With last year’s winners not returning, the 2011 Race Thru the Redwoods title is up for grabs. Because of recent growth related to online registration, however, race-day entries for the popular 10-kilometer race on Aug. 21 may have to be turned away.

Sheriff’s deputies have arrested the owner of a scrutinized Felton Empire Road home for allegedly being under the influence of a narcotic and for possession of narcotics for sale.

A Mass of Christian burial was celebrated last week in Scotts Valley for longtime Ben Lomond resident Robert “Rob” Bussell, 60, who died at home after a four-month battle with cancer.

For Scotts Valley High School 17-year-old Kendra Kannegaard, the new hardwood floor in her family’s Scotts Valley home has changed her world.

Sporting attire better befitting the 1850s than the 21st century, 94 members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints spent three days and two nights over the weekend forging ahead on the hot and dusty trail across the Santa Cruz Mountains to learn about the history of their faith.

So much has changed in the past 100 years in Santa Cruz County — new roads paved, buildings built and demolished, trees logged and replanted, attractions come and gone — that many icons of the past in Scotts Valley and the San Lorenzo Valley are forgotten or unrecognizable to the untrained eye.

About 800 people enjoyed the second of four free Music at Skypark concerts Sunday, July 31. Many folks danced to the rock and horn sounds of Houserockers, which returned to this concert series for the third year in a row. Ben Lomond’s Coffis Brothers opened the concert with well-received folk-rock tunes.