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Recent rainfall might have you thinking that El Niño conditions are indeed strengthening — as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association has predicted — and that this will be a wet winter. California does not always see an increase in precipitation during El Niño years, but we can always hope and be prepared.

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There was something too good to be true about the Andersons. The young English couple burst upon the local social scene in the summer of 1897. “Nobody appeared to know who the J. Francis Andersons were,” recalled one gossip columnist, “but it was evident to Santa Cruzans that they possessed an abundance of the long green and were willing to spend it with lavish hands.”

The Scotts Valley Chamber of Commerce and the Press Banner are co-sponsoring two candidate forums, one for the City Council, on Oct. 6,  and one for the school district Board of Trustees, on Oct. 18..

Mornings are easier for hundreds of parents and their school-age children in Boulder Creek.