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By Jim Walker Signal Staff Writer Somewhere between winter, where you sip your full-bodied red in front of the fireplace while snuggled under your comforter, and summer, where you gulp

By Michele E. Buttelman Signal Staff Writer Despite the cancellation of the 2022 California Strawberry Festival in Oxnard, a favorite destination of many Santa Clarita Valley families, there are other

By Jim Walker Signal Staff Writer What do you think of when someone suggests a picnic? Is it a blanket spread out under a big oak tree in a green

By Michele E. Buttelman Signal Staff Writer On July 22, 2016, the Santa Clarita Community Hiking Club took an inaugural hike on the newly completed Dagger Flat Trail — previously

By Jim Walker Signal Staff Writer If you’re like me, you’re feeling a bit overwhelmed with stressful news lately, and I, for one, was really hoping we’d have a super-wet

By Jim Walker Signal Staff Writer Though spring is a seasonal change, it’s not really about the weather, which, locally, has been kind of erratic, swinging from rain to wind

By Michele E. Buttelman Signal Staff Writer After two years of pandemic “staycations” in the Santa Clarita Valley, now is the time to venture out and experience some unique family

By Tammy Murga Signal Staff Writer Doña Uhrig Sunday Signal Editor “Out of Tragedy Comes Inspiration” In 2011, Tom Stevens’ mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Her journey through the disease

By Jim Walker Signal Staff Writer The whole idea of “spring cleaning” is to do things more comprehensively than you do the rest of the year. It’s all about a

By Sarah Sikandar Signal Staff Writer In “Seabiscuit: An American Legend,” Laura Hillenbrand calls a thoroughbred racehorse, “one of God’s most impressive engines … His mind is impressed with a

By Jim Walker Signal Staff Writer Just in time for those suffering from social isolation and depressing world news overload, comes the 94th Academy Awards (2022), honoring movies released in

By Michele E. Buttelman Signal Staff Writer With the first pick in the 2022 Draft, the National Football League selects … Las Vegas. Two years ago, the world shut down

By Michele E. Buttelman Signal Staff Writer For decades the narrative on quality barbecue restaurants in the United States was mostly limited to establishments in Texas and St. Louis. Then

By Michele E. Buttelman Signal Staff Writer Sunset Boulevard stretches from the Pacific Coast Highway in Pacific Palisades east to Figueroa Street in downtown Los Angeles. The entire length of

By Michele E. Buttelman Signal Staff Writer For decades, fourth-grade students in California traditionally made models of a California mission to fulfill the California history curriculum requirement mandated by the