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September 13, 2025

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Locals shine at Stanford Invitational

The Mountain Gardener: Good times with vines

If you enjoy fragrance in your garden and beautiful blooms, you can have them both when you plant vines.

New Faces

Annabel Alice Rice was born to Katherine Alice (Palmer) and James Robert Rice of Scotts Valley at 8:30 p.m. March 1, 2011, at Sutter Maternity and Surgery Center in Santa Cruz. She weighed 8 pounds, 1 ounce.

SV youngster skates in hockey nationals

Logan Brownlee, a seventh-grader at Scotts Valley Middle School, competed this week in the national playoffs for the nation’s best PeeWee AA hockey teams.

Datebook

Submit Datebook items to [email protected], 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.

Letter: Thanks to the valley

EDITOR,

Talk about money: Cashing in: An uncommon Social Security strategy for married couples

The retirement landscape has dramatically changed over the past several years, with declining retirement accounts, savings accounts and home prices. At the same time, medical costs are rapidly rising, life expectancies are increasing and Social Security benefits are not growing at nearly the same pace as inflation. For many — dare I say most? — tough decisions are at hand about postponing or reformulating a retirement that’s no longer affordable.

So many spring sports, so few students

Spring time is here, and baseballs are zipping around the San Lorenzo Valley High baseball field — barely.

Scotts Valley falls to Aptos in league play

Scotts Valley High’s baseball team could not withstand Aptos High’s first home run of the season — a grand slam — and fell to the Mariners, 16-6, on Tuesday, March 29.

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News Briefs

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...