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Scotts Valley
April 3, 2026

Dispatch Log

Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office

News Briefs

Art and wine in Bonny Doon

Seagate to lay off another 1,100

Scotts Valley-based Seagate Technology announced Wednesday that it will lay off approximately 1,100 members of its global workforce as part of a restructuring for the hard-disk manufacturer.

Eshoo telephone town hall meeting tonight

Representative Anna Eshoo, D-Calif., will be hosting a telephone town hall meeting tonight, Tues. May 12 at 7 p.m.

Felton Library may be threatened

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Business Notes

Loggers threw axes for accuracy and manned chainsaws for speed as Boulder Creek Hardware staged its annual Lumberjack Days on Saturday and Sunday, May 2 and 3, to celebrate the town’s logging history.

Owens trains citizens in preparedness

Fire engineer Nick Owens stepped up when many other Scotts Valley firefighters didn’t, taking on leadership of a program to train citizens to help their families and neighbors in a major disaster.

Press-Banner embraces Twitter

Joining more than 10 million others, the Press-Banner is now tweeting.

Prolific graffiti suspect arrested

Aptos’ Cody Chirolo, 21, was arrested April 29 in connection with at least 27 instances of graffiti across the county, including two spray-painted “murals” in Scotts Valley.

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Caltrans changes speed limits on portion of Highway 17

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...