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Report Cards Are In For Hart District Schools

The William S. Hart Union High School District is offering an opportunity to view their School Accountability Report Cards (SARCs). These can be accessed at www.HartDistrict.org and clicking on the Community link at the top of the page. From there select Accountability Reports from the drop-down menu. Site visitors can then select the school and the report they want to ...

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Hometown Recipes: Orange Espresso Chocolate Puddings

By Erin Walgamuth This recipe is for all of you chocolate lovers out there, which would include me! These delicious, velvety, elegant and easy desserts are yummy enough to serve to company. They are a cross between a French chocolate custard and chocolate pudding. If you don’t care for the taste of oranges, don’t add the zest. The same goes ...

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LifeScan Recalls Test Strips Due To Inaccurate Readings

LifeScan, Inc. is conducting a voluntary recall in the United States of eight lots of OneTouch® SureStep® Test Strips, used by people with diabetes to measure their blood glucose levels at home. The test strips are being recalled because they may provide falsely low glucose results when the glucose level is higher than 400 mg/dL. The eight lots of consumer ...

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SCV Youth Project Announces New Executive Committee Leadership

The Santa Clarita Valley Youth Project announced the election of a new Executive Committee. The Board of Directors of the SCV Youth Project elected the following officers: President, Gregg Goodman, of Gregg Goodman Farmers Insurance; Vice President, Jerry Citarella, of Infinity Wealth Management; Secretary, Renee’ Kaehny, owner of Rituals Colour Salon; Treasurer, Tom Hough, CPA; Nancy Starczyk, of Realty Executives ...

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City Again Seeks Support For Mining Bill

Mayor requests support for CEMEX compromise The City of Santa Clarita is hoping local residents will endorse the long-awaited Soledad Canyon Conservation and Management Act (H.R. 4332). When the government granted mining rights to CEMEX USA to mine in Soledad Canyon in 1990, local citizens were concerned. Unhappy with the prospect of the destruction of the wilderness range and the ...

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Shutter Island: You’d Have To Be Crazy Not To Go

One of my favorite things in film is the sacred and underrated occurrence of the actor/director bromance. This is seen with Depp/Burton, Rogen/Apatow, Hanks/Spielberg, Cruise/Spielberg, Anderson/Seymour Hoffman, Nicholson/Brooks, and Scorsese/DeNiro etc. Well, we have a new one (just so you know you need at least four collaborations for it to be a bromance), with Scorsese/DiCaprio. Since, 2002’s “Gangs of New ...

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Storm Hits Santa Clarita

The rain started coming down Friday night, and deluged the Santa Clarita Valley into Saturday. The high volume of water flooded some rural streets like Placerita Canyon Road, and left sheets of water running across driveways and intersections. The heaviest bouts came while most people were asleep or still indoors, and by mid morning the rain had lightened dramatically. However ...

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Walking To Honor Heroes

By Erik Wilson Samuel Dixon Family Health Centers Inc. (SDFHC) is hosting a Heroes 5K Run/Walk, which will honor heroes in uniform who serve and protect local residents every day while in harm’s way. Santa Clarita City Councilman Bob Kellar will emcee the event. Featured honorees will include former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Captain,  SCV Mayor and City Councilman George ...

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Chamber Hosts Monthly Membership Luncheon

The program for the March Santa Clarita Valley Chamber of Commerce luncheon will feature many of the candidates who will be running for three open seats on the City of Santa Clarita City Council. Seven of the 11 candidates have confirmed their attendance and participation for the luncheon.Each candidate will be given two minutes to share their political vision and ...

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