As the Great Depression waned and the first touring Chevvies and Deusies roared across Santa Cruz Mountains to the Pacific, Scotts Valley was right where it needed to be: perfectly placed to greet those pioneer motor-venturers with a hot drink at Camp Evers, a restock of provisions and, by all accounts, a roaring foxtrot. In short, our little rest stop on the California Trail began its own adventurous economic journey out of the Great Depression into the brave new mobile world.

Saturday, Jan. 22

“Sleep tight and don’t let the bedbugs bite” was something my parents would say to me every night as they tucked me into my bed when I was a child.

Work on planned improvements on Graham Hill Road near Roaring Camp is officially scheduled to begin in March after Monterey Peninsula Engineering Inc. was awarded the contract for the project, valued at not quite $2.4 million, by the Board of Supervisors at its Dec. 14 meeting.

The only thing growing on my tomato plant is the big, huge, hairy, multi-spotted spider that has set up a household in it.

The founder and executive director of Save the Frogs, America’s only public charity dedicated to amphibian conservation, is on his way to the San Lorenzo Valley on Feb. 5.

Spring soccer sign-ups ongoing