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August 8, 2026

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The Mountain Gardener: Planted tomatoes ripen for summer

The spring sun has started to warm the soil. I'm already having visions of eating ripe, luscious tomatoes later in the season.

Datebook

- Submit Datebook items to pbeditor@pressbanner.com, 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.

Your Health: Hay fever hits hard

Allergic rhinitis, commonly called hay fever, affects as much as 40 percent of children and 10 to 30 percent of adults in the United States. It is “seasonal” if symptoms occur at particular times of the year and “perennial” if they remain year round.

Let’s go fishing: Fantastic salmon opener suggests a lively season

April 7 was opening day of salmon season, and it started with a bang.

New Faces

- Joseph Carl Bollom IIIwas born to Meara Christine Toussaint and Joseph Carl Bollom of Boulder Creek at 8:48 p.m. March 15, 2012. Weighing 8 pounds, 8 ounces, he was delivered at Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz. 

The Wine Lover: Wine so sweet

There are a couple of ways to make a dessert wine. Of course, the cheap and easy way is to simply add sugar to the wine. This practice, however, is only used with cheap, poorly made, quaffing wines. The other way is to let the “residual” sugar in the wine sweeten it naturally.

Valley Neighbors: A feed store story

Animals have always had a special place in Christine Richie's heart.

Untarnished etiquette: On being a good neighbor

To own a home is the American dream. I think it still is, even under the current economic conditions. Whether you own, rent or lease, your home is still your castle.

The Mountain Gardener: Native plants blooming in the parks

Taking a walk is always a breathtaking experience at this time of year. Witness the cobalt blue flowers nearly covering a ceanothus, or a stand of Dicentra formosa, with pink, bell-shaped flowers backlit in the spring sunlight. These are just two of our local native plants. Everywhere you look, nature is beginning the season fresh with anticipation and promise.

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City Manager Mali LaGoe

Scotts Valley City Manager Mali LaGoe announces resignation

The City of Scotts Valley announced today that City Manager Mali LaGoe has submitted her resignation after more than four and a half years leading...