Editor’s notebook: My grandma the food fighter
It’s not often I write about someone in my own family. As the editor of a newspaper, I have to be judicious about how I use space in the paper — and about 98 percent of the time, I leave my family out of it.
Falcon Club trucks along for school athletics
The March 16 Poker Night hosted by the Falcon Club raised $8,000 toward the $125,000 required to fund athletics at Scotts Valley High School each year.
The Mountain Gardener: Garden show fosters new, bright ideas
Every year, I look forward to the San Francisco Flower & Garden Show, held each March, for inspiration and landscape design ideas.
The Mountain Gardener: Bulbs add color to summer garden
A couple of warm days and I'm ready for spring.
Commentary: Better ways to manage feral cats
Everyone appreciated the rescue tips about baby birds from Carol Carson's column, “Domestic cats pose serious threat to native wildlife,” (March 15, Page 9) published last week. However, she had one alarming suggestion to “rent cages from the County Animal Shelter for capturing cats and transferring them to the shelter.” But once there, a friendly cat is capable of adoption and an “unfriendly” feral cat meets a deadly double standard: By contrast, it is deemed unadoptable and will be killed.
Scotts Valley police urge parents to discuss teen driver safety
As National Teen Driver Safety Week runs Oct. 18-24, the Scotts Valley Police Department is urging parents and guardians to talk with teens about...













