- Contentious chloride conference concerning all Claritans coming to City Hall tomorrow SIGNAL
- 24 year old Porsche driver loses control of his car in Bouquet Canyon and runs into a tree, resulting in the death of a 26 year old female passenger. Michael Hemperly Jr, the driver, tested above the legal limit for alcohol and has been booked for felony drunk driving and vehicular manslaughter. The collision occurred Saturday morning at around 2 am and the driver suffered only slight injuries SIGNAL, KHTS
- Michael Dean Stephens, the 21 year old man accused of the 2007 murder of Canyon high grad Joshua Pipho, will face trial soon says the SIGNAL
- LA Times profiles Carole and Dave Lutness, the local uber-liberal duo, in a piece about financial security, retirement, and financial planning. The Lutnesses have done everything right: paid off their house, their cars, no credit card debt and over a half million in savings, but they are hesitant to retire even as a financial planner says they are ready. LA TIMES
- Newhall woman celebrates her 100th Birthday. Gladys Laney has called Newhall her home for her entire life. Here’s what she told the Signal about her century in the SCV: “We had ten acres. We had school from grades one through eight at the corner of Newhall and Lyons Avenue,” Laney said. “I like to say I’ve seen things change from the horse and buggy to computers.” AWESOME
- Daily News looks at art in the Santa Clarita Valley and praises the local ProxArt group as well as Brave New World comics on Lyons Avenue. DAILY NEWS
- Annexation Action! Businessman in Valencia Commerce Center says LA County treats him and his business with “benign neglect” while City’s planning commission recommend in a 5-0 vote that Tesoro Del Valle and West Hills join the City
- Also regarding the above, City critics take note: land owners in unincorporated County areas say they prefer County rule because it favors developers
- Captain Paul Becker tells a Sheriff’s Association Fundraiser that “there’s a lot of drug abuse up here,” particularly with black tar heroin, Vicodin and OxyContin. He says 85 percent of the “evils in our community’ relate to drug abuse and gangs SIGNAL
- Hart District looks at saving electricity costs by installing solar panels at its facilities SIGNAL
- At least we’re not the only ones: Starting in the 1950s, the US Navy developed and tested torpedoes in the Morris Dam reservoir in the San Gabriel Valley. And like our Whittaker Bermite site, the Navy’s tests left behind perchlorate in the soils surrounding the lake. The SGV Tribune says the Navy will clean up the site and truck the contaminated dirt up to Kettleman City where it will be disposed of SGV TRIBUNE
- The Signal deserves some applause for its great “Future of Sports in the SCV” series. Particularly interesting are these articles on how popular mixed martial arts has become in the SCV and what the City is trying to do to attract major sporting events like the Amgen Tour, soccer matches and golf tournaments to town (in 2010 we haven’t had any pro-level events) ENTIRE SERIES
- KHTS reviews the Castaic Lake Water Agency’s Water Conservation Garden. Pretty KHTS
- AB 32, California’s progressive and highly-praised climate change bill, has resulted in new jobs. Okay okay, those new jobs are with the California Air Resources Board, the lead agency charged with implementing AB 32 SAC BEE
- 50th Anniversary of Hollywood Walk of Fame LA TIMES
- Governor Schwarzenegger signs Assemblyman Cameron Smyth’s AB 1643 bill which “would make it legal to sell or drink alcohol at a public K-12 school housed on the campus of a college, as long as no children are present. In addition, alcohol could be served only at fundraisers for nonprofits.” Sounds like this would only impact schools like Academy of the Canyons, or am I misreading it? Also there are two other bills by Smyth that were signed, one concerning service animals VECO STAR
- NotaFerryFan’s latest video tackles Laurie Ender and her idea to takeover local libraries, Frank Ferry and Sterling King’s outburst, and me and John B, whom NAFF calls the SCV’s Beavis and Butthead YOU TUBE
- Carole Lutness predicts that if the City takes over our libraries, we will get “minimum wage pseudo-librarians, limited selection and probably a fee-per-book levy to tap into the Los Angeles Public Library system.” SIGNAL LTE
- LTE writer says NYC Mosque a few blocks from Ground Zero is “tasteless, insensitive [and] offensive.” He even says he has a “friend who admits to being a Muslim” (as if that’s a crime now?) and he recognizes that the first amendment guarantees religious freedom, but he’s still outraged about the proposed Mosque SIGNAL LTE
- KCRW’s To the Point show had an excellent show on Friday regarding Breitbart, Shirley Sherrod and conservative/liberal media. One of the panelists on the show was Congressman Brad Sherman, Democrat of the San Fernando Valley who may someday represent the SCV, depending on how Congressional districts get redrawn next year TO THE POINT
- Myers reviews how impossible it would be to undertake a recall effort of the City Council SIGNAL
- Don’t be a sucker, show up and protest at tomorrow’s chloride meeting says the SGINAL
- Cool BIG PICTURE posts shows what we in the Santa Clarita Valley miss during the summer: amazing (but destructive) summer storms BIG PICTURE
Nine years of the Valley’s town square · 2006–2015
Comments (22)