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The third and largest-to-date Scotts Valley Mural-in-a-Day project is set to cover the side of Scotts Valley Library, 351 Kings Village Road, in Scotts Valley on August 3 and 4.

Within weeks after the shooting death of Stephon Clark in his grandmother’s Sacramento backyard in March, who was shot eight times by Sacramento police officers who apparently mistook a cell phone for a gun, Assemblymember Shirley Weber, D-San Diego, introduced Assembly Bill 931. AB 931 proposes sweeping changes in state standards for the use of lethal force by police. The bill seeks to overturn the basis for use of lethal force by police from what is considered "reasonable" to what is considered "necessary." 

The General Election is November 8, but for the elected public officials in four districts, two water districts, one recreation district and two school districts, there will be no votes. All 22 candidates for offices in these districts in Boulder Creek, Scotts Valley, Felton and Ben Lomond were “appointed in lieu of election” this week, because there were no opponents.