Marvin Owen Prior

Lockwood Lane between Tan Oak Drive and Hidden Glen Drive in Scotts Valley will be closed overnight after a traffic collision downed a telephone pole on Monday afternoon.

Students at Brook Knoll Elementary School in Scotts Valley are hitting the books once again as the school year gets underway. They’re hitting the wall, too. With a mural, that is.

Ian Coggins

“The Loser” sits on a shelf inside a display case at Cutesy Cupcakes in Scotts Valley. This unusual cupcake — a sweet potato cake with dried prunes, frosted with a banana buttercream frosting — is a perfectly-cooked replica of the undercooked cupcake that cost owners Lacey Thompson and Jeanette Fitzgearl a chance at Cupcake Wars glory. The owners took their elimination from the Food Network show in a light-hearted manner and nicknamed the cake ‘The Loser’ because it cost them a chance to move to the second round of the competition.

Kathryn (Kate) Williams