 COC-bound Teen Reunited with Live Savers When Los Angeles County firefighters from Light Force 104 and Squad 111 first saw Santa Clarita teen Matthew Scalice, he was lying face-up on a pool deck, his legs dangling in the water. Nearly three years later, Matthew is a high school graduate. He plans to attend College of the Canyons in his first step toward a career as a nurse. READ STORY |
Portraits of Fallen Heroes On Display at Town Center Just over 160 small portraits line the walls of Space 160 on Town Center Drive in Valencia as a memorial to the soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines from California who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country in Iraq and Afghanistan. Among the faces on the walls are eight of the Santa Clarita Valley's fallen heroes. |
Body Found in Jakes Way Area; Detectives Investigate
The Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's Station received a call at 9:13 a.m. Sunday about a deceased male adult near a railroad bridge close to Jakes Way in Santa Clarita.
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1 Dead, 4 Injured in Crash Near Pyramid Lake 
One person is dead and four were injured Sunday when a car went off of the southbound side of Interstate 5 north of Castaic near Pyramid Lake.
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Cars & Chili: It's How the Elks Roll for Disabled Kids
 Hundreds of people from around the Santa Clarita Valley came out to Santa Clarita Elks Lodge 2379 on Saturday for the Elks' annual Car and Bike Show and Chili Cook Off.
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 Saugus School Board Takes Next Step Toward Voting Districts
Saugus Union School District officials authorized payment of $7,000 to Compass Demographics, which will draw up voting district boundaries that will be put into place for the next governing board election. READ STORY |
 Council Tuesday: Apartments Planned for Newhall Avenue Thirty apartment units, 13 of them income-restricted, are planned for the old Caltrans yard on Newhall Avenue. A later phase of development would replace the Town & County Liquor shopping center with apartments. That and more in this week's COUNCIL AGENDA |
 Today in SCV History: June 8, 1851
Newhall prohibitionist Henry Clay Needham born in Kentucky.
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New Old Stuff: Valiant Servant to City, County, Country Born in Madagascar in 1924 to a family of Lutheran missionaries, George Ludvig Pederson served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. In 1954 he joined the L.A. County Sheriff's Department, retiring as commander of the Pitchess jail complex in 1984. An early promoter of cityhood, he served on the City Council from 1992-96 and was affectionately known as Santa Clarita's "earthquake mayor" in 1994, when the SCV was devastated by the Northridge earthquake. An ardent community volunteer, he was named SCV Man of the Year in 1997. George Pederson died May 9. His life was celebrated this past Saturday at Christ Lutheran Church in Valencia. |
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