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.”

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.”

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