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.
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.
Nike builds ties to San Lorenzo Valley track team
San Lorenzo Valley’s track team is building a reputation, and shoe maker Nike wants to be a part of it.
Letter: Winery still making wine
Austin Twohig’s wine column, headlined on the Press-Banner’s March 18 front page as “A local winery ditches its Roudon-Smith label...,” led readers astray with the inaccurate intimation that Roudon-Smith wines had vanished. That’s simply not the case.
So many spring sports, so few students
Spring time is here, and baseballs are zipping around the San Lorenzo Valley High baseball field — barely.
Let’s go fishin’: Fishing continues despite tsunami devastation
On March 11, at about 8 a.m., the first tsunami surges from the 9.0-magnitude Japanese earthquake hit the West Coast. The tidal surges pounded the coast and hit the Santa Cruz Harbor and Port of Crescent City without restraint. The damage at the Santa Cruz small-craft harbor is estimated at more than $22 million.
Scotts Valley police receive $25K traffic safety grant
Scotts Valley Police Department has received a $25,000 grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety to support programs promoting bicycle and pedestrian safety.
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