Sunday Signal

Celebrating, recognizing women throughout history

With the March 24 City Council meeting being canceled as a response to the directives around COVID-19, the Council won’t have the opportunity to formally recognize March as “Women’s History Month” as we had planned.

Tips on ways to weather seasonal joint pain

Do April showers bring May flowers or just a lot of aches and pains? While research on how weather affects a person’s pain levels is inconclusive, many people swear that

Now’s the time to teach at-home nutrition

With a lot of parents facing the challenge of keeping housebound kids happy and healthy, this is the perfect time to teach kids the basics of nutrition and eating right. 

New medications help with Parkinson’s treatment

Parkinson’s disease is a progressive nervous system disorder that primarily affects movement. In the earliest stages of Parkinson’s, an affected person’s face also may show little or no expression and

Making the most of increased family time

It’s been a week since schools in the Santa Clarita Valley closed, meaning kids, as well as parents, have been stuck primarily indoors due to the coronavirus and dreary weather.

How the novel coronavirus is transmitted

COVID-19, the novel coronavirus that was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization in mid-March, has claimed thousands of lives across the globe. Though the WHO insists that the

Foothill baseball hits pause amid precautions

Prep basketball has officially ended in Santa Clarita, and a new season is underway. Although spring prep sports have been postponed until April 30, baseball presented quite a few memorable

Access your City of Santa Clarita services online

By City Manager Ken Striplin In this time of concern about the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), federal, state and county health officials continue to make sweeping recommendations to

The Time Ranger

Tom Frew Starts 5th Grade. Yet Again

Hasn’t this just been so glorious — this March miracle of rain? The hills are going to be just riotous in the following weeks. We’ve got everything from earthquakes to

‘Memento Mori’

My daughter’s friend recently lost his mother to cancer three weeks after her diagnosis. She was only 68. It was painful to witness the grief that her friend faced in