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Scotts Valley City Hall was temporarily transformed into a poet’s performance space on May 2 for the winners of Scotts Valley Arts Commission’s 2024 Verse of the Valley Poetry Contest.  Poets, friends, family and members of the Scotts Valley Arts Commission filled City Hall to...

We had so much fun at our Virtual Read to Achieve Assembly last Thursday, that we have decided to introduce our Virtual Math Warriors program, as well! Join us this Thursday, April 23 at 3:00PM PST on Facebook Live, as Santa Cruz Warriors In-Arena Host, Jon Root, leads us through a Virtual Math Warriors Assembly, presented by Kaiser Permanente. Jon will show his work to find the correct answers to two basketball related math problems, starting off with a question for the younger grades and working his way up to complete a question for the older grades. Math Warriors is a creative educational program that utilizes basketball to build excitement for math problems among students. Coupling hoops and numbers in the classroom provides students with a fresh and positive perspective on mathematics!

Did you know there is a Madam Ya Ya’s Red Hat Society in our community? Queen Arlene LaBorde knows and she is telling us all about it.

By Ashley LaMorte As we bring in a new year, many of us set new goals for ourselves. Such as eating cleaner, or starting a weekly fitness routine to get in better shape. In order to make your new year changes stick and become a...

When the soldiers came home from World War II, they brought back a new perspective for a new America. Rather than continuing a rural existence, most citizens were ready for a modern lifestyle supported by technology — dams, suburbs, shopping malls, interstate highways — and all the natural resources that could be gobbled up.