Spring into super savings on books and more at the Friends of Santa Clarita Public Library Bag Sale. The Friends of Santa Clarita Public Library are having a Spring Bag Sale Saturday, April 26 – Sunday, May 4. Visit any or all of the SCV library branches, buy a bag for $7, or bring a bag from a previous sale ...

 Editorial written by Carl Goldman As many of you know, we produce the annual KHTS Home & Garden Show at Central Park every April.  With over 400 booths and over 25,000 Santa Clarita homeowners attending, it has become the biggest valley-wide annual weekend event. Along with hundreds of home, garden, and craft vendors we have a small amount of local ...

Two books at a book fair were attempted to be censored by some members of the elementary’s Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) back in March, first reported by City News Service. During a book fair at Mountain View Elementary, parents of students took to social media to claim they witnessed members of the PTA hiding two specific books and asking to have ...

Host: Jason Downs and Bobby Marchesso Guests: Rich Allen Jones Topic: Literary Projects Common Ground – Literary Projects – January 03, 2022 On this episode of Common Ground, our hosts Jason Downs and Bobby Marchesso talk with their guest,  Rich Allen Jones about books. Jason starts off the show by talking with Rich about his life stories that led to him ...

“When you read a book, you enter a false reality of unimaginable opportunities,” notes Henry Sullivan, an assignment writing expert at NetworkDataPedia. The more you read the more you fall into the storyline of the main character. You embody their approach of life and feel as if you yourself are in the book. It’s a way to break free from ...

Due to the shifting social climate of 2020, millions of people found themselves with more free time than ever. And thanks to that free time, many of those people turned to their oft-neglected bookshelves. The year saw record-breaking increases in readership, as well as book sales. Despite many booksellers being closed down for the majority of 2020, printed book sales ...

A Santa Clarita nonprofit, Code Read, continues to give free books to readers as the coronavirus pandemic continues, officials said Tuesday.  Code Read, which was founded in May 2016 by Mackenzie Krestul, is a “fierce” advocate for youth literacy.  Code Read distributes free books to children from low-income families, with a goal to provide every child with an equal opportunity ...

Host: Matt Watson Co-Host: Amber Raskin, Founder & Executive Director of iLEAD Schools Topic: More Than Just Books Guests: Kathleen Fredette, Director of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math) at iLEAD & SCVi Schools; Shannon Vonnegut, City Librarian; Kristina de Bree, MA, LMFT, EMDR Click Here to Listen! Right Click Here to Download! More Than Just Books — April 9, 2020 On this ...

If there is one non-profit organization to pay attention to, Projects Books would be one of them. Tablets and smartphones with visual books are more popular than they ever have been, and as a result, the books are being thrown away instead of being kept around. Since 2011, Project Books is here to put an end to books being thrown ...

The Valencia Library is partnering with the Friends of Santa Clarita Public Library for a summer-reads book drive, where the community is being encouraged to donate books and materials with the hopes of spreading some great summer reads at bargain prices. The sale is set to take place inside the Community Room, where attendees are expected to bring their own ...