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Scotts Valley
September 5, 2025

Town Center project still kicking

Yes, the Scotts Valley Town Center is still alive, although it is not quite as healthy as it once was.

Don’t worry about fire retardent

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Editorial: Take a cue from accident, drive more safely

Tragedy enveloped us this week when we heard that 24-year-old Jared Jenkins — a Bonny Doon native now living in Santa Cruz — was killed in a drunken-driving accident near Bakersfield.

Give kids a reason to feel gardening

With students going back to school, my thoughts turn to young people and how to pique their interest in the plant world. Many schools have life lab gardens, and families growing vegetables and fruit trees have a head start.

Columnist takes unfair shot

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New Faces

Stryker Austin Silva was born at 8 a.m. July 15, 2009, to Nancy Maureen Caputo and Gavin Daniel Silva of Scotts Valley. He weighed 4 pounds, 11 ounces, at Dominican Santa Cruz Hospital.

Is fire retardant safe?

EDITOR,

Thanks to law enforcement, too

EDITOR,

Albacore bite breaks open with warm water

It has been at least three years since the last good albacore season. We have had small teases the past few years, but the red-hot fishing we saw in the late 1990s and first years of this millennium just disappeared.

Cougars poised to score

From under his straw hat, San Lorenzo Valley head coach Doug Morris casts an intense gaze over the 51 shiny helmets glinting in the afternoon sun.

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hillside tanker truck spill

Scotts Valley firefighters praised for quick response to fuel spill

Traffic was snarled for hours on the primary route between Silicon Valley and the Monterey Bay when a truck carrying 8,600 gallons of fuel...