Tiger Woods? It was a question posed by one of my favorite sports talk hosts, Colin Cowherd of Fox Sports, the

By Tim Whyte Signal Editor  A horse reminded me of Dale Earnhardt the other day. As I wrote last week, I’ve been a NASCAR fan since I was a kid.

By David Hegg My wife and I say the movie “Unplanned” last week. The true story of a woman in the abortion industry kicked up quite a bit of conversational

By Tim Whyte Signal Editor  The first time my parents took me to Saugus Speedway in 1975, I was hooked. It amazed me how fast and loud the cars were,

By Tim Whyte Signal Editor  Remember the “Thank You, Buck?” banners? They went up on more than a dozen bridges and overpasses around town, thanking then-Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon, R-Santa

By Tim Whyte Signal Editor  One of my habits is that I like to stop at my neighborhood Circle K every morning and get a 44-ounce iced beverage to get

By Tim Whyte Signal Editor  My daughter has a little bit of Ricky Bobby in her: She thinks second place is the first loser.  Yes. Both of our kids —

By Tim Whyte Signal Editor  A part of me was disappointed when David Barlavi didn’t raise a clenched fist during the flag salute at Tuesday’s Saugus Union School District board meeting.