Local government occasionally gets it right

Saturday morning, we had the Outback filled to the brim with television sets, computer monitors and various electronic equipment, as we pulled out of the driveway on the way to our second try to get rid of it responsibly at an electronics recycling event. The last one hadn’t gone so well.

Earlier this winter, there was a similar event and it closed down almost before it could get started due to some really poor planning. Who could have foreseen, with the change over to digital television, that folks would want to get rid of the old CRT clunker?

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Montecito wildfires video

As a wildfire that devastated the wealthy enclave of Montecito settled down late Friday, a second blaze erupted in Sylmar amid heavy winds and destroyed at least three structures and scorched 100 acres, authorities said.

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