With large returns expected to California’s rivers, some anglers are waiting for the expected fish to show up. But the Klamath River is at the top of the list for no-show salmon while the Sacramento River has had a steady return of fall Chinooks.
- Brayden Orion Baric was born to Krystal Rosa Kristich and Daneil Baric of Boulder Creek at 12:06 a.m. Sept. 5, 2013. He weighed 8 pounds, 9 ounces at Sutter Maternity and Surgery Center in Santa Cruz.
Scotts Valley High School’s varsity football team fell 49-35 in a hard-fought battle to the Spanish Springs High School Cougars on Saturday, Sept. 14 in Scotts Valley.
The excessive rate increase proposed by SLV Water District has taken on a whole new spin within the recently sent public notifications. Hiring a new and expensive PR firm will do that. The $6 million administrative campus, after 8 years in planning and $3 million already spent outside of rate-payer oversight, has suddenly become a facilities consolidation project. But they didn’t tell you the price tag has jumped to $9 million, did they?
Each year I wait for them in my garden and so do the robins, varied thrush, jays, spotted towhees, grosbeaks and band-tailed pigeons. The fruit of sambucus mexicana, a California native plant, is relished by an incredible number of songbirds. The creamy flower clusters in the spring are a favorite of bees and other beneficial insects. My Western Elderberry grows tall and gangly in the shade of a California bay tree, shorter and more compact in the sun. Their exuberance for life makes me happy just to watch them provide for so many other species.
- Alec Edward Thomsen was born to Heather Nicole and Jake Thomsen of Ben Lomond at 8:52 a.m. Aug. 22, 2013. The baby boy weighed 8 pounds, 5 ounces at Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz.
Ready or not here it comes. The first stages of implementation of the Affordable Care Act are only a few weeks away. Its goal is to provide health care coverage to some 55 million Americans who currently have no health coverage and to expand coverage to those who are underinsured. This monumental plan takes effect January 1, 2014.
U.S. Rep. Jimmy Panetta announced that he had secured $14.6 million in reimbursements for local governments in California’s 19th Congressional District from the Federal...