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Voting Change in Santa Clarita Upheld Court

A superior court judge again upheld the legality of cumulative voting, which had been challenged by city attorneys. The move led to speculation that a new lawsuit challenging the legality of cumulative voting could be on the horizon.

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Bronstrup, Founder of Way Station, Dies at 80

Stanley Bronstrup opened the Way Station Coffee Shop two weeks after the February 1971 earthquake ... and breakfast in the Santa Clarita Valley would never be the same. As his son Jerry writes, "Stanley knew who and when his regulars would arrive and prepared their meal just in time, exactly how he wanted it." Come for the food, stay for the conversation, make lifelong friendships.

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Amgen Returns to Santa Clarita in 2015

Stage 5 of the 2015 Amgen Tour of California will finish in Santa Clarita on Thursday, May 15.

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Family Finds Missing Palmdale Man's Body in Acton

Damien Sisley, 34, of Palmdale, was found Sunday

afternoon in his car down an embankment, off Mt. Emma Road and Angeles Forest Highway, said Sgt. B. Robinson of the Palmdale California Highway Patrol Station. Officials notified the family of Sisley.

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High School Football: West Ranch vs. Hart

The Hart Indians hosted the West Ranch Wildcats at Cougar Stadium in this Nissan of Valencia Game of the Week. WATCH

CSUN Deaf Ed Program Gets $1.25M Federal Grant

The grant, from the Office of Special Education Programs in the U.S. Department of Education, is for CSUN's new Interdisciplinary Deaf Education Teacher Preparation Program (IDEP). The program will develop a team that will include members of the Deaf community, parents, interpreters, paraeducators and related service professionals to help prepare teachers to more effectively impact their deaf students. READ STORY

Underwater Pumpkin Carving

Scuba teams put their pumpkin carving skills to the test 12 feet under water during the City of Santa Clarita's 7th Annual Underwater Pumpkin Carving Contest and Spooky Family Fair at the Santa Clarita Aquatics Center.

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Cougar News: Hockey Highlights

The Valencia Flyers hosted the Las Vegas Storm for a three game series over the weekend. COC Cougar News Sports Producer Matt Robinson shared these local hockey highlights with us.

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Op-Ed: Bird in the Hand | Darryl Manzer

Since the founding of Santa Clarita, there has been a dream of eliminating billboards citywide. It was going to be an expensive dream. The "deal" worked out actually brings money into the city and gets rid of dozens - repeat, dozens - of those massive eyesores.
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Cronies Come Home to Roost | Joe Messina

It's a well-known fact inside the Beltway that Obama hands out ambassador nominations like $5 Starbucks cards at a PTA raffle. If you've helped bundle money in any way for Obama, one of your rewards could easily be an ambassadorship - not to Iraq or Iran or Russia, but a more desirable place like Norway. COMMENTARY

Today in SCV History: October 21, 2007

Buckweed fire chars 38,000 acres, destroys 21 homes in Canyon Country and Agua Dulce.

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New Old Stuff: Pathfinder For President

Col. John C. Fremont, alias The Pathfinder, passed through the Santa Clarita Valley on mapping expeditions in the early 1840s and returned in January 1847 en route to accepting Mexican Gen. Andres Pico's surrender during the war of 1846-1848.

A decade later, in 1856, Fremont was the first presidential candidate put forward by a brand-new political party: The Republicans. Fremont lost to Democrat James Buchanan, but both polled ahead of the incumbent president, Millard Fillmore of the American Party.

Lots of communities throughout the West claim a connection to the popular Pathfinder; one SCV connection is Fremont Pass, the place where he trekked across the local mountains.

More readily identifiable today is the place named for the opposing general - Pico Canyon.

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