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Many Scotts Valley residents take the headline on the developer’s website seriously- “The chance to build a Town Green in Scotts Valley is a once in many generations opportunity.” Reactions were many and varied to two, conceptual project plans presented at the second community workshop for the massive Town Center project being planned on the former SkyPark Airport.

In an effort to raise funds for the Automotive Tech club at De Anza College, a group of students will be hosting a car show at the Canepa classic car museum in Scotts Valley.

Scotts Valley's Town Center plan — a proposed upscale retail and residential hub — took a big step forward last week when the Santa Cruz City Council voted to approve the sale of 8.15 acres of city-owned property from the former Skypark airport to Property Development Centers.

Friends and family will gather Saturday, March 6, for a memorial walk and two receptions for Dr. Lawrence “Larry” Rawson, 95, who died of pneumonia and complications Feb. 12 at the Veterans Affairs Hospital Palo Alto Hospice.

On Monday, July 13, 2015, Liberty Bank in Felton was robbed. A security tape of the event shows a man wearing a white shirt, dark pants and a white cap with a bill. He was carrying a gun.New Leaf employee, Chris Jakubisin, said “I was on my way to take care of the bank order when a squad car pulled up and the deputy sheriffs jumped out armed with guns.” There was a police tape separating the parking lot in front of the New Leaf Market and Liberty Bank.A visitor from Los Angeles, Joe Wolf, said “I was in the bank just before the robbery and I was watching two men that I did not know were bank robbers.” Wolf said that the two men were dressed plainly. He said, “this is if the individuals I noticed were in fact the suspects.” Asked what they looked like, Wolf said “one was short and the other was tall and thin, very thin.”Lt. Kelly Kent said that a single person carrying a black semi-automatic handgun locked four Liberty Bank employees and two customers in the vault. No one was hurt. The robber was a Caucasian male in his early to mid twenties with no facial hair. He fled to the back of the bank said Lt. Kelly. He said, “it is possible that there could have been a second person who was a driver."Wolf said that about six minutes after the robbery, the deputy sheriffs showed up and closed down the street between Highway 9 and Graham Hill Road. The video shows the emergency vehicles showing up.“There were six cars and three vans” said Wolf. “The officers were wearing bullet proof vests and they closed the streets down on the left and right sides and asked bystanders to clear the area.”Scotts Valley Police Department sent their K-9 unit. The dog did not find the robber's trail.Crime Scene Investigators, detectives, FBI and patrol deputies are seeking clues, said Lt. Kelly.Beth Hollenbeck called the Press-Banner and said that she had been asked to leave the area around the bank. She was able to photograph the scene from the south side of the bank.A video made by Wolf shows a teller leaving the bank with his hands up as he approached an officer. Wolf said that if the officers had arrived about two minutes earlier it may have resulted in a hostage situation. He said “they got away without having to take a hostage.”

Scotts Valley’s Nancy Hofmann won this year’s local Verse in the Valley Poetry Contest, reciting her poem at the SV City Council Meeting last Wednesday.

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Friday, Sept. 7, is the final day to submit comments to the Monterey Bay Unified Air Pollution Control District before the district’s board votes on an air-quality control plan targeted specifically at smoke pollution from outdoor yard waste burns in the San Lorenzo Valley.