Most of the county’s local agencies, including its special districts — fire, water, parks and recreation — have applied for bond money that will pay back property tax money borrowed by California to balance the state budget.
When the Boulder Creek Fire Protection District burned down an old wood-framed cabin in Boulder Creek during a training day in December, there was no sense of what could rise from the ashes.
Scotts Valley’s Jose Absalon Barrientos was killed Sunday afternoon on his way to a family picnic when a driver crashed head-on into his Harley-Davidson on Highway 1.