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June 17, 2025

Commentary: Is drinking on campus really worse than vandalism and theft?

I was recently told a story about a high school junior who was caught drinking at the school during the Scotts Valley High homecoming game and is now suspended from participating in sports, as well as other school activities, until the season is over.

The Mountain Gardener: Ecosystem reclaims fire-scorched land

Recently, I went to the moon. Or at least it seemed like it.

The Mountain Gardener: A list of winter do’s and don’ts in the garden

Here’s to a new year in the garden. I'm already starting to make journal entries for January.

Sport Shorts

Cougar softball falls to Carmel

Plain Talk About Food: Plain talk about fried chicken

Nothing pleases me more than a Sunday's drive up Alba Road in Ben Lomond on a warm sunny day.

Club Roundup

Scotts Valley Host Lions Club

Mountain Gardener: Rainy season opens door for erosion-control plants

You know fall is just around the corner when you hear thunder.

Plain talk about food: Tackling a Dungeness crab

Having spent my tender years being shuffled from one aunt’s house to another, I was often found clamming with them on the ocean shore in Westport, Wash., or shaking crab in our family’s cannery on its wharf.

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Roadwork

Paving work on Highway 9 to begin Monday between Mountain and...

Caltrans will begin a four-day paving project on Highway 9, from Mountain to Larkspur streets in Brookdale, on Monday, June 16, continuing through Thursday, June...