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Handling the Holidays Without Your Loved One

“It’s Thanksgiving, I can’t believe he’s not here.” “I wish I could just cancel Christmas this year.” “How can I go on without her?” The empty chair at holiday dinners

Limerick – Senior Dilemma

Some seniors we know have the blues And it’s not a condition they choose They can’t seem to invent A way to get bent Way down to tie up their

Alzheimer’s, One Step at a Time

Imagine forgetting the most significant and life-defining moments of your life. Picture yourself waking up in the morning and seeing a stranger beside you, where the love of your life

Valencia resident appears on national game show

“Come on down!” Those are the words Valencia resident Adam Purnell heard when he attended a taping of “The Price is Right.” Purnell appeared in Tuesday’s episode of the television

Talking with his hands

The first time Allan Trautman put a puppet on his hand was at his first audition. “I was just looking for acting work,” he said. Trautman had just graduated from

Valencia Grad’s Artwork on National Tour

Valencia High School graduate Rebecca Lee’s artwork entitled “#FirstWorldProblems” has been selected for the Art.Write.Now. Tour 2017-17, a national traveling exhibition of the 2016 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. A

Learning science the “mad” way

The Los Angeles County library in Castic presented the Mad Science: Fire and Ice presentation, free of charge for children and parents on Thursday.

I Once Was Lost

  I once was lost but now I’m found I wandered thru life and stumbled around. I had no goals – life was a game I was a player and

A Golfer’s Quest

I had no idea that it was the beginning of a decade’s long quest. It began in the summer of 1951, when Don, Hal, Jerry and I played the par

The Golden Valley Road Bridge: Then and Now

It was just last year when the City held a groundbreaking ceremony for the Golden Valley Road Bridge Widening project over State Route 14. It was a very exciting morning

Editor’s Letter – Send in Your Stories

Organizing and publishing a daily newspaper takes a lot of work. We also have several special publications throughout the year. Now with the completion of the “Best of 2016” publication,

The Real Me

I have two faces, one, that I show in many places, where people wholeheartedly agree and believe that it is the real me, when they see me act funny, silly

2016 Empowering HeArts – Courageous

Editor’s note: The event date has been changed to Saturday, February 11, 2017. Courage is strength in the face of pain of grief, and this year’s 2016 Empowering Hearts Honorees

A reading day with the dogs

Penny, a two-year-old golden retriever, rested her front paws against 10-year-old Athena Roldan’s shoe as Roldan read “BabyMouse Puppy Love” to the dog. Penny and four other dogs sat quietly,

Joint Art Exhibit at Canyon Theatre Guild

Artists Jeanne Iler and Idelle Okman Tyzbir, members of Santa Clarita Artists Association, are having a joint art exhibition entitled “Together” at the Canyon Theater Guild.  The exhibit will run