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September 15, 2025

Let’s go fishin’: Crab, squid return off coast

Crab season opened with full traps from Bodega Bay to Monterey. The season for sport crabbers started out great, and anglers were surprised to find market squid and Humboldt squid close to shore.

Skaters bound for Scotts Valley this weekend

Professional and amateur skaters from around the country will congregate in Scotts Valley on Saturday, Sept. 26, for the 11th annual Tim Brauch Memorial skateboard contest.

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.

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Local football teams make strong showing on 2010 All SCCAL team

The Scotts Valley and San Lorenzo Valley High school football programs had an abundance of players make the 2010 All-Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League team. San Lorenzo Valley won the league title outright for the first time in six years and saw its trifecta of offensive weapons named Co-Offensive Players of the Year. Also, head coach Doug Morris was named Coach of the Year after leading the team to a 6-0 record in the SCCAL.

Talk about money: Campaign costs high for supervisors

If a politician treated you to a nice lunch, would you vote for him?

New Faces

• Laila Jane Maloney was born at 3:48 p.m. May 3, 2010, to Jennifer Nicole Grijalva and Louis Scotts Maloney of Mount Hermon. She weighed 7 pounds, 3 ounces at Sutter Maternity and Surgery Center in Santa Cruz.

Talk about money: What exactly is a school bond?

Bonds will be the subject of much discussion over the coming months as Scotts Valley Unified School District asks voters for permission to borrow $35 million to rebuild its aging middle school.

Winter’s storm and The Swing

This last winter’s great storm took its toll on my life as it once had been. My beloved Hubby Norman passed from this life during the height of this storm, leaving me bereft and full of doubts. “How could I have let this happen, how could I have let him leave me”? Those words kept repeating over and over in my mind.

Let’s Go Fishin’: Beaches provide warm weather and hot fishing

The long period between storms has brought nice weather for beachgoers and anglers in pursuit of perch. Wintertime perch fishing can be a hot pick and this year it is an exceptional choice. Barred surfperch have been plentiful this winter and now is the time.

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News Briefs

News Briefs | Published Sept. 12, 2025

Fun run, emergency preparedness fair set for Saturday On Saturday, Sept. 13, the City of Santa Cruz will be hosting Race the Wave, a 3K...