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September 9, 2025

New Faces

Roisin Taylor Gill was born at 1:45 p.m. Sept. 7, 2010, to Lila Kai (Mangen) and Marcus Taylor Gill of Boulder Creek. She weighed 8 pounds, 1 ounce at Sutter Maternity and Surgery Center in Santa Cruz.

Let’s go fishing: Fall fishing promises excitement for patient anglers

The days are getting shorter and shadows draw longer. The sun is lower in the sky, and there is a chill in the air. As fall conditions return, ocean fishing is the main interest, while trout and salmon are returning to their freshwater home rivers.

Club Roundup

Scotts Valley Host Lions Club

Nature Friendly: The man and the river

The San Lorenzo River originates in the seeps and streams that form in the steep canyons and redwood forests above Boulder Creek. These ephemeral water sources run like tiny capillaries until their life force creates the river, the lungs of the watershed.

Off Hours: Studio Imperfect

For most of my life, I’ve been passionate about music. Not my own — I barely qualify as a wannabe musician. But I love other people’s music, recorded tunes.

Mountain Gardener: Breathe deeper with the help of house plants

As summer comes to a close, all of us are spending more time indoors. That means it’s time to spruce up our homes with houseplants.

Nature Friendly: An ecosystem exploration

As I drove the 2,000-mile round trip to go rafting in Utah, I remembered what Tim Hyland had told me before I left.

Ins, outs of sprinkler system installation

Should you install your own sprinkler system? Well, would you install your own plumbing or fix your own car? Maybe you would and maybe you could, but sprinkler systems are often underestimated.

New Faces: Sept. 17

Lola Jean Booth was born at 7:36 p.m. Aug. 29, 2010, to Katherine RoseAnn (Eldridge) and Jordan Gregory Booth of Boulder Creek. She weighed 8 pounds, 6 ounces at Sutter Maternity and Surgery Center in Santa Cruz.

The Wine Lover: Wine moth causes trouble for Santa Cruz Wineries

The weather has been oddly cold this summer, and it has caused local grape growers to wait longer than usual to harvest their grapes. Santa Cruz County grapes will most likely be harvested about three weeks behind schedule. If the weather stays good, that won’t be a problem. But there is one guaranteed problem: the European wine moth.

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Felton Fire Protection District

Felton Fire District to review parcel tax proposal at meeting Thursday

Felton Fire Protection District (FFPD) Board of Directors has scheduled a special meeting on Thursday, Sept. 11, at 6 p.m. to discuss a proposed...