- Councilwoman Marsha McLean posts on SCV LTE Facebook group that the I-5 Toll lane proposal Metro has been pushing is moving along, despite widespread opposition. "Apparently Metro has not heard those that have spoken out at the local meetings," she remarked SCV LTE
- Councilman Boydston is upset about the toll lane proposal too, likening it to double taxation. Perry Smith has a good report at KHTS and Luke Money has more at the SIGNAL
- Love it: It was a foregone conclusion that the new Castaic High School would be named...Castaic High School, but at last night's Hart Board meeting there was "some discussion as to whether Castaic is two syllables with the second syllable pronounced "steak" or three syllables with the last syllable rhyming with tick." I'm firmly in the Cah-stay-ick camp and this debate is as old & entertaining as the hills. SIGNAL
- A burglar broke into the garage of Santa Clarita home, stole some stuff, then realized he was being recorded on a camera, so he stole the camera too. But he didn't steal the recording device. You always have to take the recording device, don't you know? Deputies want help identifying the bald, tattooed burglar. SCVNEWS
- The City has completed its annexation of three movie ranches and south Sand Canyon and created an incentive-rich "Movie Ranch Overlay District." The new district will benefit productions by reducing "cost permits and expediting permit processing time." That's on top of the City's already generous film-incentive programs. PRESS RELEASE
- SCV-based homebuilder Williams Homes announces it will build 79 single family homes near Sierra Highway & Golden Valley. The homebuilder cleverly survived the recession and is finding success building homes on foreclosed home building sites that have already been leveled and prepared. SIGNAL
- "A pretty shameful day," is how President Obama described the defeat of even a modest, scaled-back gun background check program in the US Senate. LA TIMES
- Following his visit to China, Governor Jerry Brown wants to let the "bulldozers roll" and massively reform CEQA, the landmark California environmental law hated and cherished by many. His own party is in revolt against the idea. TIMES
- Where has all the porno gone? Zero adult film permits have been issued this year in Los Angeles County in the wake of the new law requiring male porn actors to wear condoms. Meanwhile, in Ventura County, residents are hearing funny things: ""It's really disturbing," said Tim Gray, a 56-year-old father of four. "We were eating dinner and we heard these loud sounds outside, like something really bad had happened. I went outside and heard, well, the typical sounds you'd hear in a porn movie. It was echoing all over the neighborhood. Later I asked my daughter if she heard it. She said 'yeah, I was doing my homework and I just turned up the music to drown it out.' " LA TIMES
- COC Canyon Country to host public Star Party on Friday, May 3. I think Jupiter will still be visible by then. COUGAR NEWS
- The word Saugus is an Indian word for "sandy spit of land" (quite appropriate even today), Sloan Canyon is named after a kind and gentle family man who often opened his home to strangers. And the 1970s were a brutal time in the SCV with "puppies being strangled" and a husband slaying his wife. All that and more, including a Newhall youth who had built a mortar weapon, in this week's TIME RANGER
Nine years of the Valley’s town square · 2006–2015
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