- Final vote counts are in, and as Myers noted, TimBen pulled even further ahead of Laurie Ender in last week’s election and Bob Kellar finished just a few dozen short of Laurie Ender’s record haul in 2008. SIGNAL, KHTS
- Looks like the Bank of Santa Clarita laid off a manager and a founding executive because of disagreements over the growth, direction, and potential merger of the small bank SIGNAL
- Bad collision on Highway 126 yesterday between a big rig and a flat bed truck. Two are injured and transported to the hospital SIGNAL
- The VECO Star has another report on Tuesday’s 38th Assembly District candidate forum at the Newhall Legion post. The question Patricia McKeon answered with an “I have no idea” was asked by Jason Schaff of the Signal; I think in the video you can hear him say “Well that’s at least an honest answer” in response. Also, McKeon called Obamacare a failed European-style single payer system, and Headington said he’s the only moderate in the race VECO STAR
- Really Patricia Blogger finds that Team McKeon (or someone) is trying to promote their candidate on Wikipedia RP BLOG
- Earlier this week, the LA Times released photos of US Army paratroopers posing with dead insurgents and suicide bombers in Afghanistan. When asked about the pictures, Buck McKeon was “seemingly unaware” of the photos and thought the Fox News reporter asking him about them was referring to the notorious 2004 Abu Ghraib pictures FOX NEWS
- SCVNews posted an interesting piece yesterday about the make-up and workings of the Sheriff’s Station Crime Prevention Unit, and it actually looks like a real thing and not just a nice marketing term. The article lists crime zones throughout the SCV and names a coordinator for each zone; in a post today, the Deputy in charge of the zone where I live (SoLy) talks about the crime trends he sees in his area (lots of vehicle burglaries). Nice work LASD SCVNEWS
- Convicted felon arrested at Saugus home after probation officers find him in possession of drug paraphernalia and a sawed-off shotgun SCVNEWS
- Letter writer tells Signal staff they’re out of touch with resident anger over the library takeover and new Newhall library building. “People are talking and the City Council members who don’t listen will be voted out. This is a fact, and this will continue,” she writes. SIGNAL
- President Benjamin Harrison’s train rolled through Saugus this week in 1891. Also find out why Saugus might have been named “Surrey” and read about a famous SCV Lawman named Jack Pilcher, who was killed in a freak accident and whose funeral was “paid for and well-attended by the Ku Klux Klan” TIME RANGER
- Regarding the above: I remember when President Bill Clinton’s helicopter flew over the SCV in 1997. Anyone remember what he was doing there?
- The thin library of published books about the SCV just got a little bit thicker with the forthcoming publication of “LEGENDARY LOCALS OF THE SANTA CLARITA VALLEY.” The book is written by three SCV historians, Dr. Alan Pollack, Kim Stephens and EJ Stephens. Cover art shows several SCV legends, including my favorite, Tiburicio Vasquez, and hopefully will include my second favorite, the Puritanical Henry Clay Needham. Legendary Locals will be released in September FACEBOOK. If you aren’t following Dr. Alan Pollack’s facebook page, be sure to subscribe!
A decade of the Valley’s town square · 2006–2015
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