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July 8, 2025

Disclosure Forms Show Backers On Both Sides Of Rail Fight

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At the same time county officials were preparing to announce whether or not the trail-only ballot initiative made it across the certification finish line Monday, the camps for and against were busy submitting their legally-required financial documents. Greenway indeed secured the needed signatures for their...

Library fundraising tops $250K

Friends of Scotts Valley Library has met its initial goal of raising $250,000 and will continue fundraising for capital improvements and programming to outfit the new branch in town.

Valley People: Scotts Valley doctor recognized by peers

Dr. David Hunter, a longtime resident of Scotts Valley, recently traveled to Huntington Beach, where he was honored for his work with CEPAmerica, the largest physician-owned emergency medical group in the U.S. 

What’s next for Valley Gardens Golf Course

Skepticism about growth and questions about water and traffic were common concerns of the neighbors who attended an open house on the Valley Gardens Golf Course last week. The open house showed revised project plans of the proposed development of 142 relatively high-end, single family homes and 51 apartments on the golf course, which is scheduled to close at the end of the year.

Be prepared; the next ‘big one’ could happen anytime

In the Aug. 16, 1989 issue of the old Valley Press, geologist Vasiliki Vassil wrote the first of a series of articles addressing the series of fault lines in Santa Cruz County in the wake of a 5.1-magnitude earthquake that had struck a week earlier on Aug. 8.

David Charles Millet: Aug. 22, 1950 — March 11, 2013

Family members will privately scatter the ashes of Dave Millet, who died in Ben Lomond from complications of cancer. He was 62.

County planning director to step down

Santa Cruz County Planning Director Tom Burns announced recently that he will step down from the position he’s held for six years.

ELECTION 2016: Measure D still too close to call

Measure D, which would levy a new half-cent Santa Cruz County sales tax to fund $17 million a year in transportation improvements, hovered just above the two-thirds margin required for approval this week.

Transportation plan seen as asset in Scotts Valley’s search for funding

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SCOTTS VALLEY—The Scotts Valley City Council at its March 17 meeting unanimously approved a detailed plan tabbed by City Manager Tina Friend as a tool that would bring the small city in the northern reaches of Santa Cruz County into the “next generation” of...

Business Notes: Valley kids’ center throws fall festival

The Children’s Center of the San Lorenzo Valley, 8500 Highway 9, in Ben Lomond, will host a fall harvest fundraiser and salute to local firefighters Oct. 25.

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News Briefs | Published July 4, 2025

Tree removal leads to temporary closure on Big Basin Highway Caltrans will temporarily close a section of southbound Highway 236 (Big Basin Highway) left on...