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Michele Fauss was sitting in twilight on the deck of the Boulder Creek home serving as a temporary refuge for her family after a fallen tree took their Shady Lane house out of commission, when the phone rang. You could hear the relief in her...

During the regularly scheduled March 15 council meeting, Scotts Valley began the challenging journey toward deciding how to plan for 1,220 new housing units in the upcoming Regional Housing Needs Allocation cycle. Taylor Bateman, Scotts Valley’s community development director, introduced the item, noting Kimley-Horn and...

From pirouettes to pliés, chaseé to echappé, Claire Clement and Grace Pullen know their ballet. The members of Agapé Dance Studio in Scotts Valley have been accepted into the prestigious Bolshoi Academy summer ballet intensive program for the summer of 2023, and both ballerinas...

A vehicle collided with a 40-year-old woman along Highway 9 in Ben Lomond, then drove off, on Sunday around 9:40pm. “For reasons still under investigation, the vehicle struck the pedestrian while the pedestrian was in the northbound lane,” said Sgt. E. Addy, of the California...

About 17,000 Pacific Gas and Electric Co. customers across the county were out of power on Wednesday as Department of Transportation (Caltrans) crews worked to clean up the mess of wires rendered like spaghetti by downed trees in the Santa Cruz Mountains. A number of...

Keidi Lewis, a Spanish and history teacher at Coast Redwood High School, part of the San Lorenzo Valley Unified School District’s dependent charter, describes the place she works as a best-kept secret she’d like the world to know about. That’s because the homeschool and independent...

As a leukemia survivor who’s aware of his fragile immune system, 53-year-old David Dougherty doesn’t often risk heading out into public with his 50-year-old wife, Rebecca. Caring for an adult son with autism also makes a carefree night on the town an uncommon occurrence for...

It’s part drama, part comedy and part horror. It’s the feeling of being a voyeur of a family’s Thanksgiving celebration. And it’s the domino effect of life’s realities interfering with best-laid plans and familial relationships… It’s “The Humans,” and it’s worth seeing. The recipient of...

In 2020, Big Basin Water Company (BBWC) suffered catastrophic losses to its infrastructure due to the CZU August Lightning Complex Fire, which ripped through the housing of the water company and left it completely devastated, resulting in a 100% loss of water for the...

It was a sell-out crowd for the big Alfred Hitchcock Festival opener last weekend at the new performing arts center in Scotts Valley. The life-size bird replica on his left shoulder of one attendee was proof of just how engaged local residents were in the...