Nature Friendly: Animal rescue brings out the best
A tiny fawn lay alone in the middle of the road. For hours, drivers maneuvered around her on the driveway leading to a camp off Zayante Road, ignoring the 4-pound animal with the swollen eyes. No one stopped to help her. They were too busy going to a camp event that day.
Mountain Gardener: First of fall a perfect time to transplant
It’s late September, and you can feel autumn in the air. While our days are still beautiful and warm, the nights are getting cooler with fewer daylight hours — perfect weather for transplanting or adding new plants to your garden.
Nature Friendly: Tracking the big cats among us
The ever-intrepid watershed walkers had trekked their way down the side of a slope at Loch Lomond to the water’s edge in the middle of the hottest day of July 2010. Graduate students from Chris Wilmer’s Puma Project Lab at UCSC, who collar the cats, held up their antennae and began receiving radio signals immediately.
Recycling effort saves cash for condos
A state grant has made it possible for a large Scotts Valley housing community to recycle more and spend less on its discards in the process.
Scotts Valley resident debuts solo comedy show to support local theater
The phrase “Only the truth is funny” has been uttered in various iterations by famous authors: Sarah Frances Brown, Mark Twain and Jonathan Swift. It is, perhaps, most recently applied to the writings and adventures of one Clay Hausmann.
Hausmann, 54, lives in Scotts Valley....
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...
