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Spotlight/Datebook

Boulder Creek book signing to benefit animal rescue

Datebook (April 17, 2015)

- Submit Datebook items to [email protected] or drop off press releases or photos at 5215 Scotts Valley Drive, Ste. F, Scotts Valley 95066. Deadline is 5 p.m. Tuesday. Entries are subject to editing, and publication is not guaranteed.

Your Health: Start new year with healthy resolutions

As we prepare to leave the old year behind and greet the New Year, I would like to propose the following health-related resolutions:

Nature Friendly: Quail Hollow Ranch — A Walk through a herp haven

At Quail Hollow Ranch in Ben Lomond, I’ve seen the gopher-eating great blue heron and the mountain lion that hides in a small grove of trees across from the pond and takes his deer kill from the nearby fields. But what about the animals who live a life unseen — those who live in the realm of the creepy crawlers, under a rotting branch or in the water?

Datebook (April 10, 2015)

- Submit Datebook items to [email protected] or drop off press releases or photos at 5215 Scotts Valley Drive, Ste. F, Scotts Valley 95066. Deadline is 5 p.m. Tuesday. Entries are subject to editing, and publication is not guaranteed.

Hitchcock Festival delivers an unforgettable experience for second year

Hitchcock Festival
One day, during journalism school up in Canada, I headed down from my dorm to catch a glimpse of rising star Orlando Bloom on his way into a premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. I encountered a gruff tabloid photographer with a mustache...

Nature Friendly: Trekking through mountains to save big cats

California is the only western state where killing mountain lions is illegal. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen.

Plain Talk About Food: The preciousness of friendship and a summer peach cake

Do you remember the movie by Thornton Wilder “Our Town” and narrated by Hal Holbrook in the 1950s?

Mountain Gardener: A peek into local gardening’s past

Editor’s note: This is Part 1 of a two-part series on historical gardening.

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Scotts Valley Council eases ADU rules, expands junior unit options

They didn’t exactly have a choice in the matter, but when it came down to updating their secondary residence policy, Scotts Valley City Council...