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The Time Ranger | Sorry, Saugusites. You May Live in Ratsburg…

December 4, 2021 3:23 pm

Well happy first weekend of December in this science fiction-sounding date of 2021. Next thing you know, they’ll be inventing little flying saucers with cameras in them, electronic garage door openers and teaching kindergartners how they feel about math. It’s absolutely grand to be atop a fine steed in Santa Clarita. If I may say, all you fine Santa Clarita saddlepals look like

The Time Ranger | Hitler, More Snow & a Bisected Bandito

November 27, 2021 9:08 am

The Time Ranger | Snow, Rain & Naked Guy CHP Wrestling

November 20, 2021 12:59 pm

The Time Ranger | Buffalo Tom: Don’t Flip Over That Train

November 13, 2021 11:13 am

Time Ranger | The Infamous 35-lb. HOA Pet Rule

November 6, 2021 11:09 am

The Time Ranger | Hitler, More Snow & a Bisected Bandito

November 27, 2021 9:08 am

The Time Ranger | Snow, Rain & Naked Guy CHP Wrestling

November 20, 2021 12:59 pm

The Time Ranger | Buffalo Tom: Don’t Flip Over That Train

November 13, 2021 11:13 am

Time Ranger | The Infamous 35-lb. HOA Pet Rule

November 6, 2021 11:09 am

The Time Ranger | This Week: An Entire Passel of Mean Girls

October 30, 2021 2:02 am

Whelp. This is the big weekend. If you live in Palmdale, make sure to set all your clocks back four hours Sunday morning. If you live

The Time Ranger | Hotel Fires, Oddball Cattle & Blessed Rain

October 23, 2021 10:19 am

Brings a smile to my face, seeing so many familiar faces, friends, neighbors, people I’ve grown up with. It’s also a treat to see the

The Time Ranger | Take a Bathing Suit & a Winter’s Coat…

October 16, 2021 6:00 am

Isn’t this grand? Finally? Weather befitting a powerful and revered civilization like our very own Valley de la SClarita? We’ve a most excellent trail ride this morning,

SCV children learn about ‘Calaveras Literarias’ through Hispanic Heritage Month

October 11, 2021 5:36 pm

“Koonex, koonex, palexen,” children sang, as they chanted along in Mayan to a children’s song led by Gloria Arjona during Calaveras Literarias. “What you’re saying

The Time Ranger | Dirigibles, Dirt Bags, Dynamite & Death by Towing

October 9, 2021 4:00 am

Well, you’re never going to hear me confide that this promises to be one eye-wateringly boring trailride into the yesteryear of SCV history. Tain’t. Gonna. Happen. We’ve got a pretty amazing trek

The Time Ranger | James Dean’s Last Meal & Our Female Body Inspector

October 2, 2021 3:49 am

I’m all smiles for it is October. While summer’s heat may linger here and there, I can feel bona fide Autumn and her come hither

The Time Ranger | How DO You Saddle All Those Horses?

September 27, 2021 11:04 am

As we’ve been sometimes accused of providing imaginary horses for an imaginary trail ride, please let me share an imaginary letter to The Time Ranger from one long-time Newhall

The Time Ranger | How The Possum Returned to the SCV

September 17, 2021 4:41 pm

You know. On a day like today, where it’s all hot and then some, I don’t blame some of you if you want to wrap

The Time Ranger | 9/11 — 20 Years Later. Where Were You?

September 11, 2021 5:28 am

Life gives us so many hues, so many colors. We’ve an interesting time ride ahead, light-hearted to somber. I think it’s a good day to

Original Southern Pacific caboose comes home to SCV’s Heritage Junction

September 7, 2021 7:14 pm

A Southern Pacific caboose is now latched to the 1900 steam locomotive at Heritage Junction in William S. Hart Park. The 1942 caboose was set on the tracks adjacent to the Saugus

Serial Killers, Spitting, Relieving Oneself & Pat Arman

September 4, 2021 12:37 am

We add a new and dear friend this week, riding up front. Pat Arman magically became history. We’ve been friends for more than half a century and I shall

RFK assassin recommended for parole

August 27, 2021 4:57 pm

Sirhan Sirhan, the man who assassinated Robert F. Kennedy in June 1968, was recommended for parole on Friday following testimony by the former attorney general’s two living sons. On June

The Time Ranger | Welcome Adele. A Smile Brighter than Sunrise…

August 21, 2021 9:00 am

We’ve added a permanent trail rider to this weekend’s posse. Let’s all tip our Stetsons to a dear pal, Adele “More Than Swell” Macpherson. She made her

The Time Ranger | SCVians Set World Record — for Beatlemania

August 14, 2021 4:43 pm

Here we are, smack dab in the midst of the dog days. I can think of no better way to escape the Planet Mercury-like temperatures

The Time Ranger | So How Many of You Live in Canyon of the Dead?

August 7, 2021 11:08 am

Nice to see you, dear saddlepals and saddlepal-ettes. Have to admit. You’re all looking quite fetching and Western, this first trail ride in August. As usual, we’ve got

The Time Ranger | Heat, Heat & More Blankety-Blank Heat

July 31, 2021 8:19 am

A happy weekend morning to you, dear saddlepals. Hope those of you who aren’t in the saddle much are walking more like humans than cowboys after last week’s

The Time Ranger | Now it can be Told: Trueblood Sucks Lemons!

July 24, 2021 8:21 am

Don’t be alarmed. It’s me. I was just holding this aluminum foil reflecting screen under my chin to catch a little sun where extraterrestrial bodies

The Time Ranger | Be Careful. Too Many Baddies About …

July 17, 2021 8:51 am

OK. OK. Hold it. I know the demographics point to the fact that most Santa Claritanites are newcomers. But that doesn’t mean you get to bounce about

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