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Year 14 No. 1: Feb.-March 2008 (.pdf)
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    Editorial: A Long And Rutted Road.
    Newhall Moving Forward.
    Saletore: Young At Hart.
    Newhall Hardware Quits.
    Mulholland: "There It Is, Take It."
    SCV Weather 101.
Year 13 No. 4: Nov.-December 2007 (.pdf)
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    Editorial: Where Is Gate-King?
Year 13 No. 3: Sept.-October 2007 (.pdf)
Year 13 No. 2: July-August 2007 (.pdf)
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    Editorial: From Dream To Reality.
Year 13 No. 1: Spring 2007 (.pdf)
Year 12 No. 4: July-August 2006 (.pdf)
Year 12 No. 3: May-June 2006 (.pdf)
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    Editorial: Build The Future With Eye On Past.
    Four Added To Western Walk.
Year 12 No. 2: March-April 2006 (.pdf)
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    Editorial: North Newhall, Home Inspections And Eminent Domain.
    Cowboy Festival Gallops Into Newhall.
    An Update On Redevelopment.
    A 'North Newhall' Plan.
    Life Lessons From The 'Good Old Days.'
    Evolution Of The Local Rancho.
    And much more...
Year 12 No. 1: Jan.-Feb. 2006 (.pdf)
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    Editorial: A New Plan For An Old Town.
    Community Center To Open.
    History: The Finest Hotel South Of San Francisco.
    Master Plan For Master's College.
    Events: Everything Fun Happens In Newhall.
    What Next For Veterans Memorial Plaza?
    Arts Play A Vital Role In Old Town.
    Gate-King: Downtown Neighbor A Part Of Revitalization Cast.
    Newhall: A Gem In The Making.
    Business Spotlight: Planet Soccer.
    In Newhall, History Is All Around You.

Year 11 No. 1: Nov.-Dec. 2005 (.pdf)
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    Editorial: A Long Road to Recovery.
    A Specific Plan for Newhall.
    Redevelopment Committee At Work for Newhall.
    Shaping Newhall Inside and Out.
    Where Do We Get the Name, Newhall?

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GAZETTE EDITORIAL •
FEBRUARY-MARCH 2008.
By Leon Worden, Publisher.
    "Santa Clarita is well on the road to becoming a premiere city of the Twenty-first Century, but its heart — downtown Newhall — is broken. It will take the combined efforts of the Newhall business community, our city government and residents throughout this valley to mend it."
    With those words, an extremely small group of people launched the Old Town Newhall Gazette in the summer of 1995.
    Victor Feany was one of them. He showed his support for the effort to "get the message out" by advertising his business in that very first edition. (At the time, he was the store manager.)
    Those of us who had been around town a while didn't like what we were seeing. No matter where in Santa Clarita we slept at night, Old Town Newhall — or simply "Old Newhall," as we called it — was our home.
    And it was hurting. This was no one's fault. It was … destiny. It was what progress left behind when the postwar baby boom brought legions of people to Southern California. Landowners did what had to be done, what made economic sense, to meet the exploding demand for affordable housing: They turned farmland into sprawling tracts of new homes — in our case, Valencia.
    Newhall was our historic center, but urban sprawl transported our valley's population center north and west. With it went the ...
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