- The City’s Sleight of Hand: I Heart details how the City will portray their new library tax: ”Leaving the LA County Library System means Santa Clarita won’t be able to collect the special tax that helped fund local libraries (about $1.4M each year). The City wants to collect a new tax amounting to $19/parcel, but they’re pitching it as a “tax reduction” because it’s less than the current special tax levied by the County. In short, if Claritans vote no on the “tax reduction,” they’ll pay $0, whereas if they vote yes, they’ll pay $19.” I HEART SCV
- City says its new partnership with the Inland Library Network will give Santa Clarita residents access to 1 million items from other Southern California libraries. The City says that’s more than the COLA Public Library has, but Wikipedia (I know, I know) shows COLAPUBLIB has 15 million items in circulation. CITY PRESS RELEASE
- Speaking of the libraries, the next Public Library committee meeting will be held tonight. SAVE OUR LIBRARIES has a an interesting take on the last meeting
- Huge food truck festival coming to Central Park next month! Interestingly, it looks like it’s being sponsored by the City. SANTA CLARITA FOOD FEST
- Sad story about a 77 year old father of an SCV man who was struck and killed in a hit and run collision Saturday night in North Hollywood. Earl Biggs is the father of a local sportscaster, who is pretty devastated over the death of his father. LAPD Officers arrested a 21 year old Harvard student from Stevenson Ranch who they allege was the hit and run driver, but they released him later and the DA says it doesn’t have the evidence to charge him. The 21 year old’s father insists to the Signal that his son is innocent. SIGNAL 1, SIGNAL 2
- Do we really want to go there? Now Gloria Mercado-Fortine says Joe Messina’s allegations against her are suspicious because Messina’s company has done business with the charter school she works for. I suspect you can throw the “Conflict of Interest” charge in any direction in the SCV and it will stick wherever it lands. SIGNAL
- Three men were arrested after trying to steal refrigerators from newly-constructed town homes in Canyon Country yesterday. Carol Rock’s crime story is PUN-TASTIC
- John Quigly, the guy who camped out in the Old Glory oak tree in Pico Canyon for 70+ days in 2003 has been arrested for pulling a similar stunt in Arcadia NBC 4
- There may have been 2.9 million foreclosures nationwide last year (a 2% increase over 2009), but California, surprisingly, saw a 14% decrease in foreclosures last year. But there’s indications foreclosure activity will increase in California this year LA TIMES
- Robert Rizzo, the disgraced former City Manager of the City of Bell, is working as a parking lot attendant in Huntington Beach. The Times’ Steve Lopez scored the scoop and has a great photo of the former administrator, complete with old man crotch HERE
- A-hole ranchers neighboring the Heart Castle shoot and kill three Zebras. One rancher said the striped animals were “Predators.” He wants to make a rug out of the zebras LA TIMES
- Speaking of scoundrels and a-holes, John Boston goes there, chronicling the SCV’s grifter class, the wining-dining folks who set up shop in town, became the bell of the ball, then jet out of town with thousands, sometimes millions of dollars and a trail of broken hearts and bruised egos. This is why we Heart John Boston First up- VITAL EXPRESS
- Also, Time Ranger this week is not to be missed WRB
A decade of the Valley’s town square · 2006–2015
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