In what can be a considered a win for neighbors, a proposed logging operation near Boulder Creek Golf and Country Club has shrunken its scope and chosen to send trucks carrying logs on a different, less inhabited route.
Some 30 Scotts Valley High School students will take the stage next Friday, singing and dancing as the curtain rises on the theater department's rendering of “Legally Blonde — The Musical.”
As the summer months approach in the midst of what's been described as a three-year drought, local water districts are taking steps to encourage customers to conserve water supplies that were not sufficiently replenished by the sparse winter rains.
Approximately 40 people descended upon the undeveloped lot between the Scotts Valley Senior Center and the Scotts Valley Community Center on Kings Village Road last Saturday to participate in the first day of work on what will become a community garden honoring the memory of Valley Churches United Missions' late founder, Annette Marcum.
An outbreak of measles in the Bay Area has Santa Cruz County health officials on alert, as the highly contagious disease has infected 49 people in California already this year.
Scott Weese, a division chief with Cal Fire CZU, spends plenty of time pouring over forest-fuel-environment maps and briefing safety crews on weather conditions.
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