The Mountain Gardener: Ask the expert
With each new season, we start fresh with high expectations for a bountiful harvest of vegetables and mouth-watering fruit, fragrant flowers to pick for bouquets and healthy plants to attract beneficial insects to the garden. As the months pass, it seems one problem after another crops up.
Plain Talk About Food: Plain talk about fried chicken
Nothing pleases me more than a Sunday's drive up Alba Road in Ben Lomond on a warm sunny day.
Playoff runs end for local teams
Both the San Lorenzo Valley High School softball and baseball teams made it past the first round of the Central Coast Section playoffs last week, and both teams fell in the second round in tightly contested contests.
The Mountain Gardener: Hidden Gardens of Bonny Doon – a self guided tour.
When: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., May 19 and 20
News Briefs | Published Sept. 12, 2025
Fun run, emergency preparedness fair set for Saturday
On Saturday, Sept. 13, the City of Santa Cruz will be hosting Race the Wave, a 3K...
