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Your Money: Choosing a Business Entity

The following factors should be taken into consideration when figuring on which form of business will best serve your purposes: •    How much of your own personal assets are invested •    How much capital you have or the need for outside investors •    Your ability to attract outside investors •    Tax and licensing requirements •    The time commitment necessary to ...

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Your Money: How To Promote Your Business Web Site

These days, small businesses need an Internet presence. Today’s customers expect a company to have a well-designed Web site that provides product information and details about services. If you’re a small business owner who can sell at least some products online, customers will often reward you with increased revenue and word-of-mouth advertising. However, even the most inviting and easy-to-navigate Web ...

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Ten Children Found In Two Castaic Drug Houses

Two homes in Castaic were raided yesterday after months of surveillance by narcotics detectives who suspected both locations were involved in drug trafficking. After serving search warrants at a home in the 27500 block of Violin Canyon Drive and another at a home in the 31400 block of Arrow Point, both in Castaic, detectives arrested three men and one woman. ...

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Transit Deputy Involved In Collision In Newhall

A reserve sheriff’s deputy assigned to the Transit Division Training Unit was involved in a minor traffic accident while enroute home today. According to Lt. Robert Lewis, watch commander at the Santa Clarita Valley sheriff’s station, the deputy was in the area of Newhall Avenue and Railroad Avenue shortly after 3 p.m. when the front end of his motorcycle was ...

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Cleanroom Facility Unveiled At College Of The Canyons

Providing a state of the art facility to train students interested in pursuing careers in the sciences and learning more about nanoscience and nanotechnology, this week College of the Canyons administrators officially unveiled the college’s new Emerging Technologies Instrumentation Laboratory and Cleanroom facility.   The Emerging Technologies Institute at College of the Canyons was established to provide participants a basic ...

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Three Major Recalls Underway

Three products; two food and one medicinal, are the subject of recalls, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Markets are recalling pumpkin cheesecake pies due to undeclared pecans, which could cause a reaction to those with nut allergies. Certain lots of Brooklyn’s Best brand smoked Nova salmon are being recalled because of a possible ...

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Caltrans Closures For I-5/SR14 Carpool Lane Project

The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) will close the following lanes, ramps, connectors and collector roads of the Antelope Valley Freeway (SR-14), the Foothill Freeway (I-210) and the Golden State Freeway (I-5) as part of a $161-million improvement project to construct High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV or carpool) lanes and a direct HOV lane connector at the I-5/SR-14 interchange. There will ...

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A Christmas Carol: Proving Once You Go Muppet You Can Never Go Back

  One of the most timeless and arguably overdone stories of all time is Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol”. The story is simple, and yet it embodies the true spirit of Christmas. There have been so many renditions of this timeless tale that I can only imagine how making each version of “A Christmas Carol” unique must be an arduous ...

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City Will Weigh New Commercial Development In Circle J

The Santa Clarita City Council will have some business to clear up at Tuesday’s meeting, before the City enters the Thanksgiving holiday. The Council will vote on a potential amendment to the City’s General Plan, which would allow for a zoning change that will make a new development in Circle J Ranch possible. The 35,818 square-foot project plans three buildings ...

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SCV Outdoor Report: Scattered Near And Far…

Who has not stopped to observed wind-bourn seeds? As a child growing up in Wisconsin, I watched my father carefully break open dry milkweed pods. I remember laughing with delight as a gust of wind picked up and carried away those silky, parachute-like seeds. Some seeds landed near my feet, but others travelled further than my eye could see. As ...

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