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Scotts Valley
September 8, 2025

The Mountain Gardener: Salvia genus offers hundreds of options

"Gardening is a way of showing that you believe in tomorrow." — Anonymous

Football jamborees on tap

The Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League’s season-opening football jamborees will be this weekend.

Extra protection for SLV football teams

The San Lorenzo Valley Cougars are using cutting-edge helmet technology to take some of the sting out of hard-hitting football games.

Comedy Corner: Jamie Lee and clean colons

Basically, ever since I saw her in the movie “Halloween” in the 1970s, I have had a lifelong crush on Jamie Lee Curtis.

New Faces

**Dempsey Brandon Diaz Fonseca was born at 8:18 a.m. July 9, 2010, to Rebeca Fonseca Torres and Erubial Diaz Cuevas of Boulder Creek. He weighed 6 pounds, 6 ounces at Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz.

Teen Time: Is Scotts Valley really drug free?

This week is Red Ribbon Week. Red Ribbon posters are hung throughout our town saying that Scotts Valley is drug free. Is it really, though?

Monster Project brings local students together

Scotts Valley High School students surprised first and third graders at Brook Knoll Elementary with hand-made 3-D Monster art projects on Tuesday.

FAA recommendation a missed opportunity

On Thursday, November 17 the Select Committee on South Bay Arrivals, a body of elected officials convened by Congressional representatives Anna Eshoo, Sam Farr, and Jackie Speier to address jet noise, voted 8-4 to shift the SERFR arrival flight path from Happy Valley and Los Gatos to a legacy path called BSR (BIGSUR). During earlier meetings a new flight path was proposed (referred to as DAVYJ but using the BSR track) which overflies Santa Cruz, San Lorenzo Valley, Scotts Valley, and Bonny Doon in Santa Cruz County.

New faces

Remy Patrick Platero, a 7-pound, 1-ounce boy was born to Sarah Marie (Sanchez) and Richard Patrick Platero of Scotts Valley at Sutter Maternity and Surgery Center. He was born at 12:19 a.m. on July 19, 2014.

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Felton Fire Protection District

Felton Fire District to review parcel tax proposal at meeting Thursday

Felton Fire Protection District (FFPD) Board of Directors has scheduled a special meeting on Thursday, Sept. 11, at 6 p.m. to discuss a proposed...