Kip Tellez, trustee of the San Lorenzo Valley Unified School District, announced his resignation as a trustee at the Sept. 7, 2016 board Meeting, effective Thursday, Sept. 8.
The Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission this month selected 16 projects to receive $7 million in local shares of federal transportation funds.
Scotts Valley Chief of Police John Weiss is looking for a few good people to join the department. He admits he is having a difficult time finding applicants for four positions: two entry-level police officers and two police dispatchers.
On Sept. 17, volunteers across Santa Cruz County – and the state – will combine efforts in a single day to clean rivers and beaches from a summer’s worth of carelessness.
Thirty years ago Al Haynes, of the San Lorenzo Valley Water District, started the first River & Road Cleanup with the aid of the Valley Women’s Club. SLV students were involved from the start, joining families and friends and removing hundreds of tons of trash and recyclables.
Competing groups are lining up on opposite sides of a November ballot measure to fund new highway projects in Santa Cruz County with a sales tax increase.
It may be the beginning of the school year, but California schools got their report cards last week, the results of tests given to students in seven grades across the state.
California election law, Elections Code 334, describes a "nonpartisan office" as an office, except for a voter-nominated office, for which no party may nominate a candidate. Judicial, school, county, and municipal offices are nonpartisan offices.
The Press Banner and the Scotts Valley Chamber of Commerce will be joint sponsors of a public forum for Scotts Valley City Council candidates on Oct. 6.
Santa Cruz METRO transit has reversed itself and restored two extra morning routes for San Lorenzo Valley students that were to be terminated on Sept.8