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Senior Residents Lose Weekly Doughnuts

To Margaret Pettenger, the issue is one of respect: As long as residents of The Willows senior apartment complex, which she manages, disrespect her employees, she’ll withhold their Wednesday morning doughnuts and monthly birthday parties.

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I-5 Lane Closures For Pavement Repairs 10/31

Caltrans will close the following lanes and ramps of the northbound and southbound Golden State Freeway (I-5) from Vista Del Lago (about two miles north of Castaic) to Frazier Park, as part of a one-year, 40-mile project to repair lanes on I-5 damaged from this year’s heavy rainstorms:   From 12:01 a.m. to 5 a.m. Monday, October 31: ·     One ...

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Minority Students Scores Up in SCV

Hispanic, black and low-income students in Santa Clarita Valley schools are improving their scores on the STAR state mandated test, but some still have a way to go to reach the state mandated goal of 800. The William S. Hart Union High School District, comprised of eight high schools and six junior highs, showed African-Americans increasing last year’s scores by 20 ...

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County Reconsiders Shelter Site

The location of the Santa Clarita Valley homeless shelter is still up in the air as a county official withdrew his support for the use of the Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic.  “The (Castaic Area) Town Council voted 4-3 to oppose having a temporary winter shelter in the parking lot of the Pitchess Detention Center,” said Tony Bell, a spokesman for ...

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I-5 Lane Closures For Pavement Repairs 10/31-11/10

Caltrans will close the following lanes, ramps and connectors of the Golden State Freeway: DAILY, MONDAY, OCTOBER 31 THROUGH THURSDAY, NOVEMBER3: · 5 a.m. to 2 p.m. – One lane of northbound I-5 from State Route 210 to State Route 14 · 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. – The Chatsworth Street on-ramp to south I-5 · 9 a.m. to 3 ...

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