- Mysterious hanging death in Castaic: A 20-something man was found hanging from a tree near Sloan Canyon and Quail Valley roads last month. Authorities think he killed himself, but have been unable to identify him. LA Weekly says he was wearing a crew t-shirt from the hit ABC show LOST and had a cross and rose tattoo. Cops think he may have been hanging from the tree for three weeks SIGNAL, LA WEEKLY
- US Economy added 162,000 jobs in March! That’s the first time in over a year more jobs were added than lost, though experts say Census hiring helped LA TIMES, CALCULATED RISK BLOG
- In the City Council election, nearly 6,000 vote by mail ballots have been sent to City Hall by voters too lazy to go to the polls and vote the correct, American way. SIGNAL
- As Myers reported below, Castaic junior high kids will start attending Valencia High School after the Hart District board voted this week. Castaic leaders are happy because the kids will get to stay together throughout their high school careers SIGNAL
- Buck McKeon met with local Tea Party organizers as they planned their April 15 protest at City Hall. The group met at Nazarene Church in Newhall SCVTALKERS *
- SCV Moms Blog will host one last candidate’s roundtable ahead of the April 13 City Council election next week on Tuesday. The Moms just released the results of their survey in which they found that 52 percent of their respondents admit they have never voted in a City Council election. SURVEY
- Shocking I Heart SCV investigation reveals David Gauny and Frank Ferry are related. “The union of the House of Ferry with the House of Gauny, however tenuous, has several important implications,” explains I HEART SCV
- Only twelve parents and students showed up at the Hart District board meeting to protest the cancellation District-wide of 8th Grade promotion ceremonies. Said one student: “How are we supposed to say I graduated from junior high — I made it? All (of my classmates’) hard work is wasted. And we’re supposed to act as if it’s fine?” I know you’re disappointed but just think of the adventure you’re about to have as a high schooler. Really we’re all proud of you. SIGNAL
- California GOP wants Jerry Brown to sue the federal government over Affordable Care Act. Democrats say the recently-passed health care overhaul “will provide insurance coverage to 7.3 million Californians who do not currently have it and give a tax credit to some 390,000 small businesses in the state.” MERCURY NEWS
- I’m hearing rumors that KHTS’ fake April Fools article about Michele Obama visiting the SCV angered some people around town. They were either upset about being mentioned in the story or upset about being left out. KHTS says the article “ignited angry and odd twitter threads city-wide.” O RLY? KHTS
- Also, a very sensitive teacher was furious with The Signal for joking that the new Castaic High will be located at the Chiquita Canyon landfill. SIGNAL
- RE: the offended people above. Please. Here’s some REAL web-based April Fools pranks
- Tony Strickland has been fined $3,000 by the Fair Political Practices Commission for sending out attack mailers without a real return address in his 2008 campaign for State Senate. VC STAR
- At least 500 SCV commuters would have to find other ways to get to Los Angeles if Metrolink cuts half of its Antelope Valley line trains, the Signal says. “What is someone supposed to do who doesn’t have a car or can’t afford a car?” Marsha McLean asks. SIGNAL
- Two students horsing around leads to hate crime: a 15 year old Saugus student “horsing around” with a 17 year old took the older boy’s hand and “drew a swastika on it … using a piece of hard plastic.” The 15 year old has been arrested. What else can you say but WTF? SIGNAL
- A multi-agency force found a marijuanna grow field worth $6.2 million in Placerita Canyon yesterday. Two Latino men were seen running from the scene and have not been found. The Times says such grow sites are “often operated by Mexican drug traffickers, serviced by farmers brought across the border, and guarded by heavily armed men.” SIGNAL KHTS, TIMES
- A-hole arrested for twenty incidents of air gun violence, including shots fired at bicyclists. The a-hole is allegedly an 18 year old man who authorities have been trying to find for some time. Well, in January he shot at a bicyclist with his air gun, but an alert resident took down his license plate number. That lead detectives to the man who turned himself in yesterday WRB
- How TimBen Boydston got his name MAG OF SCV
- Lanes on the 5 and 14 will be closed in the evening and at night time next week as CalTrans does some car pool lane work KPPC
- Down With Tyranny Blog takes on Buck McKeon’s dishonesty about student loan reform DWT
- Can anyone figure out what Roger Gitlin is whining about in this LTE? Is he complaining that the Signal got the facts right in a recent story? LTE
A decade of the Valley’s town square · 2006–2015
Comments
36 · as published