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October 9, 2025

New Faces (Jan. 16, 2015)

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.

Plain Talk about Food: Chicken tortilla soup under the clothesline

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.

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.

New Faces

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.

Health and Fitness: Guest Column: Yoga toolkit for beginners

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.

Your Health: Looking back on 2014

Wow, what a year.

Guest Column: A look back on 2014 in the Fifth District

“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

Datebook (Jan. 2, 2015)

- 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.

The Mountain Gardener: Outdoor flowering plants that hold up in winter weather

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.

It’s the Law: An unwelcome Christmas present

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.

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