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October 1, 2025

Sports Shorts

SLV alum wins top award

Bruin Roundup

With the fall sports seasons closing, basketball is the main focus since it’s the only winter sport at Bethany University. The teams are off to inauspicious starts in the preseason, but will look to turn it around when conference play starts next month.

Gardener: The gardens of southern Mexico: Part 2.

What would you plant if you lived in a flat area with very poor drainage? Where the landscape is shaped by limestone or dolomite bedrock, and the shallow soil is filled with carbonate rock? Where there is limited surface water and no above-ground rivers, and where lakes and swamps are present, but the water is marshy and not palatable for drinking? Where you have two seasons, six months of rain and six months dry, and — oh yeah — did I mention you get 100 inches of rain during the wet season?

Wheeldude: Holiday tips from behind the wheel

Realistically, shopping has mostly replaced the spiritual, religious and ideological roots of the holiday season. The U.S. and western world’s economic well-being hinges on it. Until somebody invents a functional, consumerism-less system that still guarantees prosperity, we must shop. Preferably in the San Lorenzo Valley and Scotts Valley, to avoid gargantuan traffic jams at the malls.

Wine lover: The season for bubbles

We’re in the holiday season, and what better time to talk about the drink of celebration: Champagne!

Club Roundup

SLV Rotary Club

Nature Friendly: Indian Summer turns to fall

When the first rains of the season came down, the forest turned gloomy and the trees looked like druid totems. The seeping skies crushed the optimism out of me, and I began to ramble about my house, muttering in dread, “Winter is coming. Winter is coming.”

New faces

**Lucius Lincoln Niesen was born to Bonnie Joanne (Bowman) and Travis Jeffrey Niesen of Scotts Valley at 10:25 a.m. Nov. 9, 2010. He weighed 8 pounds, 13 ounces at Sutter Maternity and Surgery Center in Santa Cruz.

Datebook

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News Briefs

News Briefs | Published Sept. 26, 2025

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