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Alexander Rhodes Porfido was born to Kristin Jean and Joseph Peter Porfido of Ben Lomond at 5:34 p.m. Jan. 9, 2013. He weighed 6 pounds, 12 ounces when he was delivered at Sutter Maternity and Surgery Center of Santa Cruz.

The Scotts Valley High School girls varsity soccer team easily handled San Lorenzo Valley High with a 5-0 win in Felton on Thursday, Jan. 30.

- Bridger Albert Marshall Mitchell, son of Page Williams and Mason Mitchell of Boulder Creek, was born at 3:47 p.m. Aug. 3, 2012, at Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center. He weighed 7 pounds, 4 ounces.

There’s a joke about the milk bottle game at Coney Island: A terrible storm swept through and flattened the entire amusement park; nothing was left standing — except those milk bottles.

Those lazy, crazy, foggy days of summer are behind us now. What a strange summer it was.

I had a plain vanilla childhood. Thank goodness. Ours was a middle-class neighborhood with little crime or drama. Even though many families, including my own, went through the anguish of divorce, all the kids I knew had a family to fall back on. That idyll colored my vision of the world.