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NEWS UPDATE: Progress Report on Gigi Day’s Recovery

From the January 09, 2009 Edition

(Updates on Gigi Day’s progress. Reported by Bill Day; written by Patric Hedlund)

Update Friday, Jan. 9, 8 p.m.—We had a hiatus in our Gigi Day updates during the New Year’s break. We resume today, …

School Board Votes to Challenge State Law

From the January 09, 2009 Edition

By Gary Meyer

In December a new member was added to the 2009 El Tejon Unified School District Board of Trustees, but before the board changed composition, the 2008 board voted four to one at …

Peter Neptune Killed in Motorcycle Crash

From the January 09, 2009 Edition

FRAZIER PARK, California (Tuesday, 4:45 p.m.)—Peter Jacob Neptune, 23 was killed in a motorcycle collision with a car at about 8:45 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 13 in the city of Valencia. He was a 2003 …

50 Students to a Classroom?

From the January 09, 2009 Edition

ETUSD May Have To Cut $300,000 More

Reported by Katy Penland and Patric Hedlund

Despite El Tejon Unified School District’s largely successful efforts to tighten its budget for several years in a row, ETUSD—like most …

Runaway Big Rig Injures 11 On Grapevine

From the January 09, 2009 Edition

By Patric Hedlund with Katy Penland

A runaway big rig carrying corrosive hazardous materials on the northbound Grapevine section of Interstate 5 hit 10 passenger vehicles and sent 11 people to hospital at about 12:50 …

Mary Broken, Baby Jesus Stolen as Church Vandalized

From the January 09, 2009 Edition

By Patric Hedlund

Jeff Bell was surprised and then shocked on New Year’s Day when he discovered vandalism to a nativity scene and the theft of Baby Jesus at the newly built El Camino Pines …

Pine Mountain Town Hall: Preparing For Wildfire

From the January 09, 2009 Edition

By Connie Baldin

On Friday, Jan. 9 from 7-9 p.m., in the Condor room, the Pine Mountain Town Hall meeting will explore “wildfire on the mountain and what is being done to prepare for it.”

The Year in Photos

From the January 02, 2009 Edition

Special New Year’s Issue

By Patric Hedlund

For many of us, the events accompanying New Year’s eve offer a front row center seat to the magic lantern of the mind. A cascade of flickering memories …

How to Spot a Fake Bill

From the January 02, 2009 Edition

Watch for these signs:

1) The face may show the wrong president because counterfeiters sometimes use other bills to add a zero, to make it a hundred. Benjamin Franklin’s face is on the hundred dollar …