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Scotts Valley
December 12, 2025

Letter: Time for some taste

EDITOR,

The Mountain Gardener: Make your winter garden a visual feast

Outside my window, there’s a feast going on. The gingko trees are clothed in bright yellow leaves, but soon, they will drop every leaf on almost the same day and cover the ground like carpeting. It’s a feast for the eyes.

Guard-friendly Cougars look toward basket

The San Lorenzo Valley varsity boys basketball team opened practice Monday night, Dec. 7, by running more than a dozen suicides — sprints from baseline to free-throw line, half court, the opposite free-throw line and the opposite baseline. In between suicides, the varsity team shot free throws.

Sports Shorts

SV girls hoops open 3-1

New Faces

• Ellie Diane Smith was born at 4:21 a.m. Nov. 22, 2009, to Elizabeth Diane (Fox) and Jason Michael Hammond Smith of Felton. She weighed 7 pounds, 9 ounces at Sutter Maternity and Surgery Center in Santa Cruz.

PeeWees win championship

The PeeWee Falcon football team made history last weekend by winning the first Police Athletic League Championship in Scotts Valley.

Letter: Thanks for nothing

EDITOR,

Chasing a goal

Students circled the track Wednesday, Dec. 9, during a Turkey Trot fundraiser by Michele Sanguinetti’s third-grade class at Vine Hill Elementary School in Scotts Valley.

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