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November 27, 2024

Letter: Choice is important

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Poetry Corner: The Rains Return (to Santa Cruz County)

The Rains Return (to Santa Cruz County)

Letter: Try walking in her shoes

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Guest Column | Despite Fiscal Uncertainty, the County Accomplished a Great Deal in 2023

2023 began with back-to-back extreme weather events that resulted in severe flooding, landslides and other impacts to our roads, neighborhoods and businesses in the mountainous Fifth District. Even as we continue addressing the damage, we are still grappling as a County with the aftermath...

Commentary: Healthy living, Put this in your pipe and smoke it

The recent arrival of two tobacco shops in Scotts Valley has caused concern for some residents, particularly parents of young and impressionable students. Some of the recent phone calls and e-mails I have received noted the close proximity of one smoke shop to our local middle school, as well as concern over the pipes, bongs and related paraphernalia often associated more with the drug culture than tobacco use. The smoke shop near the middle school offers ice cream snacks, which one parent likened to an attractive enticement for curious students.

The Mountain Gardener | Plant Combinations That Inspire

You know it when you see it. That combination of plants that cry out “we get along.” Because it’s fall already after a way-too-short summer, I’m drawn to grasses and warm-toned flowering perennials.  I’m thinking of ways that will have any garden bursting with interest...

Letters to the Editor | Published May 19, 2023

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Frustrated with Ferrellgas My husband and I are residents of Boulder Creek. We’ve been long-time Ferrellgas customers. Until this winter, we’d been very happy with their service. We maintained a significant positive credit balance “just in case,” and were on “automatic” tank refills.  Then something happened—Ferrellgas...

Letter: Show some compassion

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New Scotts Valley Council members look forward to making their mark

After first-place finisher Donna Lind, the incumbent for Scotts Valley City Council, local voters selected Steve Clark—a retired law enforcer, known for volunteering around...