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City unveils new eco-friendly maintenance truck
The city of Santa Clarita will unveil its new VACTOR maintenance truck on Thursday, June 18. The new vehicle will be used to maintain the city's extensive storm drain system, allowing staff to safely take on several more jobs to meet the growing needs of the city's storm drain maintenance program.
Senior Center offers artistic summer classes
Don't let summer school cutbacks cut back on your artistic expression. Join the SCV Senior Center's intergenerational classes in oil, watercolor, and mixed media to learn from the best! The following art classes are available: Mixed Media, Tuesdays 9 a.m.-noon, instructor Mary Lou Carraher; Thursdays 9 a.m.-noon by Peggy Patti; Oil Painting, Tuesdays 6:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m. by Peggy Patti; Wednesdays 9 a.m.-noon by Olga Kaczmar, and Watercolor, Tuesday s 6:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m. by Peggy Patti. ...
Newhall Pool opens with new slide June 12
The city of Santa Clarita's Newhall Pool will officially open to the public Friday, June 12 at 1 p.m. with a brand new 11 foot long, 9 foot tall yellow slide.
Senators Feinstein, Boxer vote to protect kids from tobacco
WASHINGTON -- The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids applauds U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer for voting this week to approve historic legislation that gives the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authority to regulate tobacco products, including the authority to crack down on tobacco marketing and sales to kids.
Reader Meter results, June 5-12, 2009
Here are the results of The-Signal.com's latest Reader Meter poll. The-Signal.com visitors cast a total of 189 votes from late afternoon Friday, June 5 to mid-afternoon Friday, June 12, 2009.
Republicans call for promised military benefits to be paid
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Rep. Howard P. "Buck" McKeon (R-CA), Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee, and Rep. Steve Buyer (R-IN), the Ranking Member of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee, called on Rep. John Spratt (D-SC) to utilize the "reserve funds" he embedded in the House Budget Resolution to pay for key benefits that were promised to and are so richly deserved by America's military personnel and their families, military retirees and veterans. During consideration of ...
Santa Clarita credit rating upgraded to AA+
The city of Santa Clarita's Standard & Poor's credit rating was upgraded this week from AA to AA+, characterizing the city as having "very strong wealth and income levels."
Door-to-door subscription solicitors not legit
Door-to-door sales people who describe themselves as high-school students reportedly are attempting to sell subscriptions to The Signal in the Santa Clarita Valley.
Santa Clarita Performing Arts Center at College of the Canyons unveils new season
To mark College of the Canyons' 40th anniversary and the Santa Clarita Performing Arts Center's fifth, the 2009-2010 season will be filled with music that defined the five decades following 1969, when COC opened.
Cherry pickin’ time
Villa del Sol Sweet Cherry Farms, in Leona Valley, California, is the largest you-pick cherry orchard in Southern California, with more than 3,600 trees.
Lexus of Valencia Jazz & Blues Concert Series kicks off tonight (June 12) on Town Center Drive
By Signal Staff They're going be partying again on Town Center Drive in Valencia tonight, and every Friday night after that for quite awhile.
Playboy Jazz Festival at Hollywood Bowl this weekend (June 13 and 14)
Sax legend Wayne Shorter, Grammy-winning vocalist Patti Austin, soprano sax superstar Kenny G, Latin-jazz kings Pete Escovedo and Oscar Hernandez, New Orleans favorite sons The Neville Brothers and New Birth Jazz Band, and Jimmy Cobb's all-star 50th anniversary tribute to Miles Davis' epochal "Kind of Blue" album are just a few highlights from the stellar lineup performing at the Hollywood Bowl this weekend as part of the 31st annual Playboy Jazz Festival.
Review: 'Imagine That'
Eddie Murphy's new family comedy is a pleasant and unassuming fantasy in which a high-powered investment adviser gets advice from his daughter's imaginary friends. We never see the friends, but we see a great deal of the daughter, and it's a charming performance from newcomer Yara Shahidi.
Review: 'The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3'
There's not much wrong with Tony Scott's "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3" except that there's not much really right about it. Nobody gets terrifically worked up except the special effects people. Oh, John Travolta is angry and Denzel Washington is determined, but you don't sense passion in the performances. They're about behaving, not evoking.
F. Andre Hollings: The failure of Liberalism in California and beyond
Amidst wallowing in the nirvana granted by the all but divine investiture of Barack Obama, liberals have seemingly abandoned a key element of democracy: dissent.
Articles By Author - Signal Staff
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.
