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October 4, 2025

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.”

‘Pippin’ to open at San Lorenzo Valley High

Hippies in the Dark Ages will hit the stage next week when the curtains open for San Lorenzo Valley High School’s rendition of the Broadway musical “Pippin.”

Tax extension effort a no-go

A recent campaign by Scotts Valley City Councilwoman Stephany Aguilar to collect the 1,400 signatures needed to ask voters to continue the city’s quarter-cent sales tax past March 31 appears to have come up short. At least for now.

News Briefs

Church donates to library, charity

Marion Elizabeth Faria May 25, 1928 — Jan. 31, 2011

Longtime Boulder Creek resident Marion Elizabeth Faria died in Boulder Creek on Jan. 31. She was 82.

Science Talk

Library leaders delay decision

After hearing from about 40 passionate library supporters, nearly all of whom urged leaders to keep open all 10 branches in the system, the Santa Cruz County Library Joint Powers Authority delayed a decision on the future of the libraries.

‘Check engine’

Most drivers have seen it, but many remain unsure what it really means when the check-engine light flicks on in the dash display.

Dispatch Log

Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office

Members learn value of 4-H

Many people understand 4-H to be a youth organization in which members participate in our Santa Cruz County Fair and other fairs to show their livestock. This is a very narrow view of the vast world of 4-H, a globally recognized organization in which youth learn leadership skills, experience community service and citizenship and demonstrate public speaking skills, all in an atmosphere full of support and camaraderie.

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Greg Wimp

Sandwich shop owner appointed to Scotts Valley Council

As Greg Wimp, the owner of multiple area Togo’s sandwich shop locations, stepped up Oct. 1 to address Scotts Valley City Council about why...