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The Mountain Gardener | Wishing Everyone a Happy New Year 2026

December 23, 2025

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

Fitness | Healthy Habits Rather Than New Year’s Resolutions

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

Finance | Planning for the Price of Power

Guest Viewpoint | Strengthening Rural Resilience: The Vital Importance of Measure K

February 23, 2024

Within Santa Cruz County’s forests and mountainous neighborhoods, Measure K stands as a beacon of hope. For these residents—who have become far too familiar...

Plain Talk About Food | Attitude Adjustment

February 22, 2024

“Attitude is the ‘little’ thing that makes a big difference.” —Winston Churchill Each morning, I swing my legs over the side of my bed, slide...

The Mountain Gardener | How to Use Phenology in the Garden

February 22, 2024

Always on the lookout for potential problems in my garden, I can use all the help I can get. Solutions are out there. One...

Finance | Landlord Tax

February 16, 2024

Chairman Mao once paraded landlords before crowds to their deaths and many today would confiscate landlord’s control over property without recompense. When tax clients...

Guest Column | Why Have We Forgotten Our First Generation?

February 15, 2024

As a young child. I lived in Washington State in the ’30s in a boarding house owned by my aged uncle and aunt, where...

Fitness | Staying Motivated When You Want to Quit

February 15, 2024

One of the biggest issues of why many of the population aren’t seeing the results of working out, is because they give up and...

The Mountain Gardener | Allergy Season is Here

February 15, 2024

My neighbor Sue answered her door sneezing and coughing with puffy eyes and a red runny nose that Rudolph would envy. We live among...

Plain Talk About Food | Roses are Red, the Violet’s Blue…

February 9, 2024

It was in the year 1590, Sir Edmund Spense continued his poem… “the honey’s sweet, and so are you.” And the last two lines...

Guest Viewpoint | Proposed Water Rate Increase Doesn’t Address Common-Sense Issues

February 8, 2024

There’s a rumor afloat that all San Lorenzo Valley Water District Board Directors support a rate increase. As one of those Directors, and speaking...

The Mountain Gardener | A Rose by Any Other Name

February 8, 2024

When Juliet tells Romeo that “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” she must have been referring to the Compassion rose....

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The Mountain Gardener | Wishing Everyone a Happy New Year 2026

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

Fitness | Healthy Habits Rather Than New Year’s Resolutions

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

Finance | Planning for the Price of Power

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San Lorenzo Valley Water District extends deadline for committee applications

Santa Cruz County urges residents to take precautions ahead of storm

Felton’s new Ace Hardware to bring jobs and support for residents

Fatal crash on Highway 17 under investigation

California State Parks conducts pile burning in Santa Cruz Mountains