Emily Alvarenga

While Saugus High School senior Sophia Celi knows she can’t immediately change the entire world, she’s working to change “little worlds,” such as the community in which she resides. After watching “Seaspiracy,” a documentary about the commercial fishing industry, Celi said it opened her eyes to her…

By Emily Alvarenga Signal Senior Staff Writer After another year of pandemic stresses and strains, many are setting much-needed financial money goals to get back on track in the new year. It’s no surprise that more than half of the 3,000 adult respondents during a NextAdvisor survey in June reported…

As legislation to expand the Rim of the Valley corridor works its way through Congress, local conservationists are working to continue protecting the areas they say are crucial to maintaining the ecological integrity of the Santa Clarita Valley region. The Rim of the Valley Corridor Preservation Act…

For more than 15 years, Hillary Broadwater has been committed to her company QM Design Group, as well as the Santa Clarita Valley community. It was that commitment that she was honored for as Sen. Scott Wilk, R-Santa Clarita, awarded the president and creative director his December choice for the 21…

What began as a way for friends to get together safely in the midst of the pandemic has quickly blossomed into so much more. Every Thursday, the Santa Clarita Valley Mobo Bikers and More, a group of adults with special needs, get together to ride their Mobos and shoot hoops. A Mobo is a low-slung, […

As a single mother with four disabled young adult children, Santa Clarita resident Deborah Nevarez is used to working hard. But after she lost her job — just a couple of weeks after her 21-year-old son, Alexander, was diagnosed with classical Hodgkin’s lymphoma — she’s been working even harder to pr…

As the holidays fast approach, Guide Dogs of America | Tender Loving Canines are in search of Santa Clarita Valley residents to open their hearts — and homes — to a puppy-in-training. The local guide dog and service dog program has been facing an extreme shortage of volunteers this winter to help ra…

Stamped in sidewalks across the Santa Clarita Valley are more than two dozen poems, each exemplifying the various aspects that make the SCV feel like home. For the past three years, the city of Santa Clarita has called for short poem entries for its Sidewalk Poetry project that use the SCV’s landscape and environment as […]

By Emily Alvarenga Signal Senior Staff Writer Stevenson Ranch resident Vicki Rivera used to love going grocery shopping, opting to shop for each meal rather than getting all her groceries at once, but since the pandemic hit, she’s seen a change in her shopping habits. “It used to be fun to go weekly…

Rep. Mike Garcia, R-Santa Clarita, and volunteers delivered a truckload of food donations to the Santa Clarita Valley Food Pantry in Newhall Saturday. The donations, which had been collected from across Garcia’s district over the past week, included much-needed food items. “As prices rise at record …