Hinemoa Ruskin, a resident of Ben Lomond, is an unsung heroine who risked her life and left everything behind to serve as a U.S. Army nurse during World War II.
Warm water is making its way closer to shore, and the highly migratory albacore are soon to follow. Private boats are looking for and commercial fishermen are already landing albacore. Salmon fishing, along with rockfish and halibut, are still providing good inshore action.
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Scotts Valley grieves the closing of Bethany University after 92 years, but from a purely dollars-and-cents point of view, the loss probably won’t have a major impact on the local economy — and, in the long run, might even help the city’s finances.
n Molly Marie Horner was born at 12:25 p.m. June 17, 2011, to Shyra Marie and Andrew Thomas Horner of Scotts Valley. She weighed 8 pounds, 9 ounces when she arrived at Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz.
With the arrival of summer, many of us will be traveling by airplane. Those of us who are older than 50 can remember going in and out of airports free of any type of security measures. Now, to board a plane, we have to nearly disrobe, get patted down and, most recently, pass through full-body scanners that take an image of our body.
A project to construct sidewalks, curb ramps, driveways and retaining walls on Highway 9 between Graham Hill Road and the San Lorenzo Valley schools...