For many of us, the advent of a new year is accompanied by a list of resolutions. The end of the calendar year has always been a time for review, and the beginning of a new one gets us thinking about goals for the future. It’s the time when we are most likely to contemplate specific changes we want, or need, and most likely to make and resolve to follow through on those changes.

Recent winter storms brought rain, high winds and heavy surf to the coastal waters. The large winter swells have churned the local beaches and formed new sandbars.

Two years ago, a fashion club was started at Scotts Valley High School. On Feb. 6, the club will host its student-run fashion show.

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A San Lorenzo Valley resident is the third man to be charged in the death of a 29-year-old Los Angeles businessman in Santa Cruz after an apparent drug deal gone bad.

Jacob Dale Donovan was born to Talli Rae (Parsons) and Joseph Dale Donovan of Felton at 12:56 p.m. Jan. 6, 2010. He weighed 9 pounds, 7 ounces, at Sutter Maternity and Surgery Center in Santa Cruz.