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Just 26 miles away as the crow flies, enrollment has dropped 76% at the Ravenswood City School District in East Palo Alto; but here in the Santa Cruz Mountains, the San Lorenzo Valley Unified School District has seen a much more modest decline. Nevertheless, trustees...

While Scotts Valley’s civic calendar has been relatively light so far this year, behind the scenes there’s been plenty of activity. Hot on the heels of hiring 19 people to work for the municipality in 2022, as the community began to recover from the darkest...

For 104 years, the Beck family has been outfitting folks with footwear made to last. In 1919, Ole P. Beck launched the family business in downtown Salinas, and since then, the eponymous shoe store has been synonymous with quality brands and accessories. Boulder Creek is...

While many are aware of the San Lorenzo Valley Unified School District’s own charter school, which promotes non-traditional learning formats through Quail Hollow Homeschool, to Nature Academy all the way through Coast Redwood High School, local residents may be less aware the board also...

Closing arguments began Wednesday in a $72 million lawsuit against the California Department of Transportation that seeks to pin the agency with the majority of the blame for the death of a pedestrian along Highway 9 in the Felton area. Dana Scruggs, of Santa Cruz-based...

Residents of the Harmon Gulch neighborhood, just outside of Boulder Creek, whose road washed out in the recent storms, say Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) officials stood them up for multiple meetings set for a location some had to walk a mile or more...

A boy whose death spurred a series of changes in Scotts Valley—with educators placing a renewed focus on combating bullying—was honored Feb. 3 in a lunchtime ceremony at Scotts Valley High School. Mateo Deihl, a freshman who died by suicide one year ago after experiencing...

California Arts Council announced it plans to award two two-year grants to Friends of Olympia Station, dba Tandy Beal & Company, for 2023-25 to produce ArtSmart concerts, residencies and mentorships for teaching-artists throughout schools in the Central Coast. “Some people see art as a frill—but...

American Lung Association has released its annual State of Tobacco Control 2023 California Local Grades, and each of the five Santa Cruz County jurisdictions earned an overall grade of an A or B, ranking highly among the 482 incorporated cities and 58 counties in...

An assemblage of wet clods soared past the edge of a riverside home, landing with a thud in the front yard. Jan. 27 was the first day volunteers had begun work clearing out the mud left behind by three deluges at Mark Whitcomb’s Felton...