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My resident squirrels are busy burying acorns for the winter. On the go from first light in the morning until dusk, they scurry up the oak trees to collect this prized food source and then deposit the acorns in the ground and in the pots on my deck, where they will surely forget where most of them are.

Kiley Rose Garcia, a 6-pound, 13-ounce girl, was born to Trinity Lynn (Kay) and Freddy Omar Garcia of Felton at Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz. She was born at 2:40 a.m. on July 20, 2014.

Home-building has not kept up with job growth, causing a shortage of affordable housing. Possible solutions being pushed in the California state senate could pack cities like Scotts Valley with dense housing.

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Those lazy, crazy, foggy days of summer are behind us now. What a strange summer it was.

The other day, I went to Kmart to pick up a few things. That was where the day became a character challenge for me. Has this ever happened to you?