Santilli comes out a winner at Regional Occupation Program banquet

By Pat Willett 

Robert Santilli, a senior at Valencia High School, has been named Outstanding Student of the Year by the Hart School District’s Regional Occupational Program. Santilli’s award came at the climax of a pirate-themed ROP Advisory Committee Annual Meeting and Awards Dinner, which drew hundreds of students, parents and business and community leaders who serve on the ROP Advisory Committee.

Explosions are just noisy movie magic.

The City of Santa Clarita had announced that mock explosions will be heard Tuesday and Wednesday night as part of a local film project.

Now, however, the explosions will be taking place Thursday night as well.  

The filming will be based out of the Whittaker-Bermite property, and residents around the area have all been notified. In addition, the fire department has approved the faux explosions and they will be on hand monitoring the situation.

Thousands of yards of sediment removed from Forest Service dock.

After being closed for 45 days for sediment removal, Pyramid Lake will reopen for public recreation on Saturday.

The Department of Water Resources performed the cleanup operations, drawing the lake level down 23 feet and removing 32,000 cubic yards of sediment that had accumulated around the U.S. Forest Service boat dock over the last four decades.

Business group to hear from school administrators dealing with financial crunch.

Imagine falling $16 billion short in the coming budget year. Now picture tightening the belt with spending cuts so the impact of a deficit would be shared across the board.