A Word from Our Mayor
The signs draped on highway overpasses really do say it all: “Thank you Firefighters” “Thank you Cal Fire, Sheriff, Police, EMS.” The profound thanks and gratitude is from the heart and the feelings of appreciation are authentic and run deep. I believe this outpouring reflects a realization that our homes and way of life in our city really did hang in the balance and our fortuitous escape from disaster made people reflect on their good fortune.
Bean Creek run approaches
Signups are underway for the Bean Creek Run which returns to Scotts Valley Sunday, Oct. 20.
Bottles galore
Award-winning set designer Skip Epperson, chairman of the Cabrillo College Theater Arts program and longtime set designer for Cabrillo Stage, spent an hour and a half this week advising Scotts Valley High School’s Advanced Drama Class on how to build the set for the upcoming play “Urinetown.”
New businesses pop up in Boulder Creek
Two new businesses have found their way to Boulder Creek in the early part of 2012.
The San Lorenzo Valley Water District Board unanimously approved a Drought Recovery and Water Capital Surcharge
On Thursday, November 19, the San Lorenzo Valley Water District’s Board of Directors conducted a public hearing to give customers the opportunity to protest the proposed rate increase of $1 per every unit of 748 gallons of water consumed. If written protests against the proposed surcharge had been filed at or prior to the end of the protest hearing by a majority of the affected property owners, the District Board would not have approved the surcharge.
It is now illegal to trap bobcats in California
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife reminds bobcat trappers that beginning Friday, November 20, recreational and commercial bobcat trapping will no longer be allowed in California.
Cabrillo College enrollment drops after fires, pandemic
When Covid-19 began to sweep the U.S.—and brought with it an economic recession—Cabrillo College officials expected a jump in enrollment that typically comes with a battered economy.
But the college is now seeing a significant drop in those numbers, which it pins on the double...
Mark Stone to Discuss Legislative Reforms and Political Power Shifts in Sacramento
The League of Women Voters of Santa Cruz County invites the public to celebrate the 96th anniversary of the LWV at its annual luncheon on Sunday, February 21, 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the Seacliff Inn in Aptos. Keynote speaker, Assembly Member Mark Stone, will speak about how recent legislative reforms in Sacramento have shifted conventional political wisdom and power bases in dramatic and unpredictable ways.
Central Coast Good Fire Fair returns Saturday to Henry Cowell Redwoods...
California State Parks will host the third Central Coast Good Fire Fair and demonstration burn Saturday, Oct. 10, at Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park.
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