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October 5, 2025

Spotlight: Jackie Hale

When we think of winners in high school sports, we think of those athletes that overcome adversity and pull out a victory after falling down. On rare occasion an athlete will come along that goes undefeated.

Sport Shorts

Summer softball champs crowned

The Mountain Gardener: The garden of Robby Frank

There's a gentle guy with a beautiful garden among us in Scotts Valley — who's a serial killer. A killer of moles, that is.

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.

Your Health: Upcoming TV broadcast prompts swine flu reflections

I want to bring to your attention a TV program to be aired soon, which provides a look at California’s amazing response to the recent H1N1 swine flu epidemic. Station KRBC will be broadcasting this program Tuesday, Aug. 16, and again Aug. 25, a Thursday.

Sport Shorts

Mountain bike racing team for teens starts up

Sustainable living: Transition SLV offers hope in anxious times

While this column typically focuses on sustainability at the local level, let’s take a step back and look at the overall health of the U.S. economy and our political discourse.

Becking, Bokariza tie the knot

Chenelle Kathleen Becking and Kyle Mitchell Bokariza were married July 30, 2011, at Highlands Park in Ben Lomond. The bride was given away by her maternal grandfather, Roy Kraack.

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Greg Wimp

Sandwich shop owner appointed to Scotts Valley Council

As Greg Wimp, the owner of multiple area Togo’s sandwich shop locations, stepped up Oct. 1 to address Scotts Valley City Council about why...