It was an exceptionally warm July afternoon in the San Lorenzo Valley. I was just on my way back to the Press-Banner’s fortress of journalism from an assignment in Ben Lomond when I discovered that, in my absence, my black car with the dark grey interior had attained a heat level normally reserved for the inside of a volcano.
A handful of local businesses are among the 63 in the county that earned kudos from the Santa Cruz County Friday Night Live Partnership for being against selling alcohol to minors.
The San Lorenzo Valley Water District will host two public meetings Tuesday, July 26, to hear what people in the community think about where the district should be headed in the next five years.
**Editor’s Note: On July 7, the Assemblies of God Northern California/Nevada district finalized the closure of Bethany University. The 92-year-old private Christian college is working on the potential sale of the campus to another Christian university and also determining where its records will be kept.
The massive rock slide on Nelson Road in Scotts Valley is going nowhere fast. No funding has materialized to repair an estimated $2.6 million in damage to the two-lane road, despite applications by the county to state and federal emergency agencies.