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On Your Mark, Get Set To Fight Hunger

Charity run/walk to support SCV Food Pantry Whether you’re interested in setting a personal best, or just looking for a nice Sunday stroll, you’ll get your chance this Sunday when the SCV Food Pantry hosts its 16th Annual 5k Run Against Hunger.   Starting at 8:00 a.m., runners and walkers will start out from Newhall Park, heading down and back ...

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Creature Feature: Werewolves Are The Tommy Lee Of Monsters

Excess, pure unadulterated carnage surrounds this creature of the night. When it comes to the things that go bump in the night, perhaps there are none that have evoked more terror, more bloodshed, than werewolves. The mystic roots of werewolves run back to ancient Greece, when Lycaon, king of Arcadia, was turned into a wolf after trying to trick Zeus. ...

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Mobile Production Studio To Visit Elementary Schools

The Santa Clarita Performing Arts Center at College of the Canyons, the Mary Pickford Institute and the Found Penny Foundation are teaming up to bring a mobile, state-of-the-art, digital production studio to three local elementary schools during the next six weeks.  This is part of an expanding K-12 Arts Education Outreach program designed to provide children hands-on opportunities in a ...

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Mission Valley Bank Restates Year-To-Date Earnings

Accounting error corrected, bank officials say portfolio is strong. Mission Valley Bancorp, the parent company of Mission Valley Bank, has announced that it will restate its earnings for the first half of 2009 to show a smaller net income for the period ending June 2009. The Company will now report $45,000 in year-to-date after-tax income as of June 2009, rather ...

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Scholarship Endowed In Memory Of Cyclist Novotny

The College of the Canyons Foundation has received a donation of more than $13,000 from Western Filter, a division of Donaldson Company, which when combined with matching funds from the Foundation for California Community Colleges will establish a permanent scholarship endowment for students pursuing careers in manufacturing technology at the college.   The donation from Donaldson is the college’s first ...

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Pair Of High School Girls Golfers Share Newhall Land Cup Title

It looks like there’s some competition in high school golf for the Newhall Land Cup individual championship. Hart’s Brenna Carlson and Valencia’s Alison Lee each shot 2-under par, 34s, at TPC at Valencia on Tuesday for a share of the lead of the first day of the Newhall Land Cup tournament.   Hart won its fifth straight Foothill League match ...

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Founding Family Of City Honored At Veterans Plaza

The hallowed grounds at the corner of Market and Walnut Streets in Newhall hold a lot of history. The house that was built there around 1888 was once home to 1920 Presidential candidate Henry Clay Needham. It served as a telephone exchange during the St. Francis Dam disaster in 1928, was a Good Templar’s Lodge during Prohibition, was the site ...

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Deputies Looking For Help Tracking Down Tesoro Suspect

Detectives from the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station are seeking public assistance in identifying and locating the man depicted in the sketch at right. At 3:05 p.m., Monday, October 12, a male juvenile was walking in the 29200 block of Las Brisas Road, in the Tesoro Del Valle area. A vehicle, described as a silver 4-door sedan, pulled up behind ...

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