Santa Clarita Valley’s William S. Hart Union High School District schools reopened for in-person learning this week, with students returning to campuses for the first time in over a year. The Hart District, which encompasses most junior and senior high schools in the Santa Clarita Valley, began optional in-person instruction Monday, with students attending school on campuses two days of ...

The Saugus High School Centurions defeated the Hart High School Indians in a Thursday night football matchup at Canyon High School. The Saugus High football team brought home their second win of the season Thursday with a final score versus Hart of 35-10.   Saugus led Hart 14-0 in the first quarter, closing the half with a 28-point lead over ...

Hart High School baseball head coach Jim Ozella has seen quite a few ball players wear a Hart jersey in his 20 plus years coaching, but none much better than the four Hart alumni who are currently playing in MLB Spring Training. Mike Montgomery(‘08), Trevor Bauer(‘08), Pat Valaika(‘10), and Tyler Glasnow(‘11) all started their careers in Santa Clarita and now ...

Officials with the William S. Hart Union High School District held a public discussion about the history and controversy surrounding the Hart High School Indian mascot, which many have recently called “outdated and offensive.” On Tuesday morning, the Hart District Governing Board held a virtual study session to start a conversation about changing Hart High’s Indian mascot, which students have ...

Officials with the William S. Hart Union High School District are set to begin discussing the possibility of changing the mascot of Hart High School in a “study session” for the governing board after students gathered over 18,000 signatures in a petition to retire the “outdated and offensive Indian mascot.” On Wednesday, Hart District Superintendent Mike Kuhlman announced that the ...

Hart High School in Newhall is to temporarily close its campus to remaining students and staff members amid reports of positive cases of COVID-19. “Today, we were notified by the LA County Department of Public Health that Hart High School will need to be temporarily closed because of the existence of at least three linked cases of COVID-19 on campus,” ...

Former Hart High School baseball player Jesse Posey made his debut on Netflix as a member of the cast of their new show ‘Selena: The Series’. The show follows the tragic life of singer Selena Quintanilla-Pérez, known simply as Selena, who experienced a meteoric rise to fame in the early 1990s before her life was cut short at 23 years ...

Former Hart High School pitcher Trevor Bauer was announced as Major League Baseball’s 2020 National League Cy Young Award winner. With the win, Bauer became the first player from Santa Clarita to take home the award and the first to win it for his team, the Cincinnati Reds. Every year, the Baseball Writers’ Association of America votes on the Cy ...

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 ...

A Hart High science teacher was on the NASA flight which was part of the team that verified for the first time water on the sunlit surface of the Moon. Hart High School science teacher Kathryn Smith was on the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) flight in October of 2019 that verified the initial discovery. This discovery indicates that ...