It was quite a weekend for the Scotts Valley Falcons football team.

Bethany set to run in conference final

Cougars boys win league title

I wanted to take a friend on a special outing last month, but I struggled to come up with something that would be different, fun and memorable. Almost at the last moment, I decided we’d go to the horse races — and, man, it could not have worked out better.

At Wednesday’s City Council meeting, the city announced that Target Corp. had informed us they are no longer under contract with Title Two, the owner of the La Madrona Drive property that Target was once looking to acquire. Target told us, in their words, that while they are still very interested in this market, they are not part of the project, that they have no plans to reconsider their decision and that they are looking elsewhere in Santa Cruz County.