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October 8, 2025

Sports Shorts

Scotts Valley girls teams set to enter SCCAL second round

Shorts Shorts: SV girls hoops advance in playoffs

The Scotts Valley High girls basketball team finished the regular season in third place in the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League, the best finish a Scotts Valley varsity basketball team has had.

Valley wrestlers advance to CCS championships

San Lorenzo Valley High wrestler Cody Rodebaugh started his march to a second straight state title with an easy win at the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League finals Thursday, Feb. 11.

Mountain Gardener: Find color without flowers

The flowering trees and shrubs of tropical Maui are behind me, and I’m back in our temperate rain forest of redwood trees and all things green. Sure, a few early blooming shrubs are flowering this time of year and are a welcome sight, but I look for color in other places. If you’re looking around your garden now and see mostly green, here are a few suggestions to brighten things up.

Commentary: Priorities, not parcel tax

Cheers to County Supervisor Dene Bustichi in his commentary last week about school funding. But why a parcel tax? It’s time to turn off the tax spigot and force government at all levels to live within its means — that is to say, within our means. Is it really unreasonable to have to choose between attracting and keeping good teachers and funding new facilities? Families and small businesses make choices like that every day.

Datebook: What’s going on in the valleys

Friday, Feb. 19

Let’s Go Fishin’: Searching for steelhead

Steelhead are referred to as the fish of a thousand casts. That statement may be true if you’re lucky!

New Faces: Meet the newest members of our community

• Tavio Sol Valdivia was born to Erin (Timms) Valdivia and Brian Valdivia of Boulder Creek at 8:24 a.m. Feb. 10, 2010. He weighed 8 pounds at home.

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Greg Wimp

Sandwich shop owner appointed to Scotts Valley Council

As Greg Wimp, the owner of multiple area Togo’s sandwich shop locations, stepped up Oct. 1 to address Scotts Valley City Council about why...