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November 10, 2025

Trout Farm submits plans to rebuild

The company that owns the Felton site where the Trout Farm Inn burned to the ground said this week it will seek building permits to rebuild the restaurant this year.

44 questions…and no answers

It is the job of working journalists to ask questions – especially from public officials – and what we call “follow-up” questions, and more questions.

Pancakes, parades and fireworks

Thousands of residents of Santa Cruz Mountain communities, plus equally as many visitors, ate pancakes, watched parades, played in the sun, and watched fireworks on Independence Day.

Multiversity opens to locals

Scotts Valley residents don’t have to travel far to explore relationships, spirit and wellness.

Middle School gym demolished

There was no dramatic explosion, no spectacular wrecking ball. The old gym at the Scotts Valley Middle School came down in slow, scraping, gnawing chunks, grabbed and pulled apart by three different-sized excavators with steel jaws.

Ben Lomond water tanks to be replaced

The San Lorenzo Valley Water District has opened the bid process for replacing a pair of 20,000-gallon redwood tanks in Ben Lomond used for drinking water.

Students paint mural in Siltanen Park

A team of 30 students from all grade levels in Scotts Valley school are spending portions of their summer break working on a bright new mural at Siltanen Park.

French broom cutting begins

On May 8, the San Lorenzo Valley Water District, on a 3-2 vote, approved a five-part plan for the eradication of French Broom, an invasive plant species, from its sensitive Olympia Well Head, a protected watershed around an old quarry off West Zayante Road in Felton.

Roaring Camp train hits two cars

The Roaring Camp Beach Boardwalk Train collided this afternoon, July 3, with a minivan and an SUV in downtown Santa Cruz. There were no injuries.

Crime down in Scotts Valley

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.

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