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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Scott Weese, a division chief with Cal Fire CZU, spends plenty of time pouring over forest-fuel-environment maps and briefing safety crews on weather conditions.
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