Archive By Author - Signal Staff
Budget solution
Wow! Is the Governator angry at California voters? We didn't cause the deficit. Schwarzenegger and his two predecessors and the last 10 Legislatures caused this mess. For at least the last 20 years, the jerks in the Legislature have been using it for their own personal campaign funds. You want to balance the budget? Go through every law passed in the last 20 years and dump the ones that benefit the Legislature and governor's office. ...
Keep our air clean
We need to change the environment of the Santa Clarita Valley. There is trouble with the atmosphere due to the many construction projects here. We should stop building houses. We already have too many.
Students capture a moment in time
With help from teachers and administrators, Bridgeport Elementary School's class of 2009 prepared and buried a time capsule made up of modern-day items Thursday as a keepsake for future generations.
New event business group aims to give back
Local residents and business owners Yoti Telio of Santa Clarita Photographic Studio and Jen O'Sullivan of Jen O'Sullivan Boutique Wedding Photography joined together to create a new business group in the Santa Clarita Valley named Event Pros International.
The Signal.com's Daybreak: June 9, 2009
Hello, Santa Clarita Valley! Welcome to The-Signal.com's Daybreak, your point of entry for the day, and a quick journey through the past, present and future. Let the adventure begin:
Leona Valley Winery hosts annual summer wine fest Saturday
Leona Valley Winery hosts their second annual Rock the Fault Line Vineyard Celebration from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday, June 13 at the Leona Valley Vineyards, 90th St. W., Palmdale 93551.
COC's first Auto Tech grad sails into new career
In the roughly three years since College of the Canyons introduced its Automotive Technology curriculum, the program has grown in both breadth and enrollment, gained industry acknowledgment and support - and most recently produced its first graduate.
Six Flags, SCV Auto Dealers team up as VIA B2B Title Sponsor
The Valley Industrial Association of Santa Clarita announces Six Flags Magic Mountain and the Santa Clarita Valley Auto Dealers Association have teamed to become Title Sponsor of VIA's Business-to-Business Industry Show on June 10 and 11 in Santa Clarita.
COC land surveying program graduates first student
As an engineering student at Ventura College, Joey Waltz didn't like the idea of working indoors. Fortunately, when a professor mentioned surveying as a career option during a civil engineering lecture, Waltz was paying attention.
Program converts paramedics to nurses
College of the Canyons has debuted a program that allows paramedics to further their education so that they can transition into the nursing profession.
Traffic diverted in Old Town Newhall for construction
Beginning Monday, June 8 the northbound lanes of Main Street will be re-opened to through traffic between 5th Street and Lyons Avenue in Old Town Newhall.
Photo Extra: Memorial Garden Tour
Memorial Garden Tour accepted donations to benefit the T.A.P.S. and Wounded Warrior Project on Sunday.
Subscription drive not authorized
The William S. Hart Union High School District has received reports of teens going door-to-door selling newspaper subscriptions to help the local Regional Occupational Program (ROP) career technical classes. The ROP program has not authorized such a fundraising program and local ROP students are not benefiting, according to Jan Burns, ROP specialist with the district.
Tim Myers: For our daughter on her graduation
Sitting on the home side of Cougar Stadium at College of the Canyons on the cool May evening, looking out at the sea of purple and gold, many parents would simply state they did not believe this day would ever come.
Engaged: Derek MacCulloch and Lynn Stift
Monica and Michael Stift of Saugus are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Samantha Lynn Stift to Derek James MacCulloch of Santa Clarita.
Articles By Author - Signal Staff
Haiti's 'Baby Doc' summoned to court after no-show
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - A Haitian judge on Thursday summoned Jean-Claude Duvalier to appear in court after the former dictator defied an order to attend a hearing to determine whether he should again face charges for human rights abuses committed during the nearly 15 years of his brutal regime.
Oscar guy MacFarlane aims to perk up stodgy awards
LOS ANGELES (AP) - You think the Academy Awards are boring? Try the nominations. They only last a few minutes, but it's generally a sleepy academy suit and a sleepy starlet droning a list of names at 5:30 in the morning.
Georgia plane aborted landing, hit utility pole
THOMSON, Ga. (AP) - A small private jet carrying a surgeon and members of his clinic staff aborted its landing at a Georgia airport before it hit a 60-foot utility pole and crashed in a flaming wreck, killing five people onboard and injuring two, federal authorities said Thursday.
Pistorius granted bail pending murder trial
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) - In an agonizingly slow announcement, a magistrate allowed Oscar Pistorius to go free on bail Friday, nine days after the Paralympian was arrested in the Valentine's Day killing of his girlfriend.
Police: Hotel altercation sparked Vegas shooting
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Bullets were flying from a black Range Rover at a gray Maserati as the vehicles raced toward a red light on the Las Vegas Strip.
4 stabbed outside downtown LA nightspot
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Four young adults have been stabbed after a feud spilled out of a downtown Los Angeles nightspot.
More tests needed in LA hotel water tank death
LOS ANGELES (AP) - More testing must be done to determine the cause of death of a 21-year-old Canadian tourist whose body was found wedged in a water tank atop a downtown Los Angeles hotel, authorities said Thursday.
Letters: A socialist by any other name is... a socialist
Leftists of late have become very defensive about being called socialist in their ideology, as typified by Kevin Buck's column (Feb. 19, "Straw men live in glass houses").
Alice Khosravy: California is at bottom for business
Just a few short days ago the lanterns fell, bringing an end to Chinese New Year season for 2013.
