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Five Ways To Safely Celebrate Halloween In Santa Clarita For 2020

With some Halloween activities such as trick-or-treating permitted within Santa Clarita and Los Angeles County, here are five ways to safely celebrate the season during the COVID-19 pandemic.   Halloween will look a little different this year in the Santa Clarita Valley due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. However, there are still plenty of ways that residents can safely celebrate ...

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GoFundMe Set Up For 19-Year-Old COC Student Diagnosed With Leukemia   

Friends and family have set up a GoFundMe for Sean Flaharty, a 19-year-old College of the Canyons student from Santa Clarita who was diagnosed with Leukemia earlier this month.   On Saturday, Oct. 10th, the  COC student and Saugus High graduate admitted himself into the Emergency Room at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital for what he thought was a kidney stone, said ...

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Former Hart Quarterback Jim Bonds Dies At 51

Jim Bonds, a Hart High School graduate, quarterback of the 1986 CIF Conference Championship team and longtime coach of St. Francis High School in La Cañada, has died after a multi-year battle with cancer at the age of 51. Bonds was diagnosed with multiple myeloma during the spring of 2018, and with treatment he was initially able to return to ...

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SCV Water Files Lawsuit Over PFAS Contamination In Santa Clarita

The Santa Clarita Valley Water Agency (SCV Water) has filed a lawsuit against 3M Company, Chemours, DuPont and several other companies, for their roles in introducing Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) into the water supply in Santa Clarita. The lawsuit alleges the agency’s water had been contaminated by toxic chemicals that were discharged into the environment by-products manufactured by the ...

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Adult Film Actor Ron Jeremy Faces Additional Charges Following Alleged Santa Clarita Sexual Assault

Ron Jeremy Arrest Santa Clarita

Ron Jeremy Hyatt, an adult film star known as Ron Jeremy who had previously been charged with sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl at a house party in Santa Clarita, has now been charged with seven new sexual assault charges. On Wednesday, seven additional sexual assault counts were filed against Hyatt, involving six women for incidents that date back to 1996. ...

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How Tech Innovation Helps Fight The Coronavirus

This isn’t the first time the human population is dealing with a dangerous virus. We’ve been there before when Ebola, SARS, H1N1, and many other viruses appeared. Each time that happened scientists have tried to find different ways to fight against it. Various solutions have been invented to manage these diseases. That’s why all of us are thankful for technology. ...

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Los Angeles County School Reopening Capacity Increased For High-Need Students

School Start Times Bill Signed Into Law By Governor Gavin Newsom

The Los Angeles County school reopening capacity has increased to 25 percent for “small cohorts” of students with high needs, officials said.  Over 1,000 schools in L.A. County have been approved for a limited return to campus in-person learning, for students with individualized education plans (IEPs), students requiring instruction for English as a Second Language (ESL) or students needing assessments ...

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Santa Clarita Woman Named President Of Zonta International

_Sharon Langenbeck Zonta International

Dr. Sharon Langenbeck, a longtime member of Santa Clarita’s local Zonta Club, was chosen to be Zonta’s International next president and hopes to expand Zonta’s reach worldwide. Langenbeck was inducted into the role of president for the 2020-2022 term on July 17, and intends to launch projects to aid women’s rights in Peru, Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste. Langenbeck previously ...

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Westfield Valencia Town Center Food Court Open For Take-Out

The Westfield Valencia Town Center has opened its food court for pick-up and take-out, while dine-in options remain closed. Los Angeles County’s Department of Public Health (L.A. Public Health) allowed indoor restaurants located in shopping centers to operate for in-person orders and order pick-up beginning Oct. 23, although customers are not permitted to eat or drink indoors. “The County of ...

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Dodgers Win 2020 World Series Championship

Dodgers Win 2020 World Series Championship

The Los Angeles Dodgers became World Series Champions for the first time since 1988 with their 3-1 win over the Tampa Bay Rays in Game 6 on Tuesday night. Los Angeles is once again the city of champions with the addition of a Dodgers World Series title to the recent Los Angeles Lakers victory in the NBA Finals. With the ...

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