**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.

A small fire ignited this afternoon on the corner of Conference Drive and Mount Hermon Road just outside of Scotts Valley.

Downtown Felton was a bit on edge on Friday morning after the discovery of a suspicious package in the parking lot behind Redwood Pizzeria brought a response from the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office Bomb Squad.

The Scotts Valley Performing Arts Youth Shakespeare Program will stage “The Tempest: Revisited” and “Journey Fantastique: Art and Poetry in Motion” at the Bethany University Theater next weekend.

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The Scotts Valley Unified School District’s Board of Trustees announced June 29 that it has hired Penny Weaver, an assistant superintendent in San Mateo, to lead the district.