With the heavily saturated soil unable to secure their roots, trees fell like matchsticks Tuesday, Oct. 13, as the first major storm of the season hit Santa Cruz County.

Beulah Sutton stands just under 5 feet tall, with flashing dark eyes and white hair swept off her face. With her 102nd birthday just around the corner on Sunday, Oct. 18, Sutton plans to have a celebration with her son, Dallas A. Sutton Jr., who lives in Felton.

Bargetto Winery representative Addison Morphy chats with Patricia Schroeck of Healthy Chocolate and a guest Saturday, Oct. 10, at the second Scotts Valley Wine & Chocolate Festival at the Scotts Valley Community Center. The wineries and chocolatiers split the proceeds with the Scotts Valley Senior Center, which netted $1,800 from the event.

A celebration of life will be Saturday, Oct. 17, for Patricia Clara (Jones) Liebenthal, 84, of Ben Lomond, who died Oct. 10 at home with her children by her side.

The fight to free Boulder Creek’s Colter White from incarceration has intensified this week as his pending hearing date nears.

It was 5:04 p.m. Oct. 17, 1989, when the Loma Prieta earthquake shook Santa Cruz County to its core. For 15 seconds, the world shook as cupboards opened, chimneys fell, shelves full of groceries toppled, bridges groaned and cracked and the earth split.