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Keeping your kid content has proven to be one of the trickiest challenges throughout this quarantine.  Fortunately enough, a longtime Scotts Valley resident and business owner is stepping up, to help keep your kiddos safely occupied at no cost.  Ryan Teves, the founder of Brainstorms Learning Center, has decided to waive the fee on his latest startup, Nextbooks. 

Syda Coglaiti and Zach Schwarzbach, candidates for Superior Court Judge, squared off in a face-to-face community forum on May 17th – answering the same, wide-ranging questions read to them by the moderator Brenda Griffin- responding with often similar but somewhat nuanced answers, but also with answers that differed substantially.   

Ben Lomond-based pop-rock band My Stupid Brother has released a music video to their single "Falling Off". The band is made up of siblings George (22) and Henry (20) Chadwick and drummer Tyler Raynes (20).

Head Coach Dave Poetzinger returns for another season of leading the Cougars’ football team. For 20 years, Poetzinger was the right-hand man of retired coach Doug Morris. During that era, the Cougars won the numerous Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League’s football titles and made high rounds of CCS tournament. Some refer to that time as the ‘glory years’ for the Cougars. Last year, SLVHS returned to the CCS playoffs for the first time since 2010, with 8-3 overall, 4-1 league record and Poetzinger was voted league's Coach of the Year.

Under a bright blue sky with the train whistle echoing through Roaring Camp Railroads, 108 people from 27 countries raised their right arms and solemnly repeated the oath that made them citizens of the United States.

Longtime Scotts Valley resident Frederick Dean Cummings, 77, died Oct . 4 at his home in the Santa Cruz Ranch RV Park, where he had lived since 1976. No services are planned.