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A voice rings out over the handheld radio: “Numerous callers reporting gunfire in the middle school gym.” With that, the first active shooter scenario of the afternoon kicks into gear. On July 14, at the San Lorenzo Valley Unified School District tri-campus, the Santa Cruz...

Highway 9 to close at Jaye’s Slide for utility work Highway 9 at Jaye’s Slide (PM 8.8) in Ben Lomond will be closed in both directions for utility work on Friday, July 28, from 9pm-6am, and Friday, Aug. 4, from 8am-8pm. Jaye’s Slide is located on...

Registration opens Monday for free school field trip program Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks (Friends) announced that online registration for Kids2Parks, an innovative park-equity program to bring students from Title 1 schools to state parks, will open Monday, July 31, at thatsmypark.org/k2p. Kids2Parks, a partnership...

As the father of a blended family, Christopher Bradford knows how to bring people together. Bradford, 43, moved to the San Lorenzo Valley after meeting his now wife, Antonia, in 2016. They were married in 2018, and in 2020, disaster struck his newfound home when...

A fire that broke out in a cabin at a construction company yard about a mile north of Ben Lomond on Tuesday spread to vehicles and storage containers on the property and left a man with serious burns, authorities said. A Ben Lomond Fire Protection...

Scotts Valley Unified School District will host a public hearing Wednesday to discuss a parcel tax that would raise revenue for student programs and teacher salaries. The meeting seeks to address the wealthy community’s struggle to maintain educational offerings. District officials have long complained that government...

A 34-year-old man was killed, and his passenger seriously hurt, after the truck he was driving struck a tree and flipped over just after 5pm yesterday, north of Boulder Creek, authorities said. The driver, Steven Taggart, 34, was headed towards town on Highway 9, south...

More than 40 breweries and 40 food and beverage vendors took part in the Hops n’ Barley Festival on Saturday, attracting dozens of vintage Volkswagen buses and punch buggies.  Adults were overjoyed to receive a shot glass so they could sample the wares of the...

On July 13, the Highlands Park Senior Center was teeming with frustrated San Lorenzo Valley residents. Customers of Big Basin Water Company (BBWC) gathered—in-person and virtually—to get updates on the potential receivership being planned for the utility following years of failing infrastructure and fiscal...

Elwin Haddix is 80 years old and “still ridin’” his 1997 Harley Heritage Springer. He’d been planning a three-day, 1,000-mile trip for nine people. “We used to do more, but we’re getting old,” he said. But first, he had to make a stop at the Santa...