Santa Cruz Trains: Filbert and the ghost of Joseph Peery
Once long ago, just to the south of Boulder Creek, there was another small town called Lorenzo. This unimaginatively named settlement was the brainchild of local lumberman and entrepreneur, Joseph Wilburn Peery.
Datebook (Jan. 30, 2015)
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Girls’ soccer heats up for soaring Falcons, struggling Cougars
Approximately one-third of the way into the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League season, the varsity girls’ soccer teams at Scotts Valley and San Lorenzo Valley High schools appear to be headed in wildly different directions.
The Mountain Gardener: What landscape designers grow in their own gardens
It probably won’t come as a big surprise to you that I have a lot of friends that are also landscape designers.
Datebook (Jan. 23, 2015)
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New Faces (Jan. 23, 2015)
Joey Canepa Sargent, a 6-pound 15-ounce boy, was born to Marlee Elise (McGuffick) and Nathan Robert Sargent of Ben Lomond at Sutter Maternity and Surgery Center in Santa Cruz. He was born at 9:57 a.m. on Dec. 30, 2014.
Commentary: Measure N offers most stable future for Lompico’s water
I am a 24-year resident of Lompico, and would like to thank voters for electing and re-electing me as a Director of the Lompico County Water District (LCWD) in 2008 and 2012.
Incumbent Greg Wimp and Monterey County transportation agency official Michael Zeller...
With 3,524 votes counted so far in the Scotts Valley City Council contest, the incumbent, Greg Wimp—the political body's newest member, was leading the...















