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Flowers

The Mountain Gardener | The Cutting Garden

The assignment: create a cutting garden. For a designer this is the best kind of request. Until about 100 years ago, one of the...
Finance orchids

Finance | What Is Financial Life Planning?

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” —Socrates I am an evangelist for financial life planning! I preach it, practice it and donate it to...
TherapyWorks

TherapyWorks | Understanding and Addressing Anxiety in Kids

Children can get anxiety just like adults. Whether it’s adjusting to the changes at school or home, social anxiety, separation anxiety, or generalized anxiety...
Gardening

The Mountain Gardener | Gardening Tips for Sandy Soil

Many years ago I started writing a book about gardening in the Santa Cruz Mountains. One of many interesting subjects I researched was the...
Mayor

Mayor’s Message | Like a Good Neighbor… Not!

When Scotts Valley City Manager Mali LaGoe suggested hosting a community meeting to address the ongoing wildfire threat and the accompanying insurance crisis, there...
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Plain Talk About Memorial Day | Where Have All the Buddy’s...

It was in 1955 when the Kingston Trio first sang “Where Have All the Young Men Gone,” written by Pete Seeger about all the...
Fitness

Fitness | How Fitness Keeps You Young

Have you seen certain folks that look much older than they are? Their skin looks weathered and dry, their posture is tilted forward sitting...
Mulch

The Mountain Gardener | What’s Sheet Mulching

Boy, was I impressed. Not long ago I was at a garden to consult with a new client on some upgrades they envisioned for...
Finance

Finance | Buckets for Budgeting

1. Financial Planning is budgeting to allocate money that finances dreams. At age 20, Sam simply cooked the finest barbecue cuisine for Sequoia weddings and...
Mulch

The Mountain Gardener | Why Mulch

Mulch is not a very exciting subject, but it sure is important to the health and productivity of your garden. It’s great that everyone has...

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Authorities release the identities of two slain men discovered on Skyline...

The names of the two men whose bodies were found in a pickup truck in the Santa Cruz Mountains last month were released Tuesday...