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October 22, 2025

Let’s go fishing: Commercial crab season starts strong

The commercial Dungeness crab season in Central California opened Nov. 14 and started off great, until the weather took a turn and kept boats in port. The market is hungry for crabs, and consumers are paying top dollar to start the season.

New faces

Joseph Byron Burns was born at 2:43 a.m. Nov. 7, 2012, to Christine Michele Dahl and David Michael Burns, PhD, of Boulder Creek. Joseph weighed 7 pounds, 9 ounces when he arrived at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View.

The Mountain Gardener: Christmas plants for the aunts

I've barely finished eating leftover turkey a dozen different ways, and already I find myself thinking of all things Christmas.

Your Health: When to call in sick

It’s getting to be the time of year when respiratory illnesses, such as colds, coughs and the flu, begin to make more of us ill.

Talk about money: With election finished, taxes uncertain

The long political campaign is over. Endless hours of debates and political ads ended with not much change in Washington, D.C. Barack Obama is still president, Democrats still control the Senate and Republicans still control the House.

The Mountain Gardener: Eat your heart out with food-named plants

Have you noticed how many plant varieties are named after food?

New Faces

Holden Turner Spielvogel, son of Andrea Marley and Jonathan Robert Spielvogel of Scotts Valley, was born at 7 a.m. Nov. 11, 2012. He weighed 6 pounds, 2 ounces when he arrived at Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz.

Plain talk about food: Too chicken for fresh turkey

It began on one of those sunny but cold, wintry mornings during the week of Christmas in Watsonville many years ago.

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Youth basketball registration continues

Scotts Valley High School doubles team wins playoff match

The Scotts Valley High School tennis doubles duo of freshman Desi Rakela and senior Serena Strehlke won their first-round match in the Central Coast Section tournament before falling in the quarterfinals this week.

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Santa Cruz County’s 2024 Crop Report shows jump in local crop...

Santa Cruz County Agricultural Commissioner’s Office has released the 2024 Crop Report, announcing that the estimated gross production value of local agricultural commodities reached...