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TherapyWorks | Setting Goals That Support Your Mental Health

January 22, 2026

Finance | Generation X: Financial Success by Osmosis

The Mountain Gardener | Good Houseplants for You & Your Home

Plain Talk About Food | A Fresh Beginning

Scotts Valley School Bell | Back to School in 2026

The Mountain Gardener | What’s New? Gardening Trends for 2026

January 9, 2026

I like to keep up with new garden research as well as the new trends. We humans started growing food about 12,000 years ago...

The Mountain Gardener | The 2026 Pantone Color of the Year

January 2, 2026

Last year Pantone chose Mocha Mousse as their color of the year, which I’m sure looks great in a living room but the garden?...

Finance | Partnership and LLC Planning

December 31, 2025

Partnerships, filing March 17, enable two or more individuals or business entities to work together as a single business. Partnerships enable combinations of bright...

Plain Talk About Food | A PG&E Christmas

December 31, 2025

I had my grocery list in hand while stuffing a bag full of string beans for our Christmas dinner last week at Safeway market....

The Mountain Gardener | Wishing Everyone a Happy New Year 2026

December 23, 2025

Well, it’s happened again—we made it around the sun once more. As the calendar turns to a New Year, these are some of my...

Strictly Business | A Year-End Gratitude List of Women in Business

December 23, 2025

Perhaps you missed one of the articles this year that highlighted the collective power of women shaping the local business ecosystem. As this year winds...

Fitness | Healthy Habits Rather Than New Year’s Resolutions

December 23, 2025

Now is the time we all are thinking of changing a thing or two for 2026 to improve our lives. Many of us use...

The Mountain Gardener | ’Twas the Night Before Christmas 2025—A Poem for Gardeners

December 19, 2025

Twas the night before Christmas and all through the garden,The creatures were stirring, the deer got a pardon. The hummingbird feeders were hung by the...

Finance | Planning for the Price of Power

December 18, 2025

Hayek’s “Use of Knowledge in Society” illustrates the profound challenges that well-meaning but arrogant market planners have faced from widely dispersed market knowledge inadequately...

TherapyWorks | A Guide to Enjoying the Holidays Stress-Free

December 18, 2025

The holiday season may be “the most wonderful time of the year,” but it can also be a lot to manage. Between family expectations,...

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TherapyWorks | Setting Goals That Support Your Mental Health

Finance | Generation X: Financial Success by Osmosis

The Mountain Gardener | Good Houseplants for You & Your Home

Plain Talk About Food | A Fresh Beginning

Scotts Valley School Bell | Back to School in 2026

SOCIAL MEDIA

Scotts Valley declares emergency over sinkhole at key intersection

Overnight traffic control on Highway 9 in Felton begins Tuesday

News Briefs | Published Jan. 16, 2026

California State Parks to conduct pile burning at Big Basin, Henry...

One week of overnight traffic control on Highway 9 in Felton...