Newhall News

LeeAnn Holmes' battle against the state budget cuts isn't just about the recent reductions to her disabled son's benefits.

He could hear their popping, crackling and booming all around him. He could smell their sulfuric stench out his window.

Members of a Valencia church are walking by faith after one of their own was the victim of a hit-and-run while bicycling and wound up in the hospital with major spinal injuries on the holiday weekend.

Seventy-five pounds of pancake batter mix. About 1,000 pancakes. Seven cases of sausage.

San Francisquito Road in Saugus was shut down during rush hour Tuesday after a man apparently lost control of his pickup truck and slammed into a power pole.

An old-fashioned ice cream social will be held 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday at the Senior Center, 22900 Market St., Newhall.

It's time for bunting and flags, for pancake breakfasts and 5K runs, for fireworks and an old-fashioned parade as the Santa Clarita Valley celebrates what may be its favorite holiday - Independence Day - with festivities all day long Saturday.

Shelley and G. Marshall Hann have lived in the Santa Clarita Valley for 19 years, most of their time was spent in Stevenson Ranch.

Here's a snapshot of vacation Bible school: a pastor wearing a straw jungle hat and close to 50 children waving their arms while singing songs about God.

Sheriff's detectives swept across the Santa Clarita Valley to check in on more than 200 registered sex offenders Friday, looking for convicts who may have illegally moved away or swapped cars without telling police.

The city of Santa Clarita is poised to celebrate the Fourth of July, with events and activities scheduled throughout the day across the city.

The wife and children of a big-rig driver killed in a fiery 2007 pileup in the Newhall Pass are suing the state of California and a trucking company whose driver they blame for the deadly wreck.

Brian Charles' story in Tuesday's Signal mentioning a "revenue neutral" payment of perhaps $3 million annually, perhaps in perpetuity - in exchange for westside unincorporated communities being allowed to have some measure of local government - leaves me outraged.

Most people are familiar with Pilates - a form of exercise that emphasizes the balanced development of the body through core strength, flexibility and awareness in order to support efficient, graceful movement.

Several years ago I attended the visitation for the deceased father-in-law of a co-worker. While the family seemed fairly desolate concerning the death, my Midwestern stoicism and logic found little to connote tragedy.

Police have arrested a San Fernando Valley man on suspicion of kidnapping an 18-year-old woman in North Hollywood and forcing her to drive to Newhall, where he raped her and stole her car.

It is the 21st century and yet there is still no light at Vermont Drive and Lyons Avenue in Newhall.

The Santa Clarita City Council is set to approve tonight a 13-seat committee to oversee the selection of a site for a much-needed materials recovery facility, or MRF .

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.

March 26, 2009 Evan Christopher Conrad, 7 lbs. 5 oz., 20 in., son of Kristin and Brendan Conrad of Valencia.