• Joseph Luke Kerns was born to Alexandra Jude and Abraham Kenneth Job Kerns of Felton at 8:38 p.m. Dec. 2, 2009. He weighed 7 pounds, 8 ounces at Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz.

Except for a hot shower two or three times a month, I think water is probably at its best when frozen into small cubes and dropped into a glass or blender when making one’s adult beverage of choice.

A reporter once asked Warren Buffett, the world’s greatest investor, this question: “Mr. Buffett, you are the richest man in the world, worth billions. Why do you wear cheap suits?” Buffett replied: “I don’t wear cheap suits. I wear expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.”

After recently stepping down from two years as the city’s mayor and passing the gavel to Mayor Jim Reed, I think this is a good time to reflect on where the city has been recently and where we’re going.

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It’s difficult to grasp how difficult wine tasting can be until you begin to practice it.

Like a horror show picture, giant squid seem to be invading the coast. From Fort Bragg to Monterey, giant Humboldt squid have shown up in massive numbers.

“May you live in interesting times” — a Chinese curse or a Western invention? While its origin is disputed, its meaning is quite applicable to our current state of affairs. Nowhere is this truer than for the Santa Cruz Public Libraries.