A 24-hour windstorm with gusts up to 60 miles per hour have caused branches and trees to fall all over Scotts Valley and the San Lorenzo Valley causing widespread power outages throughout the two valleys.

Teams from Ponderosa and San Lorenzo Valley high schools placed in the top six of the 2011 Santa Cruz Forestry Challenge in Boulder Creek last month.

More than 500 people attended Boulder Creek's annual tree lighting festival in downtown, Friday, Nov. 25. Santa Claus was played by Mark Cosentino and Mrs. Claus by Rose Wiswell. They rode into Boulder Creek on a firetruck signifying the start to the Christmas season.

A former San Lorenzo Valley Unified School District board member has entered the race for Santa Cruz County Supervisor in the 5th District.

Scotts Valley had a brush with Hollywood when the cast and crew of A&E Television’s show “Storage Wars” filmed an episode Nov. 11 through 14 at the Storage Depot on Mount Hermon Road.

Much like small-town life itself, Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Our Town” has sometimes been unfairly characterized as hokey or naïve. Director Peter Gelblum aims to correct that notion with Mountain Community Theater’s production of Wilder’s classic play about the residents of a small town that could easily be in the San Lorenzo Valley.

Ben Lomond resident Gerald Hatcher is an oceanographic engineer for the United States Geological Survey Pacific Science Center team that is responsible for the mapping of the ocean floor and countless sub-surface tasks throughout the Pacific Ocean.