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Time Ranger | The Great SCV Swallow Suicide of 1955 

Happy first weekend in May, dear friends, neighbors, green newbies, grizzled vets and addendum saddlepals. On today’s ride through Santa Clarita history, we’ve got presidents and some of the weirdest juxtapositioning that it’s almost ghostly.  There’s movie stars, bootleggers, murders and the darn strangest migration of swallows that never made it to Capistrano.  C’mon, you rugged trail tramps and soft

The “Father of the Los Angeles Water System,” William Mulholland (left), chief engineer-general manager of the Los Angeles Bureau of Water Works and Supply, and his assistant H.A. Van Norman inspect remnants of the St. Francis Dam after its catastrophic collapse on March 12, 1928. Photo by George Watson/Courtesy Watson Family Photographic Archive

97th anniversary: St. Francis Dam disaster 

By Signal Staff  The failure of the St. Francis Dam at midnight, March 12, 1928, killed more than 400 people, leveled farms and homesteads, destroyed property and livestock and changed

The “Father of the Los Angeles Water System,” William Mulholland (left), chief engineer-general manager of the Los Angeles Bureau of Water Works and Supply, and his assistant H.A. Van Norman inspect remnants of the St. Francis Dam after its catastrophic collapse on March 12, 1928. Photo by George Watson/Courtesy Watson Family Photographic Archive

St. Francis Dam Tour set for March 15 

News release  The Santa Clarita Valley Historical Society has announced its annual tour of the St. Francis Dam site will be held Saturday, March 15.   Four historians will speak

The front page of The Signal on Jan. 18, 1994.

31 years ago: Jan. 17, 1994 

Friday, Jan. 17, marks the 31st anniversary of the 1994 earthquake, commonly known as the Northridge Earthquake, that caused widespread destruction and isolated the Santa Clarita Valley as bridges and