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October 5, 2025

The Mountain Gardener: Fruit trees deliver delicious plunder

Imagine biting into the first apricot of the season — juicy, sweet flesh the color of an orange sunset.

Datebook

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New Faces

Alexander Rhodes Porfido was born to Kristin Jean and Joseph Peter Porfido of Ben Lomond at 5:34 p.m. Jan. 9, 2013. He weighed 6 pounds, 12 ounces when he was delivered at Sutter Maternity and Surgery Center of Santa Cruz.

Let’s go fishin’: A trip down the Eel River

Weather in December and early January was wet and cold. But rains came to a halt in mid-January with warm days and cold evenings, and the San Lorenzo River flow has decreased below 100 cubic feet per second. The weather pattern is perfect for Northern California rivers that are normally too high and too brown to fish.

Talk about money: College savings picture a little clearer

The choices about how to save for college just got clearer.

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Volleyball teams take tourneys

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Greg Wimp

Sandwich shop owner appointed to Scotts Valley Council

As Greg Wimp, the owner of multiple area Togo’s sandwich shop locations, stepped up Oct. 1 to address Scotts Valley City Council about why...