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Scotts Valley
October 13, 2026

Clear address markings may be essential in emergencies

For the most part, family, friends, neighbors and postal carriers already know where you live.

Datebook: Ongoing events in the valley

Together in the Park

Letter:Something to hide?

EDITOR,

The Mountain Gardener: Eat your heart out with food-named plants

Have you noticed how many plant varieties are named after food?

Crisis calls for alternatives

California’s budget crisis and the governor’s proposed $24 billion dollars of cuts and borrowing have provoked thousands of constituents to contact me. Educators, in-home support service (IHSS) providers, healthy families advocates, state parks supporters, and many others have lodged strong opposition to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s May revised budget proposals that seek to balance California’s budget on the backs of our state’s most vulnerable and needy.

Nature Friendly: Leaving no stone unturned

If I wanted to know how people of the Holocene period lived, what they ate, what they wore and what their houses were like, all I would have to do is look around.

Your Health: Safety and the H1N1 vaccine

There’s an abundance of hype in the media these days concerning the safety and necessity of the H1N1 swine flu vaccine.

Datebook

Submit Datebook items to pbeditor@pressbanner.com, or drop off press releases or photos at 5215 Scotts Valley Drive, Ste. F, Scotts Valley 95066. Deadline is 5 p.m. Tuesday. Entries are subject to editing, and publication is not guaranteed. Check out www.pressbanner.com to submit your own listings that will appear in our online Datebook.

Commentary: The forgotten soldiers

“I wish we didn’t have to do this,” said our deacon, Jim Lieb, not for the first time.

Club Roundup

Kiwanis Club of Scotts Valley

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