The Lompico Watershed Conservancy has donated seven unusable land parcels in the Lompico area to the County of Santa Cruz as the 15-year-old group prepares to dissolve as a nonprofit organization.
In the wake of a Dec. 14 school shooting that killed 20 students and six educators in Newtown, Conn., trustees of the Scotts Valley and San Lorenzo Valley unified school districts have been searching for ways to secure local classrooms against an intruder on campus.