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December 25, 2024

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Ridin’ with the Wheeldude: Bumps in the Road

Let’s see how we’re doing on our main aim — surviving the road dangers of our twin valleys.

Cuts to treatment would be misguided

Our newspapers are filled with stories of horrific cuts impacting schools, libraries, state parks and fire and police services. But the latest reductions to alcohol and drug treatment programs are wholly misguided.

Rangers draft Erlin, who weighs whether to go pro

Scotts Valley standout pitcher Robbie Erlin will likely turn pro after his selection by the Texas Rangers with the 93rd pick in the third round of the Major League Baseball amateur draft.

Here’s to the musicians who make the bar scene happen

Any music fan will tell you the value of having a bar — or several — in the community. Besides being generally safe, vibrant places to meet and socialize, they are often the only places where one can see live popular music.

Sports Shorts

Shooting clinic in Boulder Creek set

Time to prune your way through the garden

It’s mid-June, and everything in the garden is full and lush. Your Japanese maple might be getting a little too full for your taste, outgrowing its space, crowding the neighbors, looking like a boring blob. But take the fear out of pruning with these easy steps.

‘The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers’

A popular interpretation of the Bard’s famous line is that killing the lawyers will give us a measure of satisfaction for the irritation they cause. A more noble interpretation, undoubtedly offered by a lawyer, is that the character in “Henry VI” wants to kill the lawyers so the tyrannical paymaster can plunder with impunity.

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5 injured in Scotts Valley’s first tornado on record

*Updated at 6:59pm Dec. 14, 2024 At least five people were injured in Scotts Valley's first-ever tornado on record, authorities said. Capt. Jayson Rutherford, of the...