Scotts Valley’s new police chief, Steve Walpole, last week released the annual “Police Department Activity Report,” also known as the annual crime report, for 2016, and it was all good news.

Letters to the editor

It began as a request from a private citizen.

Santa Cruz County Superior Judge John Gallagher last week handed Terry Vierra, a former director of the San Lorenzo Valley Water District, another courtroom defeat, this one with the  highest price tag yet.

Terry Vierra, a former director of the San Lorenzo Water District, revealed this month that the district’s general manager, Brian Lee, told him the district’s water board “had determined I acted outside the scope of my duties as a board member” in connection with a 2010 real estate purchase.

At an April 20 public meeting, Brian Lee, general manager of the San Lorenzo Valley Water District, called Bruce Holloway, successful plaintiff in the Terry Vierra conflict-of-interest lawsuit, “nothing more than a thief.”