Signal 100 | The Signal and the Cowboy way
March 4, 2019
No. 9 in a series of 52 commemorating 100-year anniversary of The Signal Years ago, I used to help out at the local Cowboy Festival when it was properly held
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Signal 100 | When reporters run wild
February 23, 2019
No. 8 in a series of 52 commemorating 100-year anniversary of The Signal “I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what
Signal 100 | The killing of Ed Brown
February 16, 2019
Part 7 of 52 In the 19th century, Santa Clarita was a Wild West valley, as dangerous a place to live as any. We had one of America’s biggest range
Signal 100 | Thornton Doelle: The Forgotten Star
February 9, 2019
Part 6 of 52 By John Boston Signal Staff Writer The great and lingering sin of Thornton Doelle is simple. He’s not famous. Actor. Forest ranger. Lawman. Poet. Romantic. Original
Hot coffee and a fresh Signal on Feb. 7, 1919
February 1, 2019
What a fascinating device, to have a time machine that actually works. I’d order the deluxe kit, one that comes with a universal translator and Shroud of Mental Fog so
Signal 100 | Chasing the Stories of Might Have Been
January 26, 2019
By John Boston Signal Staff Writer Part 4 of 52 For years, I nagged anyone who wouldn’t listen about a mythological creature supposedly living right under our noses. This great
100 Years: The Signal Story
January 26, 2019
There will never be another Scott Newhall
January 18, 2019
By John Boston Signal Staff Writer I had been crying, not a dignified thing for a satirist. Right before Halloween and upstaging Bill Clinton’s 1992 November election, Scott Newhall died.
Former and current Santa Clarita officials reflect on 1994 Northridge earthquake
January 17, 2019
Picture waking up at 4:31 a.m. to several seconds of violent jolts, buildings collapsing and fires erupting left and right. Confused and scared, you reach for your cellphone to call
Northridge: the science of the quake and what awaits
January 17, 2019
On this day 25 years ago, a “big one” rattled Southern California. Billions of dollars in direct damage, thousands injured and dozens lost their lives as a result of the
The Mighty Signal and history
January 12, 2019
Here’s a staggering fact: The Signal is older than the American woman’s right to vote. The Mighty Signal’s first issue came out on Friday, Feb. 7, 1919. The 19th Amendment,
Before so much and so many, there was The Mighty Signal
January 9, 2019
Before television and radio transmission. Before talking movies. Before the Eskimo Pie, the hair dryer, traffic lights, the Band-Aid, convertible cars or the cheeseburger. Before the invention of the bulldozer,
John Boston’s Time Ranger & SCV History: A Special 1,000-Year History of SCV Christmases
December 25, 2018
I think I’ve been doing these trail rides into SCV history for almost 40 years now. What do you know. It’s Christmas, 2018. May you be surrounded by loved ones.
Time Ranger: Looking down from Pig Mountain
August 27, 2018
Dearest saddlepals? Is that you, still hugging the pillows and sleeping off the previous night’s debauchery? C’mon. It’s Santa Clarita history trail-riding time. I’ve several thousand well-humored ponies downstairs, each
Time Ranger: SCV’s live Miss Nude Universe (And other history stuff)
August 20, 2018
Hello, saddlepals. I’ve a question. How can you possibly NOT read a story with the headline, Miss SCV Nude Universe? You can’t. You’re powerless. C’mon. As is our Sunday drill,
Time Ranger: Vampire Van Cannibal Killer Stalks SCV
August 13, 2018
A warm and western howdy to you, saddlepals and saddlepal-ettes. Amen, boy howdy. I haven’t written that phrase in eons. Bottom of my heart, it’s absolute Christmas to see all