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St. Paddy’s Day celebrations are back on!

Last year, St. Patrick’s Day 2020 was all but canceled due to a new pandemic sweeping across the globe.  A day usually celebrated with corned beef, shepherd’s pie and green

Experience the butterflies in SoCal

By Michele E. Buttelman Signal Staff Writer Butterflies are magical. But in addition to their beauty, these delicate insects are an important part of the food chain. Butterflies, like bees,

Thinking outside the box, on wheels

While the pandemic brought about a number of challenges, it also inspired opportunities — like the brightly colored bus full of preschoolers who can often be heard singing along with

No fads, just building healthy lifestyles

Every year, millions make resolutions to better their overall health and fitness by trying the latest fad diet or workout — but those goals are sometimes exhausted and abandoned even

How new habits are changing our workplace

One thing is for sure as we look toward the future of office space: change. For most, a healthy office or workspace is a social atmosphere — try and remember

Seeking Sasquatch

Bigfoot, Squatch, Skunk Ape, Woods Devil … the Sasquatch is known by many regional names throughout the world. Tales of Sasquatch can be found throughout Native American culture.  The Algonquian

SCV teen keeping an eye on the goal

From the time Santa Clarita native Marcus Ferkranus was 5 years old, he’s been working to accomplish his dream of becoming a professional soccer player. Since then, the now 17-year-old

First steps to planning your Wedding

By Michele Lutes Signal Staff Writer Your engagement should leave you feeling happy, loved and optimistic but eventually, when the reality of wedding planning sets in, it can leave you

Capturing the celestial skies from Santa Clarita

Glimmering star clusters, distant galaxies and sporadic fireballs that light up the skies. It’s all visible from the backyards of populated neighborhoods of the Santa Clarita Valley.  That is, if

Meal prep kits make cooking simpler and fun

By Taylor Villanueva Signal Staff Writer The stress of cooking can be overwhelming —traveling to the grocery store, searching the aisles for the correct ingredients, time spent cooking and then

Finding that perfect Valentine’s Day date

Sometimes the nicest Valentine’s Day dates can be the simplest: you and your loved one, a nice meal, perhaps a favorite bottle of wine and, maybe, if you’re lucky, a

How to host a safe, socially distant wedding

It’s likely that few people heard of “social distancing” prior to 2020. That changed as the novel coronavirus spread rapidly across the globe and the world found itself in the

Creative ways to be healthy in the home office

It’s almost been a year now since the concept of working from home became a reality for most, with makeshift home-office setups becoming the unofficial norm. As kitchen or dining

Looking at growth industries in 2021

As we enter a new year, many are making changes in their lives, including in career goals.  This year, those goals, like much else, are most likely affected by the