- Eight trucks jackknife in the Newhall Pass last night around 10:00 pm after I had retired and resulted in a five hour Sigalert since the accident shut down the southbound truck lanes. I left the house for my usual 5:00 am trek out of the SCV and it was like the accident never happened; in fact I only realized there had been an accident when Mike Nolan on KFI mentioned it as I passed Hollywood Way in Burbank. Good for the CHP in getting it all cleaned up quickly.
- Throwing their two cents into the incumbency hegemony machine The Signal references the regular council meeting tonight as “special” since incumbent candidate Laurie Ender will become “Mayor.”
- While this seems like a fast ball rising through the strike zone for a Hart Hater like myself I will refrain from the obvious and congratulate a team from Hart High that won the 2011 National Chess championship. The four members of the team from their photograph look eminently presentable so hopefully the coeds at Hart will take notice of this achievement.
- Followup article on potential purchase of “Lombardi” property in Romero Canyon for the Castaic High School. Commenters show a growing sense of agitation over the process including some questioning the need for a CHS right now. (Duh!)
- SCVNEWS piece shows the danger of working with small numbers. Car thefts at COC ‘tripled” in one year but that means going from one to three. Assaults are also “trending up” with none in 2008, one in 2009 and three in 2010.
Sorry for the folks that were assaulted and got their cars stolen but these numbers are still extremely small and the campus, like all college campuses, is extremely safe. - Daylight carjacking at the AM/PM on Pico Canyon Road gets referenced as being in Newhall but I am pretty sure that that location on the other side of the 5 is in Stevenson Ranch. Earlier reports had stated the carjackers pretended to be law enforcement personnel. Anyone know where David Galvan is?
- You have to look at the top of the article but a former Canyon Country resident that went missing on December 2 in Lancaster returned safely home on Friday December 9, the same day local news outlets provided coverage of the matter.
- Really Patricia? points out that the McKeon campaign, which Patricia McKeon runs, spends just under $15K per month on “Card Charges” for payments on credit cards with no further explanation. The author points out this is twice the average income of constituents in the 25th District and about four times what double crossed Congressman Elton Gallegly from Simi Valley charges to a similar expense category.
- Candidate Jon Hatami’s Facebook page, chock full of his views on the death penalty and illegal immigration, seems stuck at 109 “likes.” Maybe it will pep up after he officially files for candidacy. Latest entry identifies his core constituency as high school students, COC students, police officers and veterans.
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The AM/PM on Pico west of the freeway is in Newhall.
What’s a tracker trailer?
I beg to differ.
Clearly, per the map (http://www.santa-clarita.com/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=2313) the AM/PM west of the freeway is in the 91381 zip code. As such, and per the USPS, the “acutal city” is Stevenson Ranch.
“Newhall” is merely “acceptable” for the Zip Code. As such, from here on out, I shall refer to TPC as “Newhall.” See how long they like that.
Its time will come and it will be put to a vote.
In the fall of 1988 when my parents broke the news to our family that we were moving to California, they showed us pictures of our new house in what I now know to be Sunset Pointe. Where is that, I asked? Newhall, they said.
The deal fell through and we wound up in the luscious paseo’d neighborhood adjacent to Valencia Valley, but for quite a while, everyone knew that area as Newhall… but I don’t think that’s the case anymore.
Episode 4: Hamburger Hill. Stay tuned.
In the spring of 1992, when I learned we were moving to the SCV, my parents sold me on it by showing me a NL&F brochure for Valencia. I think it was the first time I read the word “paseo” and it stuck with me. It looked lush, green, verdant, and pleasant. Way to go NL&F Marketing Department! Lots of smiling white faces in the year after the LA Riots. My mom was excited too since she remembered Valencia from when we visited Magic Mountain in the mid 80s.
As we were coming into town we, like most immigrants from “back east” (yes that’s how SCVers of the day thought of Colorado), we drove in on then San Fernando Road and were, well, less than impressed. It looked like a dump, to be honest. THe first thing you see on that road is a Carl’s Jr, a mobile home park, vacant land, and gas stations. Note to future immigrants trying to impress their wives: make the round trip up the 5 and exit McBean! First impressions are important.
Then I found out we weren’t actually living in the cool part of town (Valencia) but Sunset Pointe. I hated it almost right away, the never ending noise of the freeway (silent only for a few days after the quake and never since) and the fact that we were up on a hill yet again (my folks were hill people I think). I was also disappointed there was no downtown let alone a sky line as there was in Colorado Springs, but I did like Lyons Avenue because it was straight like the streets back in CoS.
Our neighbors were Persians (I had never met one), I had never seen so many Latinos, and Hart High School was a shock for a Catholic school kid.
On the plus side, we had our own pool. And I became cognizant very early on that when I crossed over the 5, I was leaving County territory and entering City territory. I wished my parents had moved us to the city.
Back then, I think SUnset Pointe was in the 91321, further confusing things.
OMG Jeff, that is hilarious. When my husband first took me to look at the townhouse we ended up buying, we exited from the 14 and drove up San Fernando Road, then made our way down Lyons. Even though I loved the townhouse, I hated the area. Told hubby I could never live somewhere so depressing, so we crossed the townhouse off our list. After looking at a bunch more properties and not being happy with any, hubby said LETS GIVE THE TOWNHOUSE ONE MORE LOOK, BUT I’M GOING TO TAKE YOU THERE A DIFFERENT WAY. This time we exited from the 5. We made an offer on the townhouse that same day. I totally get exiting from the 5 for a good first impression.
People around TPC will generally tell you they live in Valencia. That’s sweet music to Leon’s ears, but I bet Bossert thinks otherwise.
Similar to the master plan of Valencia, only the master plan area of Stevenson Ranch is Stevenson Ranch. The businesses along Pico Canyon are technically Newhall and existed way before the Stevenson Ranch development.
Lets get rid of all names unless you’re officially incorporated. Valencia, Saugus, Newhall are now “Santa Clarita” Stevenson Ranch is “Rural Outlying County of Los Angeles.”
So sayeth I.
Continued usage of the names Valencia, Newhall, Saugus and Canyon Country was promised as a delling point by those favoring incoration. Why should we be any different that neighborhoods such as Encino, Eagle Rock, etrc., which are nothing more than subsets of the City of Los Angeles.
Because a city of nearly 4 million people and 500+ sq miles, bisected by a mountain range and a city of 176k people and 52 square miles are totally comparable. Makes perfect sense.
Besides, nothing would make me happier if all the Angelenos would realize the fact that they live in Los Angeles. You have no idea how many people believe that there is a City of Northridge and that they’re somehow miraculously under a different government system than Watts.
But those areas that keep changing their boundaries know they have to petion the City of LA for permission to do that. But we have confusion on a smaller scale right here in our valley. How many people who live in Stevenson Ranch think they live in the City of Santa Clarita?
Not only do some Stevenson Ranch residents think that they live in SCV, but also apply and are accepted onto city citizen advisory committees. Yup, our own city government accepts non-residents as citizen advisors, while rejecting qualified, actual SCV residents from the same committees. Makes zero sense to me.
Returning from Watch The Throne at 1am, I didn’t notice anything unusual on the other side of the freeway.
Sheesh EIGHT trucks jackknifing? Sounds like a Michael Bay movie. :-O
Oh and that station is in Stevenson Ranch