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Entries from November 2007

City says NO to Los Lomas

November 14th, 2007 · No Comments

Santa Clarita City Council Notes
  Shelved for now is the renaming of Newhall’s Railroad Avenue and San Fernando Road from 11th Street to Magic Mountain Parkway as Bouquet Canyon Road. The council cites asking for more input from local business owners and residents.
Voting unanimously the council opposed the planned Las Lomas development that [...]

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Antonovich- opposition to the Las Lomas project

November 14th, 2007 · No Comments

County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich is continuing his opposition to the Las Lomas project. Back in August, the builder, in an attempt to skirt the City of Santa Clarita had taken his plans to the City of Los Angeles in hopes of getting approval for the massive 5,600 slated new homes they want [...]

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Acton Residents Protest Development

November 13th, 2007 · No Comments

The residents in the town of Acton are facing a proposed development of four buildings housing at least five restaurants on two acres at Crown Valley and Antelope Woods roads. Acton remains a quiet village about 50 miles North of the City of Los Angeles with just over 9,000 residents. Acton residents admit they [...]

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No Charges in Buckweed Fire

November 13th, 2007 · No Comments

It was reported here today that the boy who started the Buckweed Fire will not be charged. The fire burned 38,000 acres and destroyed 21 homes. The Los Angeles County District Attorney will not file charges however has referred the "matter" to Department of Children and Family Services, “to determine if other intervention is [...]

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The Toilet House

November 12th, 2007 · No Comments

When you bring your work home with you…
This house and it’s unique design is the work of Sim Jae-duck, get ready - he is the chairman of the organizing committee of the Inaugural General Assembly of the World Toilet Association. No Joke!

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Newhall Tunnel Work

November 12th, 2007 · No Comments

The Newhall Pass tunnel is expected to  reopen by Thanksgiving weekend or possibly earlier, it was reported Tuesday. Work began this week on the two-lane truck bypass tunnel where 30 big rigs and one car exploded in a raging fire, three people died inside the tunnel earlier this month Oct. 12. The fire within [...]

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Foreclosure Fallout for Neighbors

November 11th, 2007 · 1 Comment

What gets left behind when home owners facing foreclosure choose to walk away from their homes? Green pools, broken windows and overgrown landscape. In recent months increasing numbers of homeowners have been forced into foreclosure, some owners trash their homes before they are repossessed. Reports are circulating that owners are stripping anything and everything [...]

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Vasquez Bridge Open

November 11th, 2007 · No Comments

It was reported here on Sunday Novemebr 11, 2007, the Bouquet Canyon bridge has been repaired and is now open to thru traffic. The bridge was destroyed in the Buckweed fire which started in acton on Sunday October 21 and quickly cut a fire blaze down to Canyon Country. The bridge is at Vasquez [...]

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Countrywide CEO in the news

November 11th, 2007 · 1 Comment

The Buyers Made Us do It.
Angelo Mozilo is quoted as saying Countrywide Financial has done nothing wrong, and he’s done nothing wrong. In a article today in The New York Times states "To this day, he says his beleaguered company did nothing wrong during the loose-lending craze that is now unraveling nationwide with record foreclosures [...]

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Tags: Housing and Mortgage

Veterans Memorial Plaza, Newhall California

November 10th, 2007 · No Comments

 Photo of fountain at Veterans Memorial Park, Newhall California.
 
If you are in the downtown Newhall area and have time, take a minute to visit this Memorial Park, it is a beautiful spot to remember those who gave some and those who gave all, our United States Veterans

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