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September 14, 2025

Tennis players bow out of tournament

Despite bowing out early from the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League finals, there is optimism brewing in the Scotts Valley High School boys tennis program.

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Girls soccer teams ready to strike

The defending Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League Champion girls soccer team is on a roll.

Ridin’ with the wheeldude: A look at the auto industry

As an invited media representative, I went, for the first time, to last month’s Silicon Valley International Auto Show at the San Jose Convention Center. My conclusion: This typically regional show’s main aim is to help those in a market for a new car by comparing multiple cars’ fit and feel without the dealership salesmen’s pressure.

Datebook

- Submit Datebook items to [email protected] or drop off press releases or photos at 5215 Scotts Valley Drive, Ste. F, Scotts Valley 95066. Deadline is 5 p.m. Tuesday. Entries are subject to editing, and publication is not guaranteed.

Changes in grapes means good wines ahead

Every year, something amazing happens in the vineyard around the end of July and the beginning of August. The grapes start to change from adolescent green to their more mature red.

Let’s go fishin’: Thousands of Chinook salmon injected into Monterey Bay

Most people are excited when they hear that there are 180,000 salmon in Monterey Bay. I am excited, too, as these fish are being pen-raised for a short period of time by Monterey Bay Salmon and Trout Project.

The Mountain Gardener: Magnolia are an early sign of spring

I went to see a million daffodils, but I was too early.

A year that just might

Two years ago, I wrote a column about the “The year that wasn’t.” It was 2007, the year when Barry Bonds, Lance Armstrong and others were hit with steroid allegations, and nothing, except the “I believe” Golden State Warriors, seemed to go right for Bay Area sports teams.

New Faces: Oct. 8

Parker Saige Clifton was born to Faith Estell Clifton of Boulder Creek at 9:01 a.m. Sept. 1, 2010, at Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz. She weighed 6 pounds, 3 ounces.

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News Briefs

News Briefs | Published Sept. 12, 2025

Fun run, emergency preparedness fair set for Saturday On Saturday, Sept. 13, the City of Santa Cruz will be hosting Race the Wave, a 3K...