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Mark your calendars for a fundraising event on October 10th at Bruno’s BBQ to help the two local families that just underwent kidney donation and kidney transplant operations. Reports are that the recipient, Stan Wilson and donor, Craig Yates are doing well after surgery.

Vickie Clark has been promoted to chief business official of the Scotts Valley Unified School District, following the departure of Karen Jelcick several months ago.

When an uninsured patient can expect to pay fees well north of $100 for a simple checkup — a figure that increases exponentially if anything is actually wrong — getting quality health care becomes a luxury few can afford.

SANTA CRUZ COUNTY—The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved this year’s budget, a behemoth $932 million spending plan that represents an 8% reduction in spending from the previous year. That decrease came as the county recovers from the CZU Lightning Complex...

Services will be held on October 21 for Glennon Culwell, who passed away peacefully, surrounded by family on September 25 in Scotts Valley. He was 91 years old.

The last time Scotts Valley got a new General Plan, Pete Wilson was California’s governor and Seagate Technology—which was still based in the community—hadn’t even expanded overseas. Back in 1994, when the last one was adopted, city leaders were predicting a major boom in population...

The air’s a bit hazy and it smells like someone’s having a campfire. It’s 11:11am on March 8, and fire appears to snake along the underbrush, lapping at twigs, cascading upwards, alongside ponderosa pine trees. But there will be no hotdogs and marshmallows today. And this...

A new year brings new faces to the staffs of almost every school because of retirements, leaves and changes of venue. The schools in Scotts Valley and the San Lorenzo Valley are no exception this fall.