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September 7, 2024

The Mountain Gardener: Game adds feature to well-balanced garden

When do art and science come together to make your life more beautiful? If you thought of garden design, you'd be right.

County digs deeper into medical marijuana cultivation rules

Santa Cruz County leads the medical marijuana industry to ensure the best results for everyone.

Datebook: Ongoing events in the valley

Together in the Park

New rules will simplify tax returns for many

Out with the old, in with the new.

Club Roundup

Scotts Valley Host Lions

Mountain Gardener saves plants, one garden at a time

Time flies when you’re having a good time, and that’s exactly how I feel writing my 200th column for the Press-Banner.

Nature Friendly: Walk among redwoods

My home is encircled by fairy rings. But before you envision my dog, Bucky, and me hiding out at night to see if the wee little ones will appear, let me explain that these are rings of redwoods.

New Faces

**Corin Avery Triona was born at 5:41 p.m. Nov. 25, 2010, to Lara Michelle (Meyer) and Eli Emmett Stevens of Felton. She weighed 6 pounds, 8 ounces at Sutter Maternity and Surgery Center in Santa Cruz.

Your Health: Cancer in remission, time to look ahead

I am in remission of my multiple myeloma cancer. The three months of chemotherapy last fall and winter did a great job in knocking out most of those cancerous plasma cells which were taking over my body. The stem-cell transplant I was originally to have following chemotherapy has been canceled. I will have my blood tested regularly to monitor my remission. My thanks to Dr. Michael Wu and his wonderful caring staff at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation oncology department who did a superb job treating my disease.

Nature Friendly: Walking where Indians walked

When I drive to the top of Bear Creek Road, looking down to Loch Lomond Reservoir and across the bay to the Ventana Wilderness, I imagine what our land would have looked like before the European invasion. What grew here? Ate here? Roamed here? What mark would American Indians have made?

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