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Air Force Airman 1st Class Shane Barron, a 2005 San Lorenzo Valley High School graduate and a 2007 graduate of NASCAR Technical Institute in North Carolina, graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas.

Scotts Valley police are investigating five burglaries of small commercial business on Scotts Valley Drive that occurred in the past month-and-a-half.

Highway 236 in Boulder Creek opened to one-way traffic on July 14 after being completely closed since June 22 while Caltrans crews brought in heavy machinery to repair the two-lane highway.

Bargetto Winery’s 2006 Santa Cruz Mountains Reserve merlot was selected as California’s best merlot by judges at the California State Fair’s annual wine competition in June in Sacramento.

The Responsible Local Development political action committee’s Web site, www.rldpac.org, was bombarded with sexually explicit, racial and derogatory statements in its comments section last week.