- * New County library for Stevenson Ranch? That’s what County Librarian Margaret Donellan Todd says in an LTE to the Signal, saying that Supervisor Antonovich “recently announced that a new library will be constructed in Stevenson Ranch with interim service established until the new library is ready.” Now the County will have Acton/Agua Dulce, Castaic, and a Stevenson Ranch Library, forming a pincer around the City of Santa Clarita and its nascent 3-branch City library system. Cracks are forming in the City’s library plans and this s*** just got real. SIGNAL
- LA County Superivsors -with Mike Antonovich dissenting- voted yesterday to ban plastic bags at grocery stores and shops in unincorporated LA County territories. The ban will cover some 1,000 stores in those areas by 2012 and will require shoppers to bring their own bags to stores or pay $0.10 for a paper bag. One 60 year old SCV man told the Signal he’ll never carry canvas bags to the store because it’s “sissy” to do so LA TIMES, SIGNAL
- 51,000 sq. ft. expansion of COC Library underway. Once built-out, the expanded library will feature over 100 computer workstations, an art gallery area and other amenities SIGNAL, KHTS
- Who’s going to get MRFed? Committee narrows down MRF locations to three spots: Newhall’s Gate-King area, the Hondo Oil Refinery on Sierra Highway, and the Saugus Industrial center off Railroad Avenue. Another spot on Sierra Highway that prompted outrage from Canyon Country residents will not be MRFed after all SIGNAL
- Or maybe not. The Canyon Country Advisory Committee gets down in the weeds on MRF site selection WRB
- Transit strike averted as Teamster drivers sign new contract with MV Transportation, the City’s transit contractor. Drivers get paid between $10 and $18 an hour and their benefits include a 401k plan and “employee-only medical” coverage SIGNAL
- A Santa Clarita real estate agent tells a Las Vegas newspaper that the foreclosure documentation problem slowing down foreclosures and harming the housing industry is being blown out of proportion. “All that will come of this is another delay in the housing recovery. We need to stop playing with it and let it go through the process.” REVIEW JOURNAL
- Meanwhile, a man who does “securitization audits” created a flow chart to try to find out who actually holds the mortgage on his house. It took the auditor over a year to create the chart and a lot of arrows lead to a place called “Black hole” SOME BLOG
- SacBee learns that nearly two dozen California state legislators, including our own Cameron Smyth, were at an expenses-paid conference with lobbyist/corporate types in Maui when Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger called a special session to deal with the latest budget crisis. The Bee couldn’t get names of the legislators who were at the conference so they called the hotel. SACBEE
- Antonovich Deputy, Paul Novak, gets top job at LAFCO, the Local Agency Formation Committee, the group which processes and approves/denies annexation requests SIGNAL, KHTS
- Santa Clarita homeless shelter opening a few weeks away COUGAR NEWS
- County Planners kill several small projects in SCV due to inactivity. Most of the developments were “mom and pop” type projects, small multi-tenant projects on little plots of land in unincorporated county areas SIGNAL
- Former Ventura County Sheriff’s Deputy who lives in Santa Clarita gets jail time for sexting and molesting a teenage girl in Ventura. He will serve 210 days in jail VECO STAR
- Gary Horton’s moving tale about how he almost ran over a young mother and her child while glancing down at his cell phone. “Still stopped at the crosswalk, the driver saw the mother fall to her knees at the plaza, hugging her daughter closely. She had just recognized how closely she and her daughter had come to true tragedy. The driver saw them and felt intense guilt and shame — and relief that he had not caused such harm.” SIGNAL
- Church group to host smalls food truck event LD
- LA Times has a preview of the new cars that will be showcased at the Los Angeles Auto Show LA TIMES
- Letter writer wants Creekside road to become family-friendly destination where families can bring their kids to impress upon them the importance and benefits of car culture. “Then since purchasing a used or new vehicle is often a family decision, I would bring families down to Creekside. Offer the vacant spaces to local fundraising groups, golf practicing and/or a pitch and putt layout with a small enclosed driving net. Soccer contests, mobile electronics demonstrations, roadster showdowns, what’s up with NASCAR, new cars on display. Give each dealership its own special day to show off its models with small cars for kids to drive. ” SIGNAL
A decade of the Valley’s town square · 2006–2015
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