Featuring a mixed roster of upperclassman veterans and underclassman rookies, the Scotts Valley High softball team has its collective eyes set on the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League championship.

It all started several years ago at the annual bonsai show presented by the Santa Cruz Bonsai Kai club.

Having grown up in a Catholic convent and boarding school with 30 girls, my early days were spent much like any girls who were living at home with their parents, with one exception — our free time.

Citing declining enrollment, Cabrillo College announced Wednesday that, following the end of the current semester, it will not renew the lease on the Scotts Valley extension campus.

Mountain Community Resources’ new afterschool program began this week, giving teens a safe place to hang out after a long school day.

A few of the uniquely bent and shaped trees that were once part of Scotts Valley’s Tree Circus and Lost World can still be seen at the Tree Circus Center at 4652 Scotts Valley Drive today — one of the few remaining traces of the days when north Scotts Valley was a destination for roadside tourism.