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Uncle Sam wants you to have a comfortable retirement and gives you lots of incentives to help achieve that goal. He’ll let you stash money away without it being taxed for years and years – but not forever.

Kiwanis of the Valleys

“Whatever was learned in childhood will never be forgotten,” says first time author Mary Van Diepen. At the urging of her children, the now 90-year old Scotts Valley resident wrote about her early years growing up in Warmenhuizen, north Holland during World War II.

The wine world is split into two encompassing paradigms. These are commonly labeled the New World and the Old World.

Brianna Annette Stevison, a 7-pound 4-ounce girl, was born to Michele Renee and David Michael Stevison of Ben Lomond at Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz. She was born at 1:20 p.m. on Sept. 15, 2014.

In my most recent column, I covered some of the reasons people hate lawyers. This month, I promised to find reasons why lawyers aren’t utterly useless. If you ask a lawyer, most will say that they are vital to achieving justice and preserving freedom for the weak and oppressed.