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For anyone who enjoys a good “whodunit” mystery, here’s the setup: The long-running soap opera ”The Bold and the Young” is in its last days. Its hunky hero has self-esteem issues, its villainous old man is more interested in soup and its heroines are slightly psychopathic....

Disaster preparedness event planned Saturday in Aptos The Long Term Recovery Group of Santa Cruz County, Amateur Radio Emergency Services and the Community Emergency Response Team will host a disaster preparedness event Saturday, June 6, at the Aptos Grange. The event is scheduled from 1-5pm and...

After parents advocated for full-day kindergarten at consecutive school board meetings, the San Lorenzo Valley Unified School District said it was willing to explore the idea. Dylan Fetzer, a Ben Lomond resident who has a boy entering transitional kindergarten (TK) next year, says it’s something...

A convicted rapist named Michael Cheek, who psychologists have said could be at risk of reoffending, wants to become the newest Bonny Doon resident, and District Attorney Jeff Rosell says he’s trying to stop that from happening. “We fought tooth and nail at every opportunity...

Work continued this week to protect Scotts Valley and surrounding communities against the threat of wildfire, in a project involving two different state agencies. The California Conservation Corps and Caltrans came together for the initiative meant to eliminate chances for fire to spark along Highway...

SANTA CRUZ—The Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission (RTC) on Monday unanimously approved a plan to continue with virtual meetings for the coming year, as the Omicron variant of Covid-19 spreads and governing agencies across the state make similar moves. Agencies that are continuing to...

Applications open for Youth Poet Laureate Santa Cruz Public Libraries, in collaboration with Urban Word, the Santa Cruz County Office of Education, the Rotary Club of Santa Cruz and the Arts Council Santa Cruz County, is seeking applicants to serve as the county’s third Youth...

Travelers on Highway 9 south of Felton will encounter daytime one-way traffic control as crews perform emergency repairs to drainage systems, announced Caltrans on Wednesday. One-way reversing traffic control will be in effect on Highway 9 one-half mile south of Glengarry Road, Wednesday through Friday,...

Highway 35 near Bear Creek Road reopens to through traffic Highway 35 near Bear Creek Road in the Santa Cruz Mountains has reopened under one-way reversing traffic control as of Dec. 1. Since reopening, this location is now subject to one-way reversing traffic control by means...

In August of 2020, local artist Mary May Tartaro almost lost it all. She and her family lived on 25 acres in the San Lorenzo Valley with multiple buildings on their property, including their family home, Tartaro’s artist studio, her son’s cabin, a guest...