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October 5, 2025

Commentary: Top two is new in California

Your ballot will look different for this June 5 Presidential Primary Election. The change is due to the fact that California voters passed Proposition 14 in June 2010, enacting a top-two primary voting system.

Your Health: Hay fever hits hard

Allergic rhinitis, commonly called hay fever, affects as much as 40 percent of children and 10 to 30 percent of adults in the United States. It is “seasonal” if symptoms occur at particular times of the year and “perennial” if they remain year round.

Let’s go fishing: Fantastic salmon opener suggests a lively season

April 7 was opening day of salmon season, and it started with a bang.

New Faces

- Joseph Carl Bollom IIIwas born to Meara Christine Toussaint and Joseph Carl Bollom of Boulder Creek at 8:48 p.m. March 15, 2012. Weighing 8 pounds, 8 ounces, he was delivered at Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz. 

The Wine Lover: Wine so sweet

There are a couple of ways to make a dessert wine. Of course, the cheap and easy way is to simply add sugar to the wine. This practice, however, is only used with cheap, poorly made, quaffing wines. The other way is to let the “residual” sugar in the wine sweeten it naturally.

Valley Neighbors: A feed store story

Animals have always had a special place in Christine Richie's heart.

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Greg Wimp

Sandwich shop owner appointed to Scotts Valley Council

As Greg Wimp, the owner of multiple area Togo’s sandwich shop locations, stepped up Oct. 1 to address Scotts Valley City Council about why...