• Start cleaning up your lawn when the grass is no longer sopping wet and planting beds are no longer muddy. Rake your lawn to let light and air touch the soil and to encourage your grass to grow.
San Lorenzo Valley Elementary School fourth-graders pore over the Webster’s Thesauruses given to them last week by the SLV Rotary Club as part of an effort to promote local literacy.
Once-a-decade U.S. Census forms began arriving in mailboxes across the county this week, and outreach efforts to encourage residents in the rural San Lorenzo Valley area to participate are especially high.
A 24-year-old woman in a Ford Taurus drove off the edge of Bean Creek Road in Scotts Valley and tumbled down an embankment more than 100 feet to the forest floor Wednesday afternoon, March 17, sustaining only minor injuries.
Scott Weese, a division chief with Cal Fire CZU, spends plenty of time pouring over forest-fuel-environment maps and briefing safety crews on weather conditions.
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