A Scotts Valley Unified School District employee was awarded more than $2 million from a statewide insurance fund the district pays into after she sustained severe injuries in a car accident while on a school field trip in May 2007.
Mike Brandy of Scotts Valley, a retired vice chancellor of Foothill-DeAnza Community College District in Santa Clara County, is the district’s new interim chancellor.
Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park and Big Basin Redwoods State Park would be among the 220 California state parks and beaches that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proposes to close as part of his latest plan to narrow California’s $24.3 billion budget deficit.
Scotts Valley, Felton and Boulder Creek libraries took major hits as the county library board slashed $1.3 million in an attempt to balance the system’s 2009-10 budget.
Scotts Valley will acquire the cavernous Scotts Valley Sports and Event Center for $4.5 million and convert most of it into a new library branch that could be open as early as next year.
A 3 percent salary increase due to firefighters July 1 will be postponed under an agreement between firefighters and directors of the Scotts Valley Fire Protection District.
County residents including people in Scotts Valley and the San Lorenzo Valley are being flooded with phony prize notices that claim to be from Pepsi and Reader’s Digest announced the Santa Cruz District Attorney’s office on Tuesday.
Caltrans announced March 18 that speed limits will change on a 0.74-mile segment along Highway 17 in Santa Cruz County, following a recent engineering...