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.

Highway 9 closed north of Boulder Creek

Bonnie J. Byrd

The Scotts Valley-based team 4 Men and a Clam captured their second straight win at the Santa Cruz Clam Chowder Cook Off last weekend.

A month after the passing of Valley Churches United Missions' founder and longtime Executive Director Annette Marcum, the organization's staff, volunteers, and board of directors are hard at work to continue her legacy.

It's now official. After a unanimous vote of the Scotts Valley Unified School District's Board of Trustees on Tuesday night, a proposal for a $35 million bond measure to replace the dilapidated Scotts Valley Middle School is officially headed for voters in the June 3 election.