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September 11, 2025

Back-to-school charity drive

School is right around the corner, and Valley Churches United Missions knows that having new school supplies can help start a student’s year on the right track.

City Applying For $20K Green Bin Grant, Creating New Preserve Entry

Glenwood Preserve
The Scotts Valley City Council voted unanimously at its Feb. 16 meeting to empower Public Works Director Chris Lamm to apply for a $20,000 state grant it thinks it can get from a pot of money meant to help communities develop their organic waste...

Resolve to visit a spa in 2016

Each January gives us a wealth of opportunities to improve ourselves. It’s a chance to resolve to become a better person, to treat others kinder, to take care of ourselves, to lose weight, stop smoking, to get our finances in order, to learn a new hobby, to read “Gone With the Wind,” or “War and Peace,” if you are inclined.

Virgil Lee Grimes: Feb. 7, 1950 — March 12, 2013

A celebration of life and potluck honoring longtime Boulder Creek resident Virgil Lee Grimes will be held in Boulder Creek on April 7.

Gloria Susan Barnes: December 2, 1946 —Dec. 10, 2012

A celebration of life will be Jan. 26 in Ben Lomond for Gloria Susan Barnes, who died Dec. 10 at home in Brookdale. She was 66.

Dispatch Log

Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office

News Briefs

County traveler info system in the works

Car fire on Granite Creek extinguished

A vehicle fire that started at about 3:50 p.m. on the 2900 block of Granite Creek Road in Scotts Valley was quickly extinguished by the Scotts Valley Fire Department Wednesday afternoon.

Dispatch Log

Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office

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Felton Fire District to review parcel tax proposal at meeting Thursday

Felton Fire Protection District (FFPD) Board of Directors has scheduled a special meeting on Thursday, Sept. 11, at 6 p.m. to discuss a proposed...