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November 4, 2025

Plain Talk About Food | Oh Them Apples!

It was many years ago…I believe it would have been in late September, when Sister Agnes Marie corralled me, telling me to put on...

The Mountain Gardener | Japanese Maples in the Fall

I’m starting to see the beginning of fall color on some trees. It’s an exciting time of year. My friend, Kate, in Bonny Doon...

Guest Column | New Police Officers Join Scotts Valley

Scotts Valley works hard to maintain a full complement of community-oriented police officers. This article introduces recently hired Police Officers Seavana Patzke and Vitani...

Fitness | Fitness Helps Seasonal Depression

It’s that time again: The days get shorter with daylight savings, and poor weather conditions start to arrive. This is where seasonal affective disorder takes...

Letters to the Editor | Published Oct. 6, 2023

Felton Pump Track: Great Idea, Wrong Location  Please consider alternative Felton locations for a pump track, on other public land that does not have the...

The Mountain Gardener | Plant News You Can Use

A recent article in the New York Times caught my eye: Hot weather cherries, drought resistant melons and six other crops that are being...

Letters to the Editor | Published Sept. 29, 2023

Scotts Valley first responders are lifesavers The afternoon of June 28, my wife had a cardiac arrest at our home in Scotts Valley. Paramedics and...

Plain Talk About Food | The ‘Mysterious’ Lentil

Having been raised by an order of nuns from France, eating lentils was as commonplace as eating potatoes for me, both as a child...

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...

Guest Column | My Cardboard Box

The Next-Door Neighborhood website, daily, has someone asking for cardboard moving boxes or having used moving boxes to give away. I smile reading those...

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News Briefs | Published Oct. 31, 2025

Community Bridges WIC remains open during government shutdown  Community Bridges Women, Infants & Children (WIC) Program remains fully funded and operational ensuring continued support for...