Services will be held in Felton this Saturday, June 30, for Isabel K. Benscoter, who died at home in Scotts Valley at the age of 97. She was known as “Yaya” to her grandchildren and friends.
Residents might be excused for taking community for granted in the San Lorenzo Valley or Scotts Valley, where it sometimes seems impossible to go anywhere in town without running into someone you know.
An Orthodox funeral service was held June 11 at Sts. Peter and Paul Antiochian Orthodox Church in Ben Lomond for Solomon Johnson, who died of unknown causes June 4 in Oakland. He was 33. Burial was in Felton Cemetery.
A United States District Court judge in San Jose granted a preliminary injunction against a Scotts Valley man and four financial companies he controlled based on accusations of investment fraud of more than $60 million.
Born of her own experience with gluten intolerance, a Felton cookie maker has found a niche baking gluten-free sweets that taste like their wheat-based counterparts.