Hope you all are having a fine Saturday morning. We have a great little adventure ahead of us, including the great discovery of gold in this here valley, and a band of Protestant lynchers
Emerson Davis paid a visit to the William S. Hart Union High School District’s office on Wednesday and was met with multicolored canvases that highlighted prominent Black figures in history. As she took in the creative minds of
This fine Signal Saturday morn, amen boy howdy, do we have a swell trek ahead. We’ll investigate an amazing tale of being shanghaied and a wild hunt for Hell’s Angels hiding in the chaparral. (For you new Time Ranger saddlepals unfamiliar
News release What do you do when you’ve been called the “Hysterical Society” for a half-century? You grab the ball and run with it: The Santa Clarita Valley Historical Society is celebrating its 50th anniversary
We’ve a most interesting trek ahead through Santa Clarita Valley history, what with glass volcanoes, presidential candidates, Mr. Jane Fonda and a California Highway Patrol feeding frenzy. Left foot goes in the stirrup. Bounce a little. Hop on up. If you’ve done
News release John Boston, an author, local historian and columnist for The Signal, is scheduled Sunday to host a presentation on “humorous and secret tales on Santa Clarita Valley newspaper
Being straight as Interstate 5 past Bakersfield and in a confident, male, heterosexual fashion, I truly wish all you dear Santa Clarita saddlepals a most enjoyable, meaningful and sweet Valentine’s Day today. May all
Aren’t we positively lucky, to be living in a Garden of Eden where it’s a million below zero back east and we’re lounging resplendent in T-shirt weather? C’mon. Slip that left boot toe into
A lot has changed since Feb. 7, 1919. One thing has not … The Signal is always there. I would like to thank all the past owners, publishers, editors, employees and subscribers who have made this paper
Boy howdy, what with predatory black panthers, a Ripley’s local Believe it or Not oak, ghost camels and your usual smattering of crooks, nuts, bunglers and gee-whiz info, we’re going to be hitting the history trail running, amigos. Hop
Boy howdy, we’ve got an absolutely eerie trail ride through local history ahead, amigos and amigo-ettes. Eerie, I say. And it’s not even close to Halloween. We’ve got Hollywood gangsters, dens of iniquity,
For some of us, it’s a couple days past the deadline to get our quarterly tax payments postmarked. For the rest of you wage monkeys, it’s time to don a huge smile, check the cinches and swing a (one and
This is a Santa Clarita weekend where I shall not stop smiling. I’ll tell you why at the end of this morning’s trail ride. That teaser aside, happy Early January, dear saddlepals. We’ve a most interesting trek waiting
Time surely seems to be accelerating. It feels like 20 minutes ago we were greeting the new year of 2025. Well. Add another digit onto the 21st century. We’ve a most interesting trek ahead, o
Before we head off through a time vortex draped by tinsel and mistletoe, I doff my oversized O’Farrell and offer a humble thank you. There are Santa Claritans I have known for
Before we start out, just a reminder for you truly efficient and capable people riding with us today: There are just 377 shopping days until Christmas 2026. Phew. Glad we got that obligatory
I’ve been doing these trail rides into Santa Clarita Valley history for almost 50 years now. We just celebrated Christmas for 2025 and hope you were surrounded by loved ones. May you become, most joyously, the
Jiminy Christmas, would someone mind telling me where 2025 went? Less than a month and we’ve burnt another year. Thank goodness for the miracle of time traveling, where we can mosey back
OK you Santa Claritanites, yuppies and grizzled cowpokes and all beloved betwixt. I know there’s a you somewhere underneath those turkey tummies rising and falling on the couches and beds. Day’s breaking. We’ve some time traveling to
Top of a November Santa Clarita weekend to you, friends. As we stroll our ponies out for our historical constitutional this morning, we’ve some mighty darn interesting vistas ahead. We’ll start by going all the way back to the