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September 16, 2025

Your Health: Asthma action plan necessary

May is National Asthma Awareness Month. It is estimated that more than 8 percent of the U.S. population suffers from asthma, and the numbers are rising yearly.

The Mountain Gardener: Ask the expert

With each new season, we start fresh with high expectations for a bountiful harvest of vegetables and mouth-watering fruit, fragrant flowers to pick for bouquets and healthy plants to attract beneficial insects to the garden. As the months pass, it seems one problem after another crops up.

Plain Talk About Food: Plain talk about fried chicken

Nothing pleases me more than a Sunday's drive up Alba Road in Ben Lomond on a warm sunny day.

New Faces

Devin Michael Cuartilon was born to Lindsey Patterson and Ben Cuartilon of Scotts Valley at 8:11 p.m. April 21, 2012, at Sutter Maternity and Surgery Center in Santa Cruz. He weighed 7 pounds, 8 ounces.

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.

Valley Neighbors: Frank Lodato

Lodato Park is probably one of the best-kept secrets in the area. This hiking-only park has a 1.2-mile handmade trail that wanders through the redwoods and is carved out of the hillside in some places.

Let’s go fishin’: Hot salmon bite

Rock cod season is under way, halibut are biting — but most anglers couldn’t care less, as salmon fishing sizzles.

New Faces

- Naomi Corinne Adams was born at 12:27 p.m. April 25, 2012, to Ingrid Corinne and Zachary Michael Adams of Scotts Valley. She weighed 8 pounds, 2 ounces at Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz.

Talk about money: Escrow explained

“Escrow” is one of those words you hear tossed around. People “open escrow” and “close escrow,” and — as was the case recently with Bethany University — some deals “fall out of escrow.”

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News Briefs

News Briefs | Published Sept. 12, 2025

Fun run, emergency preparedness fair set for Saturday On Saturday, Sept. 13, the City of Santa Cruz will be hosting Race the Wave, a 3K...