• Santa’s little helpers at West Ranch High School are quite busy this season.
• Deputies with the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station are holding a DUI checkpoint Friday within city limits.
• Forty students in the Hart School District are National Merit Scholars.
• Winning photographs from the city of Santa Clarita’s photo contest are announced.
• Rainy weather cleared up overnight and made way for sunshine Friday morning.

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