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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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Searching for family
The Brittany Foundation, a nonprofit humane organization dedicated to the rescue and rehabilitation of homeless dogs, has several dogs for adoption:
Wedding: Smith-Kellar
Canyon Country residents Kathy Keysor Smith and Bob Kellar were married June 13 at a private residence in Sand Canyon.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
Articles By Author - Signal Staff
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.
'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.
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.
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.
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:
Tom Purcell: A nail in the coffin of Americans' rights
oy, do I feel sorry for smokers these days.
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."
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.
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.
