Santa Clarita Real Estate

Tahoe OKs annual tax to increase fire safety
From the Associated Press October 29, 2007
TAHOE CITY, Calif. — Four months after Lake Tahoe’s largest recorded wild-land fire, Tahoe City-area property owners have overwhelmingly voted to pay an annual assessment to improve fire safety on the north shore.
A total of 3,873 [...]

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Santa Clarita Fire Storms
The Buckwheat Fire which started in Acton at about 1:00 PM on Sunday quickly burned the ridgeline into Bouquet Canyon and ravaged several neighborhoods in Canyon Country and Saugus.Sunday night many areas in Canyon Country were under mandatory evacuations.
 
The Ranch Fire in Castaic as of Monday October 22 has burned 35,000 [...]

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Garbage Truck Drivers On Strike
Homeowners in Stevenson Ranch and Castaic might find their trash start piling up along sidewalks after drivers for Waste Management Inc. went on strike early Friday morning.
The company says it’s planning to bring in replacment drivers and that Waste Management brought in replacement drivers, residents and businesses in [...]

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No love for Castaic Lake.
The Love Ride, the annual motorcycle event that has poured thousands of riders into Castaic for the past 14 years, is moving this year to the Fairplex in Pomona.
Event organizers decided to join forces with the inaugural California Bike Week sponsored by 75 Harley-Davidson dealerships, said Love Ride founder [...]

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Santa Clarita council members have voted to spend up to $90,000 for Big League Dreams Consulting to find a potential site within the city for a sports park.
Big League Dreams is a private company that works with cities to build sports parks with baseball and softball fields that are replicas of historic major league [...]

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Making her first visit to Santa Clarita, Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein  "You’ve really built this city," Feinstein told the audience of roughly 400 gathered at the Hyatt Valencia’s Grand Ballroom. "I think you can be very proud of it." The topics included the Cemex mine planned outside Santa Clarita to the war in [...]

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SAN DIEGO, Calif., Oct. 3 — The Slopes of Mt. Soledad in San Diego have suffered a landslide which caused severe damage, shredding a 150-foot stretch of a busy road and wrecking at least one hillside home and taking down 3 power poles which supply electricity to the area.
Estimates are that at least 46 [...]

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Update to the story that appeard on September 20, 2007;  The little house that couldn’t! abandoned on the side of the 101 freeway since September 15, Caltrans hired Master House Movers, of Santa Clarita they began moving the house at about 10:00 p.m. Tuesday night. Caltrans spokesperson, Judy Gish is quoted as saying, "In the [...]

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A House on the Move or a Parking Lot?
Patrick Richardson’s home has sat on the 101 Freeway for five days, causing motorists to do a double take and area business owners wondering how much longer this house will be parked on the shoulder. Richardson, who decided to move his house on his own from Santa [...]

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The Fed announced Tuesday that it was reducing its target for the federal funds rate, the interest that banks charge each other, from 5.25 percent to 4.75 percent. The half-point reduction was double the quarter-point move that many economists had been expecting.
The action was designed to boost economic growth by lowering borrowing costs for millions [...]

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