Go World Cup: Top World Cup showings a matter of debate
If you’re interested in starting a “healthy discussion” (commonly called an argument) among soccer fanatics, you can throw this question in their midst: “What’s the greatest performance in World Cup history?”
Local volunteers honor MLK Day with Quail Hollow Ranch habitat restoration
Some 20 volunteers spent their Martin Luther King Day waging war against the invasive French broom that dominates Quail Hollow Ranch.
Cougars defeat Pirates 35-14; Soquel, CCS on deck
Despite missing five key players, the San Lorenzo Valley High Cougars football team hardly missed a beat, handily securing a 35-14 victory over the visiting Harbor High Pirates on Saturday, Nov. 8.
Let’s go fishin’: The return of the Kings
Fall marks the return of the Chinook — or King — salmon to the Klamath River.
Ben Lomond Baking Company opens Saturday
A pair of Ben Lomond restaurateurs are preparing to open a new bakery in the same building that recently housed Lacey Days Antiques, and a happening music venue in the 1970s.
Sports Shorts: Bethany’s Cassaro named player of week
Bethany University junior Gabriel Cassaro was chosen as the California Pacific Conference Men’s Soccer Offensive Player of the Week for the week of Sept. 21.
Nature Friendly: Lonely roads and late-night phone calls
I was as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a roomful of rockers. I lay in bed and watched my clock tick off the early morning hours — now 1 a.m., now 2 a.m. — as I waited for the phone to ring.
SLVHS alumnus makes dazzling MLB debut
San Lorenzo Valley High School alumnus and former Cougars baseball standout Tyler Gilbert recently made his first Major League Baseball career start on the mound for the Arizona Diamondbacks.
The left-handed pitcher also etched himself into the history books after he threw a no-hitter in...
Scotts Valley City Council approves new facility rental fees
Scotts Valley City Council has taken the next step in addressing a $700,000 deficit in recreation funding by approving new facility rental and special-event...