Editor’s notebook: My grandma the food fighter
It’s not often I write about someone in my own family. As the editor of a newspaper, I have to be judicious about how I use space in the paper — and about 98 percent of the time, I leave my family out of it.
Cougars and Falcons wrap up golfing season
Scotts Valley High freshman Colton Marshall led the valley golfers at the Santa Cruz County Athletic League finals at Pasatiempo Golf Course on Tuesday, May 3. Marshall shot a 97 on the 18 hole course and finished No. 6 overall behind Harbor Highs Matt Imel, who shot a 7-over-par 77 on the day to win the SCCAL title.
Track runners prep for section meet
San Lorenzo Valley High and Scotts Valley High will send a host of athletes to the Central Coast Section track and field semifinal meet this weekend.
Nature Friendly: Tracking the big cats among us
The ever-intrepid watershed walkers had trekked their way down the side of a slope at Loch Lomond to the water’s edge in the middle of the hottest day of July 2010. Graduate students from Chris Wilmer’s Puma Project Lab at UCSC, who collar the cats, held up their antennae and began receiving radio signals immediately.
Central Coast Good Fire Fair returns Saturday to Henry Cowell Redwoods...
California State Parks will host the third Central Coast Good Fire Fair and demonstration burn Saturday, Oct. 10, at Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park.
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