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October 22, 2025

Boy scout helps track team

Branden Caldwell is a junior distance runner on the track team at San Lorenzo Valley High School. An aspiring Eagle Scout for Boy Scout Troop 633 in Santa Cruz, Caldwell decided to find a way to help the track team while fulfilling his Eagle Scout project.

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Scotts Valley to host opening day ceremony

Talk about money: Inflation is a fact in today’s economy

The leader of the U.S. banking system, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, tells us that inflation isn’t a problem – that Americans’ cost of living is rising by less than 2 percent a year. I don’t believe it.

Editor’s Notebook: You go, groom!

My bride-to-be does not get to proofread my column before I submit it to the paper.

Scotts Valley girls take second at CCS, win first NorCal game

The Falcons were coming off a tough loss to Notre Dame of Belmonte in the Central Coast Section championship game at Santa Clara University, where they lost in the final minute 33-29 in their lowest scoring game of the season.

Let’s go fishin’: An ocean salmon season looks promising

It appears as though all parties involved in the ocean salmon fishery agree that a season for salmon fishing is a strong possibility for 2011. This comes as great news after last years’ shorted season, followed by consecutive years of a closed season for salmon. The steelhead season closed with what seemed to be a healthy return of fish in our local streams.

Lessons to be learned from living with animals

Mark Twain said, “Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.”

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