At age 5, William Greene III was on a pair of skates, playing hockey at the Scotts Valley Roller Rink. By 10, he’d moved up the youth hockey ladder and was playing for the Junior Sharks in the National Championships.
Riesling is a misunderstood grape. It’s had its heyday and popularity in the past and is somewhat out of style today. Many restaurants do not even carry a Riesling on their wine list. Only a very small percentage of California wineries produce Riesling.
Melanie Ann Mullins was born to Corrin Ann (Smith) and Jonathan Thomas Mullins of Campbell at 7:17 p.m. June 6, 2011. She was delivered at Sutter Maternity and Surgery Center in Santa Cruz, where she weighed 8 pounds, 4 ounces.
Schoolchildren may soon have an exciting new book in their literature curriculum, if local author Christine Mason and retired Brook Knoll teacher Breta Holgers have anything to say about it.
With the citizens commission redrawing California’s districts, I had hoped that, finally, the San Lorenzo Valley would be reunited with the rest of Santa Cruz when they drew the lines for the state’s congressional districts. Sad to say, the commission has apparently not thought this a priority, since the new boundaries fracture the valley into nonsense bits and pieces.
Scotts Valley City Council’s Jan. 21 meeting made some serious progress on the Town Center development—essentially doing some of the housekeeping items needed to...