As the New Year approaches, the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station would like to remind all residents to celebrate responsibly. Successful New Year’s Eve celebrations begin with careful (more…)
December 2007
Monthly Archive
Mon 31 Dec 2007
Stay Alive! Don’t Drink and Drive: SCV Sheriffs Stress Safe New Year; Santa Clarita Safe Rides
Posted by admin under Holidays , Sheriff No CommentsMon 31 Dec 2007
The song, “Auld Lang Syne,” is sung at the stroke of midnight in almost every English-speaking country in the world to bring in the New Year. At least partially written by Robert Burns in the 1700’s, it was first published in 1796 (more…)
Mon 31 Dec 2007
Although in the first centuries AD the Romans continued celebrating the New Year, the early Catholic Church condemned the festivities as paganism. But as Christianity became more widespread, the early church began having (more…)
Mon 31 Dec 2007
Todd Church’s face lights up when he recalls the August day he gave presidential candidate Barack Obama a tour of the VerSun ethanol plant near Charles City, a town of 7,800 people in north-eastern (more…)
Mon 31 Dec 2007
The National Weather Service is predicting weather conditions which will constitute a “Red Flag Warning” in areas of the Santa Clarita Valley and Los Angeles County from 12:00 p.m. today through 6:00 p.m. New Year’s Day, (more…)
Mon 31 Dec 2007
California Highway Patrol officers will join thousands of merrymakers on county roads and highways this holiday weekend, hoping to nab anyone foolish enough to get behind the wheel after drinking alcohol (more…)
Mon 31 Dec 2007
The Cincinnati Post said goodbye with its final edition Monday — its presses stilled after 126 years. “_30_”, a symbol traditionally used to signal the end of a dispatch, was the front-page headline in the last Cincinnati edition, (more…)
Mon 31 Dec 2007
West Ranch Town Council to meet Wednesday, Jan. 2nd
Posted by admin under West Ranch Town Council No CommentsThe West Ranch Town Council will hold its regular monthly meeting of 2008 on Wednesday January 2nd, at 6:30 PM in the Newhall Room at the Tournament Players Club (TPC) located at 26550 Heritage View Lane in Westridge. The meeting will include the regular updates from the Sheriff’s Department, the California Highway (more…)
Mon 31 Dec 2007
Planned Carpool Fee is Driving Motorists mad
Posted by admin under Los Angeles , Traffic/ Roadways , Transportation No CommentsA few weeks ago we wrote about a little plan being hatched by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority: They’d like to begin charging motorists to use carpool lanes on stretches of three freeways in Los Angeles (more…)
Mon 31 Dec 2007
Sales of Existing Homes Up Slightly in November; Home prices continued to sink
Posted by admin under Housing , National No CommentsSales of previously owned homes inched up in November but that did not change the overall bleak picture for a housing industry that has been suffering through a painful slump. The National Association of Realtors reported on (more…)
Mon 31 Dec 2007
Kenya was plunged into a media blackout on Monday as the government banned all live broadcasts and the death toll climbed in violence sparked by president Mwai Kibaki’s disputed (more…)
Mon 31 Dec 2007
Wall Street is set to end 2007 with modest gains this week and kick off the new year with all eyes trained on jobs data for signs of recession that could make 2008 a hostile environment for stocks reports Reuters. (more…)
