Roberto Jesus Ortiz, a 7-pound 10-ounce boy, was born to Elizabeth Anne and Jesus Ortiz-Ramirez of Ben Lomond at Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz. He was born at 6:54 a.m. on Dec. 5, 2014.
Each Monday morning from my kitchen window I would watch Anna, my mother-in-law carry her tattered, oilcloth-lined laundry basket from her house through to her backyard. Setting her basket on a tree stump next to the clothesline, Anna would begin her weekly ritual.
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Mason Maynard Brackett, a 7-pound 3-ounce boy, was born to Amanda Colleen (Krebs) and Joshua John Brackett of Scotts Valley at Sutter Maternity and Surgery Center in Santa Cruz. He was born at 9:03 a.m. on December 19, 2014.
When was the last time you tried something new for the first time? Has it been a day, a week, a year or even longer? If you can’t remember, it’s likely been too long.
“Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” – Oprah Winfrey
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Between holidays and storms, I’m spending more time looking out the windows at the garden than I am actually outside in it. We have been fortunate to have received so much rain. We welcome it. We embrace it knowing that the trees are getting a deep soak and the aquifer rejoices.
A week or two ago, a Scotts Valley family received an early Christmas present — a couch, chair and love seat. It was an anonymous gift. A Good Samaritan you ask? Afraid not. The furniture was beaten up and useless, deposited on the property by someone too lazy or cheap, but likely both, to drive to the dump.
Santa Cruz County Mosquito and Vector Control has confirmed the presence of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes near downtown Boulder Creek, marking the second confirmed case...