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To celebrate Loch Lomond’s 50th anniversary, I have organized another free watershed walk with the reservoir’s estimable caretakers: Chris Berry, manager of Santa Cruz Water Resources, and Chief Ranger Scot Lang.

Cats kill 1.4 billion to 3.7 billion birds and 6.9 billion to 20.7 billion small mammals in the U.S. every year. Those startling statistics were recently revealed in a paper published in Nature Communications and picked up by media outlets from Comedy Central to the New York Times and Smithsonian.

On November 19th, the County of Santa Cruz presented 69 businesses with a Green Business Certificate.  10 of those businesses are in our area, including Brunetti’s Interiors, the City of Scotts Valley, Faust Salon and Spa, San Lorenzo Water District, Santa Cruz County Bank, Scotts Valley Chamber of Commerce, Scotts Valley Water District, Suki’s Boho Boutique, Wild Roots Market, and Satellite Telework Network.  I interviewed several of these businesses to understand how and why they use green practices.

 

Scotts Valley High School’s drama club is at it again, as they prepare to present their one-act winter play, “Our Place,” at the new Scotts Valley Performing Arts and Cultural Center (SVPACC), located next door to the library, on Saturday, Feb. 25. Like all winter...