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October 2, 2025

Don Quixote’s sold: Flynn’s is new name

The iconic Felton restaurant, Don Quixote’s International Music Hall, has been sold to local businessman Bradd Barkan for $2.2 million.

Boulder Creek Brewery site for sale

A For Sale sign appeared this week on the boarded-up front of the former Boulder Creek Brewery, an empty shell after being destroyed by fire in April 2015.Russell Gross, of Russell E. Gross Real Estate, said the sale price is $295,000.He said that while the building is just a shell, the property has an upgraded septic system, and has approved building permits to rebuild the restaurant.He said that any personal property, equipment, inventory, trademarks or licenses, including the liquor license, are not part of the sale offer.Steve Wyman, owner of the site, also owns Surfrider Cafe in Santa Cruz, and the Boulder Creek Brewery Outpost, a tavern, on the other side of Highway 9, one block north of the former brew pub.The brewery and restaurant had been a popular Boulder Creek venue, including life entertainment, and at one point had employed 45 to 50 workers.

Trout Farm submits plans to rebuild

The company that owns the Felton site where the Trout Farm Inn burned to the ground said this week it will seek building permits to rebuild the restaurant this year.

Middle School gym demolished

There was no dramatic explosion, no spectacular wrecking ball. The old gym at the Scotts Valley Middle School came down in slow, scraping, gnawing chunks, grabbed and pulled apart by three different-sized excavators with steel jaws.

Ben Lomond water tanks to be replaced

The San Lorenzo Valley Water District has opened the bid process for replacing a pair of 20,000-gallon redwood tanks in Ben Lomond used for drinking water.

French broom cutting begins

On May 8, the San Lorenzo Valley Water District, on a 3-2 vote, approved a five-part plan for the eradication of French Broom, an invasive plant species, from its sensitive Olympia Well Head, a protected watershed around an old quarry off West Zayante Road in Felton.

Roaring Camp train hits two cars

The Roaring Camp Beach Boardwalk Train collided this afternoon, July 3, with a minivan and an SUV in downtown Santa Cruz. There were no injuries.

Crime down in Scotts Valley

Scotts Valley’s new police chief, Steve Walpole, last week released the annual “Police Department Activity Report,” also known as the annual crime report, for 2016, and it was all good news.

Valley Gardens site in escrow

For fifth time in 10 years, Valley Gardens Golf Course is in escrow to sell the prime Scotts Valley property, as its business prospects dim.

Judge tells Vierra to pay $116,000 legal bill

Santa Cruz County Superior Judge John Gallagher last week handed Terry Vierra, a former director of the San Lorenzo Valley Water District, another courtroom defeat, this one with the  highest price tag yet.

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