The Master’s College runner Anthony Pizzo finished fourth in the 5,000 meters in the Ben Brown Invitational at Cal State Fullerton over the weekend and qualified for the NAIA National Championships.
The Canyon High graduate finished in 14 minutes, 18.56 seconds, a school record. It was the fastest time in the 5,000 recorded by a runner in the NAIA this year.
Ammar Moussa, a senior at Arcadia High School, won the 5,000-meter race.
Longtime community volunteer Patti Rasmussen has been named Woman Of the Year of the 38th District by Assemblyman Cameron Smyth.
A Canyon Country man is behind bars this afternoon after assaulting his girlfriend and her mother on Sunday, after deputies chased him up a hillside near Sarabande Drive.
The SCV Emergency Winter Shelter closes its doors for the season on March 15. Many of the shelter’s clients will return to local washes, streets and their cars.
There’s a new library coming to Santa Clarita, and this one won’t house the latest installment of the “Twilight” melodrama nor be managed by a private company from out of state. 
The Santa Clarita Skyhawks developmental football team will open their 2011 home schedule on Saturday, March 12 at 7 p.m. when the Skyhawks host the San Diego Thunder at Canyon High School.
On Tuesday, the City Council will look at preparing boundary maps in anticipation of the future annexation of several areas north of Santa Clarita’s boundary between Seco Canyon and Bouquet Canyon Roads. 
The Santa Clarita Shakespeare Festival, which took up residence in Towsley Canyon in 2010 and hopes to extend hospitality to other performing groups, is looking for a few good men and women, preferably with heavy equipment.
