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Valley Churches United Missions' Annual Gala Celebration was held on Thursday, December 3, at 5:30 p.m., at Scopazzi's Restaurant in Boulder Creek.

At approximately 3:15 AM today (01/28) an approximately 80 lineal feet on Bear Creek Road at the Eddie Ranch dropped off into Bear Creek destroying approximately 60 lineal feet of the District 8” water line and reducing Bear Creek Road to one lane.  This  location has been monitored for some time as the road has been sinking at this location as indicated by the layers of asphalt that have been place to correct the dip.  In fact as precautionary the District installed isolation vales at this location in anticipation of the road failure and has performed leak detection several times to ensure main line integrity.  This main is the feed to Bear Creek Estates and Ralston Ridge storage facilities.  Staff responded immediately shutting down mainline valves isolating the break and are in the process of installing a bypass main.  It is anticipated that  water supply will be restored to the approximately 20 homes that are experiencing an outage at this time as a result of the main break by 8:00 AM.   Fire flow in the area will be reduced through the bypass main.  Bear Creek Estates and Ralston Ridge have storage tanks and fire flow will not be affected. 

Maureen Stebbins, the Felton fixture who has owned and operated Mo’s Daycare for the past 37 years, is closing up shop.

Two separate events encouraging community policing are planned next week in Boulder Creek. The first, scheduled for Tuesday evening, Aug. 7, is National Night Out; an event organized by local communities nation-wide honoring public safety responders and celebrating the goals of community policing- that is, neighbors cooperating with law enforcement and firefighters to make their communities safer.

About 170 students were evacuated from a science camp at the YMCA location in Boulder Creek Wednesday afternoon. The remote camp is only accessible by a small bridge that authorities worried could fail in the stormy weather. Students from Silicon Valley and the East Bay were...

Scott Weese, a division chief with Cal Fire CZU, spends plenty of time pouring over forest-fuel-environment maps and briefing safety crews on weather conditions. The fire behavior analyst has been paying close attention to the scorching temperatures that broke records in March across California, but...

People in Santa Cruz County—along with Californians who live in eight others—will be allowed to apply for unemployment benefits if they lost work due to recent storms, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said today. The announcement, originally released April 28, covers self-employed, unemployed...

On Sunday afternoon, inmate firefighters battled flames that spread to just over 2 acres alongside their counterparts with Santa Cruz County, Cal Fire, Central Fire, Santa Cruz City and Bonny Doon fire departments—with help from California Highway Patrol officers—just north of Davenport, which was...