A reader left an online comment on my first column last week with a question about where I came from and why I moved here. I really didn’t think about it again until I sat down on my deck last night to read The New York Times on my Kindle.
UPDATE: Firefighters got a toehold overnight on the massive fire raging near Bonny Doon, reporting 5 percent containment on a fire that's now consumed 4,100 acres.
A walk through the Scotts Valley High School campus this week shows a sight that has been all too familiar to students, parents and administrators since the school was built in 1999:
Kelly Chew, owner of The Card Shark printing and graphic design, threw a pizza party at Santa Cruz Pizza Co. for the Scotts Valley Little League team his company sponsors.
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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