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September 30, 2025

Sustainable Living: Time banking: Toward a cash-free economy

Could you use a little help in your life — maybe an afternoon of yard work or math tutoring for your child — but can’t really afford to pay someone for it? Do you also have something to offer, perhaps gardening know-how or plumbing expertise?

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.

Letter: Thanks to the valley

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SV youngster skates in hockey nationals

Logan Brownlee, a seventh-grader at Scotts Valley Middle School, competed this week in the national playoffs for the nation’s best PeeWee AA hockey teams.

New Faces

Annabel Alice Rice was born to Katherine Alice (Palmer) and James Robert Rice of Scotts Valley at 8:30 p.m. March 1, 2011, at Sutter Maternity and Surgery Center in Santa Cruz. She weighed 8 pounds, 1 ounce.

Little League Roundup

Scotts Valley Little League

Talk about money: Cashing in: An uncommon Social Security strategy for married couples

The retirement landscape has dramatically changed over the past several years, with declining retirement accounts, savings accounts and home prices. At the same time, medical costs are rapidly rising, life expectancies are increasing and Social Security benefits are not growing at nearly the same pace as inflation. For many — dare I say most? — tough decisions are at hand about postponing or reformulating a retirement that’s no longer affordable.

Sports shorts

Locals shine at Stanford Invitational

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News Briefs

News Briefs | Published Sept. 26, 2025

Music at Skypark wraps up 16th season this Sunday The free outdoor Music at Skypark concert series concludes its 16th season this Sunday, Sept. 28,...