Hats off to the holidays

A hundred Sulphur Springs Community School first-graders tip their cowboy hats as they sing "Christmas Time's a Comin'" during the "Holiday Hats" presentation for family and friends at Sulphur Springs Community School in Canyon Country on Wednesday.

Season’s greetings from local students

Our Lady of Perpetual Help students, from left, fourth-grader Pierce Thomsen, seventh-grader Aidan Brown, sixth-grader Alex Bordbar, eighth-grader Kevin Wheeler and third-grader Grace Alcedo assemble a blanket for the homeless, at Our Lady of Perpetual Help School in Santa Clarita on Friday.

Healing hands raised in celebration

The candle-lighting ceremony at the Santa Clarita Performing Arts Center at College of the Canyons Valencia campus.

West Side Story: Holiday Home Tour raises money for NICU

The annual Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital Holiday Home Tour was held on Saturday.

A kaleidoscope of colors

Trees dressed in their fall colors drop their leaves on Anza Drive, near Scott Road, in Valencia earlier this week.

Pigskin and poultry

Rio Norte Junior High School seventh graders Gracie Rusk, left, and Julie Smith, dressed in their Turkey Bowl costumes, run up and down the sidelines during the ninth annual Turkey Bowl football game among eighth graders at Rio Norte Junior High School in Santa Clarita on Wednesday.

Capitol Christmas Tree stops at Saugus Speedway

A healthy appetite for learning

Students learned about the cardiovascular system by seeing, feeling and hearing real hearts and by monitoring their own hearts as they exercise in Meadows Elementary School.

A rose by any other name...

Attendees perused the more than 500 varieties of roses on display at the18th annual Rose Show presented by the Santa Clarita Valley Rose Society at Hart Hall Newhall on Saturday.

Shredding of all shapes and sizes

Volunteers from The Master's College Micaiah Mitchell, left, and Joshua Bastin carry a television past a pile of computers stacked and wrapped for recycling at the Shred Day event where electronics, prescription-drug disposal and document shredding were offered by the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's Station and the city of Santa Clarita at the Westfield Valencia Town Center parking lot on Saturday.

Congressman chats with classes

Congressman Howard "Buck" McKeon, second right, chats with seventh grade Latin teacher Jenny Llamas, right, and her class at Trinity Classical Academy in Santa Clarita on Thursday.

Costumed runners go on Monster Dash in Valencia

Construction continues on Newhall Public Library

A workman on scaffolding walks past a Lyons Ave Road road sign as work continues on the Newhall Public Library at the corner of Lyons Ave and Main Street in Newhall on Wednesday.

Rosh Hashana preparation

A sign of her efforts

Big rig tips over in Acton

Sounds abound at Newhall Art Slam

Bowman takes a bow

Valencia graduates valedictory

A total of 694 Valencia High School graduates walked Friday at College of the Canyons in Valencia. Student James Edwards represented his class-of which 125 students graduated with honors-as the speaker. Photos by Dan Watson.

SCV Man and Woman of the Year named

Elizabeth Hopp and Steve Sturgeon were named the Santa Clarita Valley Woman of the Year and Man of the Year, respectively, at the Hyatt Regency Valencia on Friday evening.

Mike Antonovich visits SCVi

Santa Clarita Valley International charter school hosted Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich on Wednesday as the Los Angeles County elected official toured the school.

Downtown Newhall Art Slam goes green

Local residents participate in the "Go Green, Get Green" recycled art contest during the Art Slam event held on Main Street in Newhall on Thursday night.

Students sing original musical composition after school