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October 10, 2026

The importance of blind wine tasting

It’s difficult to grasp how difficult wine tasting can be until you begin to practice it.

Fall All-SCCAL teams headlined by local athletes

The 2013 all-Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League teams were announced this month headlined by a strong group of Scotts Valley and San Lorenzo Valley High School athletes. The following is broken down by sport.

Let’s go fishin’: It’s a steelhead time of year

The days are short and cold and steelhead season is starting! I love fishing and one of my favorite types of fishing is for steelhead. There are many varieties of fishing and steelhead fishing is one that you either love or dislike, because it is during the cold wet winter months where we live.

Visiting wineries on the east side of the mountains

This past weekend was the Vintner’s Festival on the west side of the Santa Cruz Mountains, and many local private wineries opened their doors to the public for barrel samples and exclusive tastings.

The Wine Lover: Economics of tasting fees

There was a time when tasting fees were rare in the Santa Cruz wine region. Most wineries were happy to pour a few tastes for guests, with the expectation that they would at the very least buy a bottle to take home for later. This unspoken method worked well for quite some time.

City paid too much

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New Faces

Holden Turner Spielvogel, son of Andrea Marley and Jonathan Robert Spielvogel of Scotts Valley, was born at 7 a.m. Nov. 11, 2012. He weighed 6 pounds, 2 ounces when he arrived at Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz.

Running back keeps Cougars in playoff hunt

A second consecutive tight game ended in a tie for the San Lorenzo Valley High football team last weekend.

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