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Edison offers free 'Go Solar' info session
ROSEMEAD, Calif. - Southern California Edison (SCE) will help its residential customers "follow the sun" with a free session on the California Solar Initiative (CSI) program and the incentives it offers to homeowners who decide to "go solar."
'Identity: An Exhibition of You' opens May 22 at Science Center
LOS ANGELES -- Hair color, sense of humor, friends -- what are you made of? Explore how the physical, psychological and social elements in your life unite in "Identity: An Exhibition of You."
Frozen yogurt wars heat up
Frozen yogurt might just be the new ice cream - at least if you talk to the right groups of young and health-conscious people.
Students celebrate the planet
Rio Vista Elementary School students celebrated Earth Day last month with an Environmental Awareness Day that featured workshops, demonstrations from professionals and nature hikes.
Placerita students ask, 'Who killed Elvis?'
"Who Killed Elvis?" That's the question that everyone will be asking during the hilarious mystery-comedy performed by the Placerita Junior High School Drama Department.
What is your favorite book?
First place My favorite book in the world is the one that doesn't have a title. It's my dad's book. He inherited the book from my great grandfather. It is a book written in Armenian language. My dad knows how to speak Armenian so he translates it into American. It's a fabulous book about my grandfather's childhood. Of course, he wrote it. I wish my grandpa was alive to tell me the book. The book ...
High School hockey heads to postseason
As the regular season of the Valencia Ice Station High School Hockey season comes to a close, the four local club teams will head into the first round of postseason play on Monday with very different perspectives.
Mike Ascolese: Farewell to a fallen friend
Thursday was the memorial service and funeral for Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy Robert Corrales, who was stationed at the Santa Clarita Courthouse for more than a decade and died April 23.
Backyard snakebite kills dog
Just before midnight Friday, Wil Maxham lay awake, terrified that his phone would ring. The 70-year-old Saugus man spent the evening rushing his dog, Ebony, to animal hospitals seeking treatment for the animal after a rattlesnake in his back yard sunk its fangs into the little black terrier mix's nose. None of the veterinarians he visited had the expensive antivenin that could have counteracted the snake's powerful toxins. So he left Ebony at an emergency ...
Deafening silence
I had the opportunity to speak to a member of Assemblyman Smyth's staff recently. My concerns were many, but with one underlying theme: When is a conservative not a conservative?
McFarland wrong again
Bruce McFarland's Opinion column "America: Love it or leave it" (The Signal, April 21) was a joke.
Gary Horton: Local robber taunts California to change
Everything financial is in turmoil. In this recession, what we're really facing is an urgent, pressing need to renew ourselves, our businesses and our government. We're challenged with doing more with less, to wring out waste and inefficiencies from everything. California, in particular, faces an Armageddon-like budget crisis. Without heavy new taxes, drastic cuts or seriously substantial reform, California's budget is like a passenger train speeding its partying passengers straight off the tracks into the ...
City, county tax clarification
I read your article "City boundaries unclear" in the Monday, May 3 edition of The Signal, which explored how aware residents are about the city and county boundaries.
Zonta offers fifth 'LifeForward' workshop
Local women looking for a job or trying to build a successful career will find a timely source of information at the fifth of a series of LifeForward workshops sponsored by Zonta Club of the Santa Clarita Valley.
'Relay for Life' final team captain meeting runs May 19
The final team captain meeting for the 2009 "Relay for Life" fundraiser is set for Tuesday, May 19 at 7 p.m. at North Park Elementary School.
Articles By Author - Signal Staff
Rand Paul: Immigration reform needs conservatives
WASHINGTON (AP) - Tea party favorite Sen. Rand Paul said Tuesday that the nation's illegal immigrants should be able to become citizens eventually, but amid a furor from conservative activists on the explosive issue he quickly sought to make clear that, while they would not be sent home, they couldn't get in line in front of anyone else.
Costs of US wars linger for more than 100 years
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - If history is any judge, the U.S. government will be paying for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars for the next century as service members and their families grapple with the sacrifices of combat.
Pope Francis: Protect the poor and the Earth
VATICAN CITY (AP) - After a week marked by acts of simplicity and openness, Pope Francis finally let his words do the talking as he officially began his stewardship of the Catholic Church on Tuesday.
Javier Hernandez: The Czar of Cigar -- 888 Claro
Two weeks ago we reviewed Miami 8&11 from Padilla Cigars. Today it's Luck of the Irish, as the 888 Claro is green.
Health officials: 1 in 50 school kids have autism
NEW YORK (AP) - A government survey of parents says 1 in 50 U.S. schoolchildren has autism, surpassing another federal estimate for the disorder.
Gary Horton: More residents should find the Master Chorale
Think "inspiration." Think "spiritually beautiful." Think "melodically breathtaking."
Jim Mullen: Village Idiot
I know there are couples who enjoy cooking together and make it look like a well-rehearsed ballet. They savor the aroma of their secret recipe for wild salmon over lemon couscous, stir each other's soups and sample each other's sauces.
Some more equal than others
I used to live in Santa Clarita. I moved to the Bay Area about nine years ago but still check in on The Signal occasionally.
Today in the SCV: Wednesday, March 20, 2013
'Teen Scene Plugged-In' event
Joe Klocko: The conundrum: supply and demand, wages and the skills gap
Most people understand the basic economic principle of supply and demand and incorporate it into their daily decisions. They may not do it consciously, but economic decisions are made every day by each and every one of us.
