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.
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.
Untarnished Etiquette: Recalling a date with the queen
The invitations are out. The catalogs are filled with souvenir items emblazoned “Diamond Jubilee, London 2012.” From June 2 to 5, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth officially celebrates 60 years of her reign, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.
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.
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.
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.
The Mountain Gardener: Hidden Gardens of Bonny Doon – a self guided tour.
When: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., May 19 and 20
Three candidates vie for two Scotts Valley council seats
Mike Zeller, the director of programming and project delivery for the Transportation Agency for Monterey County, is the relative newcomer on the Scotts Valley...















