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January 15, 2026

Your Health: Hay fever hits hard

Allergic rhinitis, commonly called hay fever, affects as much as 40 percent of children and 10 to 30 percent of adults in the United States. It is “seasonal” if symptoms occur at particular times of the year and “perennial” if they remain year round.

Let’s go fishing: Fantastic salmon opener suggests a lively season

April 7 was opening day of salmon season, and it started with a bang.

New Faces

- Joseph Carl Bollom IIIwas born to Meara Christine Toussaint and Joseph Carl Bollom of Boulder Creek at 8:48 p.m. March 15, 2012. Weighing 8 pounds, 8 ounces, he was delivered at Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz. 

The Wine Lover: Wine so sweet

There are a couple of ways to make a dessert wine. Of course, the cheap and easy way is to simply add sugar to the wine. This practice, however, is only used with cheap, poorly made, quaffing wines. The other way is to let the “residual” sugar in the wine sweeten it naturally.

Valley Neighbors: A feed store story

Animals have always had a special place in Christine Richie's heart.

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Roadwork

One week of overnight traffic control on Highway 9 in Felton...

Travelers on Highway 9 in Felton will encounter overnight traffic control beginning Monday, Jan. 12, as part of utility relocation work. Travelers on Highway 9,...