Ben Lomond firefighter Mike Zerweck was part of a volunteer fire crew who controlled a house fire at 290 Urbana Lane inBen Lomond on Sunday morning. Among Zerwick’s duties was rescuing a family dog and returning it to the happy owner.

The Smithsonian Institution has chosen the San Lorenzo Valley Museum to host “The Way We Worked,” an exhibition that is part of the Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street project.

Representatives of the various school districts in Santa Cruz County including Scotts Valley and San Lorenzo Valley, along with representatives of child care and early childhood education, convened on New Brighton Middle School in Capitola on Tuesday, March 4 to the annual “Together for Kindergarten” forum, in order to discuss ways to further prepare children to enter kindergarten.

The folds, hems and cuts are in all the right places for Scotts Valley’s Jill Alexander, who held the grand-opening of her first retail store for plus-sized women in town last weekend.