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Scotts Valley High School star distance runner Jeremy Kain continued his record-breaking season with a victory in the 1,600-meter run in 4 minutes, 10.91 seconds at June 26’s California State Track and Field Championships at Arcadia High School. “It ranks probably as number one,” Kain...

Santa Cruz Mountains residents who want to see Sutter Health’s urgent care location in Scotts Valley remain open now have their federal representative actively on their side. Congresswoman Anna G. Eshoo on June 25 wrote a letter demanding the health care giant reverse course...

SANTA CRUZ COUNTY—The Santa Cruz County Public Health Department announced Tuesday that a resident has tested positive for the Delta variant of Covid-19. The patient is a man in his 50s who experienced mild symptoms. The sample was taken on June 10, county spokesman Jason...

Get ready, San Lorenzo Valley Unified School District. A new superintendent has been selected, and he’s ready to lead the district to great heights. On June 9, after 24 years with the district, including stints as a teacher, school site principal, director of secondary education,...

Taking in a presentation during their June 16 meeting, Scotts Valley City Council members said there was a lot to like of what could become the next 10 Scotts Valley homes. They generally felt the 1.04-acre Bay Village Planned Development, with its six single-family...

At the outset of the regularly scheduled Scotts Valley City Council meeting June 16 Mayor Derek Timm gave a shout-out to the local LGBTQ+ community with an official “Mayor’s Proclamation” for Pride Month. “June has become a symbolic month in which lesbians, gay men, bisexual...

The Scotts Valley City Council unanimously passed its annual budget on June 16, dipping into its rainy day fund in hopes of being catapulted back to financial health after the novel coronavirus sent finances into disarray. The $1.4 million deficit plan will draw down reserves...

Mountain Community Theater’s (MCT) Peter Gelblum knows a good story when he hears one. Whether it’s one of loss or perseverance, success or struggle, Gelblum is a student of the human condition, and he uses that insight to help shape his actors into storytellers...

There are words that will define this generation of children who were raised in the Santa Cruz Mountains, impacted by Covid and chased from their homes by fire: Strong. Resilient. Tested. Driven. Those words also fit the 2021 San Lorenzo Valley High School boys’ basketball...

The morning of June 4 found San Lorenzo Valley High School Principal Jeff Calden back on the mic as he led the Class of 2021 through their graduation ceremony. After a year of hits and misses, Calden was thrilled to watch his charges stride...