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October 5, 2025

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Cougars take Pirates for league victory

Datebook

- Submit Datebook items to [email protected] or drop off press releases or photos at 5215 Scotts Valley Drive, Ste. F, Scotts Valley 95066. Deadline is 5 p.m. Tuesday. Entries are subject to editing, and publication is not guaranteed.

It’s the law: Criminal and civil trespass

In my most recent column, I wrote about wandering through an unfinished shopping center with my friends when a security guard started roaring epithets at us and gave chase (Page 12, Nov. 30). Under great fear, we kids narrowly escaped. The question is whether we were trespassing. 

Let’s Go Fishin’: New year brings fine steelhead fishing

The San Lorenzo River crested at 24 feet just before Christmas and now flows with ease through the valley. The river flows have been high, but the water color is clear and the flow is healthy. And the big rains of December brought large steelhead from Central to Northern California.

The Mountain Gardener: Winter natives keep birds in the garden

There's no way around it. January may signal the start of the new year, but most of our plants still have the day off. I need inspiration on these cold mornings when most of my plants are asleep.

New Faces

- Nick Jensen Wilson was born at 3:23 p.m. Dec. 19, 2012, to Stacy Lynn and Devon Howard Wilson of Scotts Valley. He weighed 8 pounds, 4 ounces when he was born at Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz.

Commentary: Be kind all the time

Sadly, the ending of the year 2012 will mostly be remembered for man’s inhumanity to man as witnessed in the town of Newtown, Conn.

Your Health: Health highlights from 2012

As we begin a new year, I’d like to share with you a selection of highlights from some of my columns this past year:

Datebook

- Submit Datebook items to [email protected] or drop off press releases or photos at 5215 Scotts Valley Drive, Ste. F, Scotts Valley 95066. Deadline is 5 p.m. Tuesday. Entries are subject to editing, and publication is not guaranteed.

The Mountain Gardener: Glass garden a spectacular site

Recently I visited a garden of glass, and it was spectacular.

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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...