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November 3, 2025

It’s the Law: The Problem with Witnesses

One of the more memorable experiences of my law school days occurred on the first day of Criminal Law. We students sat, thoroughly intimidated, in the huge lecture hall as our nationally renowned professor introduced himself. In the middle of that introduction, however, a woman ran onto the stage crying melodramatically for help. A few seconds later, another woman appeared chasing the first woman around and around the stage. Finally, the pursuer yelled, “Eat lead you dirty dog,” pulled out a cap pistol and fired about 20 shots at the first woman. After firing all of her caps, she ran off stage, all the while laughing maniacally. Meanwhile the first woman stumbled around for a few minutes pretending to die with 20 slugs in her. When she finally expired, a couple of students dragged her off by the feet and our professor resumed his lecture.

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SVMS volleyball wins league tournament

Young motorcyclist in hunt for national title

This spring, a dream will come true for local third-grader Hunter Reynolds

Swimmers take to the water

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Wine Lover: Skov to take over at Roudon-Smith

Roudon-Smith, a local Scotts Valley winery on Bean Creek Road, has recently changed hands. Annette Hunt sold her half of the Roudon-Smith label to her partner, Al Drewke, and has started anew with the winery under a fresh label, “Skov.”

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.

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