Every year for the past few years, in the weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve, I’ve enjoyed a very special duty. My mail carrier brings me all the letters that local children write to Santa Claus.
The Scotts Valley City Council had three choices before it Dec. 15: Allow and regulate medicinal marijuana dispensaries in Scotts Valley. Simply stay silent on the issue. Or prohibit dispensaries altogether.
BOULDER CREEK — After a two-day search of Big Basin Redwoods State Park, a man’s body with a single gunshot wound was found by sheriff’s search-and-rescue teams Thursday, Dec. 16.
Wet and stormy weather last weekend dumped more than 6 inches of rain on much of the San Lorenzo Valley and Scotts Valley, with high winds pulling down trees and knocking out electricity in some areas. Rainfall is expected through Dec. 26 before a letup.
A marathon session of the Scotts Valley City Council last week was long on debate and short on decisions regarding the Woodside project, a proposed commercial and residential development on Scotts Valley Drive where RVs of Merritt and the quarry once stood.
A 60-year-old Moss Landing man was killed in a crash on southbound State Route 17, authorities said.
California Highway Patrol officers responded at about 3:35pm...