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On June 4 at the Henfling’s stage at the Redwood Mountain Faire, a local bluegrass group called Bean Creek got the all-ages crowd dancing to multi-part harmony set to fiddle and banjo notes. Three days later, Scotts Valley Council finally pulled the trigger on a...

The financial plan Scotts Valley City Manager Mali LaGoe introduced to City Council on June 7 wasn’t very flashy and acknowledged the precarious situation the community finds itself in post-pandemic, as American banks have failed and major changes have unfolded in the local economic...

Back in 1971, when Aretha Franklin crooned, “Rock steady, baby / That's what I feel now,” she was following in the footsteps of Alton Ellis & The Flames, who sang “Better get ready / Come do rock steady, ooh / You got to do...

According to “Our Old English Fairs” by R. W. Muncey, the internal trade of England once depended heavily on fairs that sprang up in the Anglo-Saxon period, welcoming merchants from Hamburg, Bruges, Strasbourg, Rouen and Bordeaux, among other far-flung locales. “Indeed many foreigners assembled among...

FEMA extends individual assistance deadline FEMA has granted a request to extend the deadline to apply for individual assistance due to the February/March storms for 60 days, announced Santa Cruz County Office of Response, Recovery and Resilience. The new deadline is July 20. A Disaster Recovery...

Scotts Valley Rotary Club honored 42 Scotts Valley middle and high school students with a certificate of recognition for outstanding academics, visual and performing arts and community service at an awards ceremony May 8 at Scotts Valley High School. The club also provided five college...

From their perch in their home atop the mountain in Bonny Doon, partners Tonje Wold-Switzer and Sebastian Little took in a panorama of lightning strikes that would go on to devour more than 900 homes in the region, including theirs. They were aware a storm...

One was a girl who suffered from anxiety and fell behind academically, the other was a mechanically-inclined guy who couldn’t bring himself to do homework and ended up with failing grades. Both managed to turn things around in-class through senior year, while growing leaps...

When it comes to keeping community members safe, the good people at Damsel in Defense (DiD) have your back. The company, which offers self-defense products, such as pepper spray, personal alarms, portable door locks and stun guns, was founded in 2011 in Idaho, and...

Teenagers move through the world in their own way and at their own pace. While some revel in drama or art, others find inspiration in athletics. Katie Wise is in the latter category.  Having played soccer since she was 5 and volleyball since the eighth...