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As we step into 2025, we must acknowledge the unprecedented events that recently tested our community's resilience. Our long-held scientific belief that tornadoes do...

Plain Talk About Food | Finally, Dungeness Crab! A Culinary Cautionary Tale

January 24, 2025

“Be careful what you wish for, it might be more than you can handle.” That thought immediately came to mind, that late afternoon while staring...

The Mountain Gardener | For the Love of Roses

January 24, 2025

January is almost over with nary a raindrop. Our days have been lovely and many of my plants have started growing earlier than usual....

Finance | Date the Rate but Marry the House

January 17, 2025

Bummer Bob gripes over dinner, where most financial decisions get solved: “We just can’t afford a gorgeous river house in Brookdale now. Thirty-year mortgages...

The Mountain Gardener | Houseplants — Good for You and Your Home

January 17, 2025

I look out my sliding glass doors and see tall redwoods and stately oaks, but on the inside I enjoy the green and sometimes...

Plain Talk About Food | Napkins, Then and Now

January 10, 2025

“Mae West has been on more laps than a napkin.” —Walter Winchel Yesterday, while ironing my umpteenth holiday napkin, I was remembering our “napkin box”...

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News Briefs | Published Aug. 28, 2026

Arrest made in Scotts Valley fires

Highway 9 to close overnight near Boulder Creek on Monday

Entries open for 2026 Santa Cruz County Fair

Scotts Valley Fire District appoints Titus to board