The Time Ranger | This Week: An Entire Passel of Mean Girls
October 30, 2021
Whelp. This is the big weekend. If you live in Palmdale, make sure to set all your clocks back four hours Sunday morning. If you live in Santa Clarita, wait until
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The Time Ranger | Hotel Fires, Oddball Cattle & Blessed Rain
October 23, 2021
Brings a smile to my face, seeing so many familiar faces, friends, neighbors, people I’ve grown up with. It’s also a treat to see the freshly scrubbed and eager countenances
The Time Ranger | Take a Bathing Suit & a Winter’s Coat…
October 16, 2021
Isn’t this grand? Finally? Weather befitting a powerful and revered civilization like our very own Valley de la SClarita? We’ve a most excellent trail ride this morning, amigos, amigo-ettes and SCV 4-P (Picky
SCV children learn about ‘Calaveras Literarias’ through Hispanic Heritage Month
October 11, 2021
“Koonex, koonex, palexen,” children sang, as they chanted along in Mayan to a children’s song led by Gloria Arjona during Calaveras Literarias. “What you’re saying in Mayan is, ‘Don’t be
The Time Ranger | Dirigibles, Dirt Bags, Dynamite & Death by Towing
October 9, 2021
Well, you’re never going to hear me confide that this promises to be one eye-wateringly boring trailride into the yesteryear of SCV history. Tain’t. Gonna. Happen. We’ve got a pretty amazing trek into the back canyons of
The Time Ranger | James Dean’s Last Meal & Our Female Body Inspector
October 2, 2021
I’m all smiles for it is October. While summer’s heat may linger here and there, I can feel bona fide Autumn and her come hither smile. We’ve a most interesting
The Time Ranger | How DO You Saddle All Those Horses?
September 27, 2021
As we’ve been sometimes accused of providing imaginary horses for an imaginary trail ride, please let me share an imaginary letter to The Time Ranger from one long-time Newhall resident, Chris P. Bacon. Dear
The Time Ranger | How The Possum Returned to the SCV
September 17, 2021
You know. On a day like today, where it’s all hot and then some, I don’t blame some of you if you want to wrap yourself around the air conditioning
The Time Ranger | 9/11 — 20 Years Later. Where Were You?
September 11, 2021
Life gives us so many hues, so many colors. We’ve an interesting time ride ahead, light-hearted to somber. I think it’s a good day to take it all in, to
Original Southern Pacific caboose comes home to SCV’s Heritage Junction
September 7, 2021
A Southern Pacific caboose is now latched to the 1900 steam locomotive at Heritage Junction in William S. Hart Park. The 1942 caboose was set on the tracks adjacent to the Saugus Train Depot Tuesday afternoon following a
Serial Killers, Spitting, Relieving Oneself & Pat Arman
September 4, 2021
We add a new and dear friend this week, riding up front. Pat Arman magically became history. We’ve been friends for more than half a century and I shall continue to enjoy hearing his wonderful stories,
RFK assassin recommended for parole
August 27, 2021
Sirhan Sirhan, the man who assassinated Robert F. Kennedy in June 1968, was recommended for parole on Friday following testimony by the former attorney general’s two living sons. On June 5, 1968, while in the midst
The Time Ranger | Welcome Adele. A Smile Brighter than Sunrise…
August 21, 2021
We’ve added a permanent trail rider to this weekend’s posse. Let’s all tip our Stetsons to a dear pal, Adele “More Than Swell” Macpherson. She made her transition this week. Adele had
The Time Ranger | SCVians Set World Record — for Beatlemania
August 14, 2021
Here we are, smack dab in the midst of the dog days. I can think of no better way to escape the Planet Mercury-like temperatures than a leisurely mosey through
The Time Ranger | So How Many of You Live in Canyon of the Dead?
August 7, 2021
Nice to see you, dear saddlepals and saddlepal-ettes. Have to admit. You’re all looking quite fetching and Western, this first trail ride in August. As usual, we’ve got some pretty entertaining vistas ahead
The Time Ranger | Heat, Heat & More Blankety-Blank Heat
July 31, 2021
A happy weekend morning to you, dear saddlepals. Hope those of you who aren’t in the saddle much are walking more like humans than cowboys after last week’s trail ride. Stretch. Walk. Hydrate. Do The Backstroke in the Second
The Time Ranger | Now it can be Told: Trueblood Sucks Lemons!
July 24, 2021
Don’t be alarmed. It’s me. I was just holding this aluminum foil reflecting screen under my chin to catch a little sun where extraterrestrial bodies nary shine. Summer, you know.
The Time Ranger | Be Careful. Too Many Baddies About …
July 17, 2021
OK. OK. Hold it. I know the demographics point to the fact that most Santa Claritanites are newcomers. But that doesn’t mean you get to bounce about on a horse in your
The Time Ranger | Bears & The SCV’s 1st ‘Star-Spangled Banner’
July 10, 2021
A warm — no. Make that more appropriately a HOT & Western welcome to you dear SClaritiatonians. Hope all’s well and you’re stocked up on at least a few 55-gallon drums of
The Time Ranger | Parades, Pitchforks & A Happy July 4th, SCV!
July 3, 2021
We had a streak since 1932 for having a big Fourth of July parade that had only been interrupted once by a minor inconvenience called World War II. Last year’s parade was cancelled, too. Alas,