Datebook (Jan. 2, 2015)
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The Mountain Gardener: Outdoor flowering plants that hold up in winter weather
Between holidays and storms, I’m spending more time looking out the windows at the garden than I am actually outside in it. We have been fortunate to have received so much rain. We welcome it. We embrace it knowing that the trees are getting a deep soak and the aquifer rejoices.
It’s the Law: An unwelcome Christmas present
A week or two ago, a Scotts Valley family received an early Christmas present — a couch, chair and love seat. It was an anonymous gift. A Good Samaritan you ask? Afraid not. The furniture was beaten up and useless, deposited on the property by someone too lazy or cheap, but likely both, to drive to the dump.
Let’s Go Fishin’: Lighted whistle buoy set to hold anchor
After early season proposals to remove the iconic “Mile Buoy” from Santa Cruz, it appears it has been replaced with a new model and is here to stay.
Datebook (Dec. 26, 2014)
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Kain, Anderson excel at national cross country tournament
Two local cross country runners found themselves in Myrtle Beach, S.C. on Saturday, Dec. 13 to compete against some of the best middle-school-age runners that the United States has to offer.
Felton’s Cremer House brewpub off to a strong beginning
Anyone driving through downtown Felton after 5 p.m. would be hard-pressed to miss the bustle of activity in the newly opened Cremer House, as the long-awaited restaurant and brewpub opened to the public on Wednesday, Dec. 3.
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...
















