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October 5, 2025

Your Health: How to recognize blood clots

As summer vacation rapidly approaches, many of us are planning to travel on commercial aircraft. It has long been known that, with air travel, there is a risk of forming blood clots in the legs, a condition called deep vein thrombosis. Fortunately, this is not very common during travel, but there are other situations that place a patient at risk for DVT that I will also discuss.

Comedy Corner: Michael’s pet peeves

When someone asks me how my life is going, I say, “I can’t complain.”

Club Roundup

SLV Rotary Club

Escape from Alcatraz

Nearly 300 non-inmates, made the daring swim from Alcatraz Island back to the East Beach finish line at the Presidio in San Francisco on May 22.

Sport Shorts

Valley Gardens hole in one

The Mountain Gardener: Keep deer away this spring

There's something about babies. You know that feeling, when you see a new infant and can't help but gush, "How cute and tiny!" It's universal to be drawn to new life. That applies to other babies in the animal kingdom, too. Last Tuesday morning, I was delighted when I saw two tiny fawns in my driveway with their mother.

Nature Friendly: Walking where Indians walked

When I drive to the top of Bear Creek Road, looking down to Loch Lomond Reservoir and across the bay to the Ventana Wilderness, I imagine what our land would have looked like before the European invasion. What grew here? Ate here? Roamed here? What mark would American Indians have made?

New Faces

Noah Calvin Soule was born at 8:31 a.m. April 26, 2011, to Shannon Noelle Nerli and Jeffrey Calvin Soule of Ben Lomond. He was delivered at Sutter Maternity and Surgery Center in Santa Cruz, weighing 9 pounds, 11 ounces.

Datebook

Saturday, May 28

Little League Round up

Scotts Valley Little League

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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...