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Volunteers Make Difference At SCV Senior Center

By John Nussbaum, SCVNews.com — Nearly 100 volunteers from local businesses and schools converged on the Santa Clarita Valley Senior Center on Saturday, ‘Make a Difference Day’ throughut the United States, to help renovate buildings at the center damaged by flooding earlier this year. “Make a Difference Day” brings volunteers together to pitch in on community projects, and this year ...

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Single-Family Home Construction On Pace To Hit All-Time Low; Builders Focus On Apartments

Building permits issued throughout Los Angeles County in September reflected the relative strength of apartment construction and the historic weakness in the single-family market statewide, the Los Angeles/Ventura Chapter of the Building Industry Association of Southern California reported Monday. According to data compiled by the Construction Industry Research Board (CIRB), there were 194 single-family permits pulled in L.A. County during ...

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County Supervisors Approve Mission Village, Phase Two Of Newhall Ranch

By Leon Worden/SCVNEWS.com On a 4-0 vote, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors upheld the Regional Planning Commission’s earlier approval of Mission Village, the second phase of the eventual 20,660-home Newhall Ranch “mini-city” west of Interstate 5 in the Santa Clarita Valley. Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky was not in the room when the vote was taken. The decision came two ...

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Midweek Brings Dry Heat, Fire Danger

You’d never know it by the cloudy, rainy skies in the Santa Clarita Valley on Tuesday and Tuesday night, but Wednesday through the weekend, a mild Santa Ana condition will bring clear skies, a rise in temperatures, a drop in humidity, gusty winds, and a heightened fire weather alert to the Santa Clarita Valley, according to the National Weather Service. ...

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Vandalism Investigators Assigned To Transit Bureau Honored By National Chiefs Group

Local Sheriff’s Deputies assigned to the Special Problems Unit of the Transit Services Bureau have a special reason to be proud today, as their unit received the Thomson Reuters Award for Excellence in Criminal Investigations from the International Association of Chiefs of Police at their annual banquet in Chicago.   These awards recognize quality achievement and innovation in managing and ...

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