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October 27, 2025

The Mountain Gardener: Warm wishes from the Mountain Gardener

Whether you celebrated Christmas, Kwanzaa or Hanukkah, this time of year is special to each of us in our own way. We really do greet friends and neighbors with a bigger smile and a warm holiday wish when we see them on the street, at a community event or even in a store.

It’s the Law: What I want for Christmas

When I was growing up in Silicon Valley, the favorite place to go was Santa Cruz. And, then as now, we teenagers preferred to travel in packs. So we’d stuff as many of us as possible into a car and head over the hill.

Let’s Go Fishin’: Steelhead, fishermen await rainy season

Freshwater fishing in our area suffers when both anglers and fish need rain.

New Faces

Gwyneth Chestnut was born at 9:26 a.m. Dec. 3, 2011, to Kimberly Ann (Barnby) and John Howard Chestnut at Sutter Maternity and Surgery Center. She weighed 5 pounds, 12 ounces.

Clear address markings may be essential in emergencies

For the most part, family, friends, neighbors and postal carriers already know where you live.

Untarnished Etiquette: Missing dignity might make a return

The international language of protocol and etiquette is multifaceted; it blends with curious distinction. It is the language of cooperation and dignity. But has dignity gone missing?

Light Up the Valley winners announced

Forty-four homes, businesses and community groups — the most to date — entered the Light Up the Valley competition hosted this month by the San Lorenzo Valley Chamber of Commerce.

Sustainable living: Routine power failure or winds of change?

Heavy winds are nothing new for Californians, although the damaging gusts usually come in the summer. The early December windstorm that rattled the state — much worse in southern California, but quite disruptive in our neck of the woods, too — was somewhat of an anomaly.

Your Health: Many upper-respiratory infections are best treated by time

There are many misperceptions about the appropriate use of antibiotics for the treatment of upper-respiratory infections.

Plain Talk about food: Cioppino

No one knows for certain just where cioppino originated.

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lifting a van from the ocean

Santa Cruz Wharf incident: 1 person dead, dog sent for emergency...

An adult victim was pulled from a van that broke through guardrails along the Santa Cruz Wharf and plunged into 30-foot-deep ocean water Sunday...