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Valencia Marketplace, the finest in Big Box retailing, earning money for the County since 1996. Woe unto our landscape.
- Newhall resident targets Councilwoman Weste with FPPC complaint: Weste (or her mother?) owns a large piece of property in Placerita Canyon, just a stone’s throw from several properties (and roads) in Newhall that may or may not be redeveloped in connection with the North Newhall Specific Plan, and resident Ben Curtis doesn’t like what he sees. Weste says she abides by the City Counsel’s advice and guidance and abstains from voting North Newhall Specific Plan matters. Link
- Cross Valley Connector “one bridge away” from completion: East-west motorized conveyance will get a boost as the city kicks off the last phase of its 10+ year, $245 million road project linking Highway 126 to, eventually, Highway 14, the Signal reports today. The last phase is a 1,100 foot long bridge that will connect Golden Valley Road to Highway 126. Katie Geyer says construction on the bridge may begin in December.
- Play Bob the Builder with Newhall Library cutouts: It sounds a bit cheesy, but at Wednesday night’s Newhall Library workshop, participants will be able to build their own library with “cutout forms” that will “provide an opportunity to let [participants] play around and come with their own personal design of the library.” The outreach meeting is the first held by architecture firm LPA, chosen by the city to lead the design of a future 16,000-30,000 sq. ft. library anchoring Old Town Newhall. Link
- Signal profiles homeless person in SCV: Writer Tammy Marashlian had an excellent Sunday feature about “Karan,” a 58 year old woman who sleeps in her car and struggles to find stable work in Santa Clarita or elsewhere. “There’s absolutely nothing in my background that prepared me for this. I came from a solid, middle-class family and people worked.” Good article
- “Very sexy underwear,” Pomeranian dog stolen: No, not necessarily in that order, but Signal reporter Jim Holt has a round-up of some bizarre thefts lately in Santa Clarita, including $500 worth of “very sexy” underwear from a shop on Magic Mountain. Not only did someone steal the sexy lingerie (and here I’m assuming it’s female undergarments), but they had to take it from the “very sexy room” in the shop. Link
- Mentryville, Trees, and History: Interesting A-1 story in today’s Signal on the cutting down and removal of what former Mentryville resident Darryl Manzer calls historic trees in the old oil boomtown west of Santa Clarita. The Santa Monica Mountains conservancy says the trees are diseased, rotting from the inside, and might fall on some of the old buildings there, but Manzer says they’re part of history. The story will continue when Manzer takes Signal reporter Jim Holt on a walking tour tomorrow. Link
- Fire in Green Valley: A massive plume of gray smoke consumed the northern horizon yesterday in Santa Clarita as a 150 acre brush fire near Green Valley marked the start of fire season. SCVTV has a report.
- Cops, firefighters gather for motorcycle rememberance ride: Santa Clarita is “fire and police country,” Mayor Bob Kellar told some 1,000 bikers who gathered at Valencia Town center for a 100 mile ride around the SCV to commemorate fallen firefighters and police officers on Sunday. Link
- Signal says Hart ought to start building Castaic High before bond vote: Creekside says that if the Hart District wants $300 million from us, it ought to “figure out where to build a high school in Castaic, tell the community when and where you will start construction, and then do it.” The Sunday editorial talks a bit about the last bond measure -$158 million in 2001- and mentions the parents group lead by Joe Messina, which opposes the current measure unless specific steps are taken. Link
- Hospital/Campus Expansion dominates Sunday Op/Ed: I’ve got to compliment the Signal on giving abundant space to David Gauny and Tim Myers to argue the specific points of the Henry Mayo Hospital expansion in Valencia. Gauny’s column was organized, coherent, logical and pretty powerful, while Myers’ column wasn’t very convincing. I won’t bother to sum either one up; you should read it yourself and be informed. Also note, I Heart seems to agree with me.
- Great ad on same sex marriage: Is this a political ad or not? Opponents of same sex marriage say it is, but others don’t see it that way. Whatever the case, it seems to have people talking, which I suppose is the point. Link