Just because the sun goes down early, don’t put your garden to sleep yet. Make sure you have flowers blooming in the fall, as well as fiery foliage to perk up the view outside your windows.
It’s the end of the league season for the Scotts Valley and San Lorenzo Valley girls volleyball teams, as they both fell Tuesday night in the first round of the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League tournament.
One week after the first tie in the nine-year history of the Scotts Valley high football program against the San Lorenzo Valley Cougars, it was déjà vu all over again as the Falcons and St. Francis Sharks ended with a 21-21 tie at Cabrillo College last Friday night, Oct. 30. Once again, Falcon players and fans greeted the final verdict in silence as the opposition cheered.
I wanted to take a friend on a special outing last month, but I struggled to come up with something that would be different, fun and memorable. Almost at the last moment, I decided we’d go to the horse races — and, man, it could not have worked out better.
At Wednesday’s City Council meeting, the city announced that Target Corp. had informed us they are no longer under contract with Title Two, the owner of the La Madrona Drive property that Target was once looking to acquire. Target told us, in their words, that while they are still very interested in this market, they are not part of the project, that they have no plans to reconsider their decision and that they are looking elsewhere in Santa Cruz County.
The first-time home buyers tax credit has helped boost prices in parts of San Lorenzo Valley, but it hasn’t lifted the gloom that hangs over Scotts Valley’s housing market.
San Lorenzo Valley Water District (SLVWD) is inviting local residents to join its standing committees, with the deadline for applications now extended to Jan....