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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.