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McGrath Project debuts new CD at Knitting Factory

Santa Clarita-based rock band The McGrath Project debuted its second CD with a live performance at The Knitting Factory in Hollywood Saturday night, Aug. 8.

August 09, 2009 | By Signal Staff | SCV Raw


Revamp health care

Corky Cooper's letter in The Signal ("Health care needs public option," July 30, 2009) prompts me to try to clarify some serious misunderstandings.

August 09, 2009 | By Albert Bigelow Valencia | Read Letters to Editor


Tim Myers: Would a new Castaic high be a rump?

When the Myers family moved to the SCV in 1996, a short-lived movement arose to make the Castaic Union School District a kindergarten-through-12th-grade unified school district by withdrawing the Castaic Unified School District students from the Hart district, where most of the CUSD students fed into then-two-year-old Valencia High School.

August 09, 2009 | Signal Staff | Columnists


Nicole Shellcroft: ‘You can’t operate a hotline for 12 hours a day’

The Domestic Violence Center of the Santa Clarita Valley is in dire straits. As a result of the governor's line-item veto last week - which eliminated 100 percent of state funding for domestic violence center programs - the Santa Clarita Valley Domestic Violence Center lost nearly half of its annual budget and is facing the loss of crucial domestic violence services to residents of the Santa Clarita Valley. In 2008, the Domestic Violence Center served ...

August 09, 2009 | Signal Staff | Columnists


Howard P. McKeon: The importance of Gitmo

Last month, I had the opportunity to lead a congressional fact-finding mission to America's detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and spend some time with the men and women of the military serving there.

August 09, 2009 | Signal Staff | Columnists


Your Community

Dates to Watch Aug. 15 John Dean, whose key testimony before Congress as counsel to President Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal riveted the nation, will speak 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 15 at 6 p.m. at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, 24901 Orchard Village Road, Valencia. The Democratic Alliance for Action is sponsor of this event, which is free to the public. For updates, visit www.daa.org or call (661) 309-4DAA ((661) 309-4322). Aug. 16 The ...

August 09, 2009 | By Signal Staff | SCV Life


Searching for family

The Brittany Foundation, a nonprofit humane organization dedicated to the rescue and rehabilitation of homeless dogs, has several dogs for adoption:

August 09, 2009 | By Signal Staff | SCV Life


Wedding: Smith-Kellar

Canyon Country residents Kathy Keysor Smith and Bob Kellar were married June 13 at a private residence in Sand Canyon.

August 09, 2009 | By Signal Staff | Weddings


Sweet Charity: SCV Youth Project cake auction

The SCV Youth Project Sweet Charity Cake Auction and Competition was held at the College of the Canyons Culinary Institute on Town Center Drive on Saturday. Proceeds will benefit the youth and family outreach services of the organization. For full coverage of the event, see Thursday's About Town section in The Signal.

August 09, 2009 | By Signal Staff | Santa Clarita Valley News


Engagement: Abejon-Susdorf

Joseph and Jill Abejon of Valencia are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Kelsey Abejon to Stephen Susdorf of Newhall.

August 09, 2009 | By Signal Staff | Engagements


Chinese exchange students find temporary home in SCV

The Santa Clarita Valley is providing 16 exchange students from China the chance to learn about the many facets of American culture.

August 09, 2009 | By Evin Giglio For The Signal | Santa Clarita Valley News


Community scrapbook: Shannon Sirk

Saugus High School graduate Shannon Sirk was awarded a Ph.D. in Molecular and Medical Pharmacology from the University of California, Los Angeles on June 11. Recognized as a National Merit Scholar while at Saugus High, she graduated as the number one student in her class in 1997 and entered Occidental College on a Presidential Scholarship.

August 09, 2009 | By Signal Staff | SCV Life


Community scrapbook: Cassandra Neilson

Cassandra Rochelle Neilson, of Stevenson Ranch was named to the President's List of Mercer University's Tift College of Education for the Spring 2009 semester.

August 09, 2009 | By Signal Staff | SCV Life


Community scrapbook: Ava A. Schultz

Ava A. Schultz, a recent graduate from Valencia of the Virginia Military Institute, who majored in International Studies, was named to the Dean's List for the second semester of academic year 2008-2009.

August 09, 2009 | By Signal Staff | SCV Life


Football is not superior

After a recent Google search, I came to realize there was a response in your fine paper by Jim McElvain, of Saugus, ("Of winners, losers and American sports," The Signal, Dec. 18, 2008) to my request for more coverage of local youth soccer games by The Mighty Signal ("Boston will boost revenue," The Signal, Dec. 17, 2008).

August 09, 2009 | By Dan Donihue Castaic | Columnists


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Pistorius: Thought girlfriend was a robber

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) - Oscar Pistorius told a packed courtroom Tuesday that he shot his girlfriend to death by mistake, thinking she was a robber. The prosecutor called it premeditated murder.

February 19, 2013 | By Associated Press | Signal AP


'Argo,' 'Zero Dark Thirty' win at Writers Guild

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The CIA thrillers "Argo" and "Zero Dark Thirty" have won top screenplay honors from the Writers Guild of America.

February 19, 2013 | By The Associated Press | Signal AP


Today in the SCV: Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013

Today is Tuesday, Feb. 19, the 50th day of 2013. There are 315 days left in the year.

February 19, 2013 | By Signal Staff | Santa Clarita Valley News


Marriage and the meaning of the word

"Marriage" is shorthand for a specific legal arrangement between a man and a woman, just as "corporation" or "limited partnership" is a specific legal arrangement between shareholders, business partners, etc.

February 19, 2013 | Rob Kerchner Valencia | Read Letters to Editor


Kevin Buck: Straw men live in glass houses

Webster's dictionary has several different definitions for the word socialism. The one conservative fear and loathe the most is:

February 19, 2013 | Signal Staff | Columnists


Tom Purcell: A nail in the coffin of Americans' rights

oy, do I feel sorry for smokers these days.

February 19, 2013 | Signal Staff | Columnists


Wrong about The Signal

I was annoyed and saddened by a comment demeaning the Signal: "The Signal is biased, ignorant and often inept at reporting news."

February 19, 2013 | Lois Eisenberg Valencia | Read Letters to Editor


HOA still recovering months after paint crime

Vandals who hopped a North Valencia HOA pool fence last summer and dumped seven gallons of paint into the pool and hot tub, causing more than $300,000 damage, are still at large.

February 19, 2013 | By Jim Holt Signal Senior Staff Writer | Santa Clarita Valley News


Economic conference returns to Santa Clarita

The third annual Santa Clarita Economic and Real Estate Outlook conference is taking place Thursday, Feb. 21 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Hyatt Regency Valencia.

February 19, 2013 | By Signal Staff | Local Business


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