Columns and Commentaries
Editor’s notebook: Rash of incidental death disconcerting
  Without being insensitive to the individual circumstances that surround the deaths of five people in the San Lorenzo Valley in the past two months, I think it’s necessary to point out we’re go...
Apr 15, 2013 | 1 1 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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Editor's notebook: My grandma the food fighter
    It’s not often I write about someone in my own family. As the editor of a newspaper, I have to be judicious about how I use space in the paper — and about 98 percent of the time, I leave m...
Mar 28, 2013 | 2 2 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
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Commentary: Better ways to manage feral cats
Everyone appreciated the rescue tips about baby birds from Carol Carson's column, “Domestic cats pose serious threat to native wildlife,” (March 15, Page 9) published last week. However, she had on...
Mar 21, 2013 | 3 3 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
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Commentary: Be kind all the time
Sadly, the ending of the year 2012 will mostly be remembered for man’s inhumanity to man as witnessed in the town of Newtown, Conn. Each year’s end, I have made, and tried to follow, one New Yea...
Jan 03, 2013 | 3 3 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
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School safety in Scotts Valley
Unspeakable tragedy has descended upon Newtown, Conn., and our nation is left once again pondering the aftermath of a senseless school shooting. Parents and students are understandably shaken, whi...
Dec 27, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
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Always-on gadgets a social turnoff
In the past 10 years, we have seen technology take a huge role in our daily lives. As a teacher, I now take attendance, post grades and create homework links online, and so on. Some forms are supp...
Aug 16, 2012 | 2 2 comments | 18 18 recommendations | email to a friend
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Commentary: Good reason for CHP officers in Felton
by Capt. Matt Olson
Jul 26, 2012 | 21 21 comments | 9 9 recommendations | email to a friend
  I would like to formally and respectfully respond to the recent letter from Nick Clifford of Felton, titled “CHP too eager to ticket” (July 13, Page 6).  First, let us put to rest the ...
Poets Corner
Jul 05, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
Poems from teh Scotts Valley Arts Commission "Verse in the Valley" contest
Commentary: The forgotten soldiers
by Blaine Hammond
Jun 28, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 7 7 recommendations | email to a friend
“I wish we didn’t have to do this,” said our deacon, Jim Lieb, not for the first time. He was standing at the door to my office at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Ben Lomond. I had just handed ...
Commentary: Open letter in defense of community theater
by Trish Melehan
May 31, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Soon, the Bethany University Theater will close its doors indefinitely. This is a great loss to Scotts Valley. The theater had become the home of several local theater groups. Much labor and resour...
Commentary: Top two is new in California
by Gail L. Pellerin
Apr 26, 2012 | 2 2 comments | 6 6 recommendations | email to a friend
Ballots will be different this year
Editor's Notebook: Learn about the candidates
by Peter Burke
Apr 26, 2012 | 1 1 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend
Next week, we’ll all have several chances to get to know the three candidates running for 5th District county supervisor a little bit better. The Press-Banner and the Scotts Valley and San Lorenzo...