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Press-Banner Historical Essay Contest

May 22, 2015

Boulder Creek, Brookdale, Ben Lomond, and Felton are four beautifully unique towns. Together they make a monumental San Lorenzo Valley with a tremendous community. It’s a home to everyone who has been here for generations, and for those who have been here a short time. It has history that is both beautiful and triumphant; but also devastating and tragic.

Plain Talk about Food: Memorial Day memories and a strawberry-rhubarb slab pie

May 21, 2015

It hit me as hard as though I had been punched in the stomach. The old boarding house had burned down and the rubble had been cleared.

The Mountain Gardener: Planting and Watering for Birds and Butterflies

May 21, 2015

My garden is alive with birds. Butterflies and bees also seem to find it an interesting place to visit.

Datebook (May 22, 2015)

May 21, 2015

The Mountain Gardener: Keeping gardening facts straight

May 15, 2015

I’ve received several emails lately, requesting more information about something mentioned in a recent column. Also, I received a phone call from a reader describing a bad encounter with a certain common plant — poison oak.

Caring for Irene

May 14, 2015

Irene was a vibrant, intelligent, and much loved woman who was suddenly gone from social affairs. Her home community wondered, yet never heard plainly what precipitated her changes. This is an elder story.

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Friends of Santa Cruz Public Libraries seeks volunteers

Photo exhibit shares stories of unhoused lives across the country

SLV music, art festival returns for its 5th year in Felton

MCT stages ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ in Ben Lomond

San Lorenzo Valley Middle School students nominated for Queer Youth Leadership Awards

SOCIAL MEDIA

Johnson wins dismissal of attempted human trafficking charges, DA refiles

State Parks plans prescribed burns in Henry Cowell Redwoods sandhills

Scotts Valley Council hears from new police chief

News Briefs | Published May 8, 2026

Graham Hill Road repaving to begin Monday