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Tonight, the Scotts Valley City Council will consider making cuts to the city budget -including layoffs and furlough - to shrink an annual deficit brought on by tough economic conditions and the 2011 expiration of the Measure C sales tax.

Scotts Valley Police detectives have cleared Harbor High School head football coach Travis Rebbert in the burglary of more than $25,500 from his Scotts Valley office last week.

More than $13,500 in cash and $12,000 in checks were stolen from an unlocked desk drawer in a Scotts Valley office earlier this week.

Mark Stone, Santa Cruz County Fifth District supervisor and Scotts Valley resident, was appointed to the California Coastal Commission this week.

Boulder Creek Rec wins grant

Oral arguments are set to begin in Michael McClish’s appeal of a 2007 jury conviction that sent the Ben Lomond resident to prison for sodomy, rape and assault with a deadly weapon.

The nonprofit Valley Churches United Missions is collecting donations to help 59 adults and seven children displaced by the Aug. 18 fire at the Brookdale Inn and Spa.