It is an exciting time for water users in the Santa Clarita Valley. For the past year, Castaic Lake Water Agency and Newhall County Water District have explored the potential
I have been writing this column for almost 20 years and I am grateful to The Signal for giving me this wonderful opportunity. It has given me personal joy to
All of the other reindeer Used to laugh and call him names They never let poor Rudolph Join in any reindeer games. – Johnny Marks Woe is me! For the
California is finally embracing its rivers. We Californians have long celebrated our coastal splendor and beautiful mountains. But our rivers were seen as mere plumbing for our hydration convenience. Now
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As the newly elected begin to take office next week, a changing of the guard will commence that will bring fresh faces to nearly every level of Santa Clarita Valley’s
This time of year sure brings out the lists. We put together event lists for the parties we’ll be hosting, shopping lists for market day, and address lists of those
Who needs Santa anymore? We now have the “Careculus” from jet.com to tell us how much our “friends” fawn on us (I am not making this up – it’s being
It was June 2014 when Mayor Bob Kellar voted to spend $204,000 taxpayer dollars to hold a special election to override a successful referendum that put a stop to digital
The morning after this tumultuous election cycle finally ended, residents waited to see if chaos would unfold around them. Some took to the streets believing the power shift would spell
After a previous “Right About Now” column about liberal overreaction to president-elect Trump, I began to think more about the dissemination of news and information with regards to politics. Without
As the middle class continues to shrink, the edge of the cliff for some is a fall into homelessness. Gary Horton’s recent plea in his column “Public homelessness defiles us
O Beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam, Undimmed by human tears! America! America! God shed His grace on thee, And crown thy good
Each year, more than 6 million young people receive treatment for severe mental, emotional, or behavioral problems,” according to a 2015 study. In America mental health is becoming more and
My husband, a recently deceased World War II Veteran, and I, as contributors to the Fallen Warriors Monument, favor Bill Reynolds’ proposal to extend the existing pergola at Veterans Historical
“Maple Street, USA, late summer. A tree-lined little world of front porch gliders, barbecues, the laughter of children and the bell of an ice cream vendor. “At the sound of
This rebuke of the recent traffic study to do with major intersections throughout Santa Clarita (“City responds, rebukes study” published Nov. 25 in The Signal) is nothing more than sweeping
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I once joked that I’d like to write a book entitled “Life in the Blender.” We get up earlier than we want to most days, and right away the schedule
Now that the election is settled, Donald Trump has removed the brown bag mask. What we saw under it is a real estate mogul, an actor, a con man, and