Tag: columns

Scotts Valley works hard to maintain a full complement of community-oriented police officers. This article introduces recently hired Police Officers Seavana Patzke and Vitani...

It’s that time again: The days get shorter with daylight savings, and poor weather conditions start to arrive. This is where seasonal affective disorder takes...

A recent article in the New York Times caught my eye: Hot weather cherries, drought resistant melons and six other crops that are being...

Having been raised by an order of nuns from France, eating lentils was as commonplace as eating potatoes for me, both as a child...

You know it when you see it. That combination of plants that cry out “we get along.” Because it’s fall already after a way-too-short...

The Next-Door Neighborhood website, daily, has someone asking for cardboard moving boxes or having used moving boxes to give away. I smile reading those...

September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there were almost 50,000 suicide deaths in the...

The cry for help came from a new homeowner. She loves her lovely new home but feels everything in the garden is in the...

Good news! Scotts Valley is making headway on some significant road projects across the city. These are all vital improvements that will allow travelers...

“Almost Heaven, West Virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River,” … sang vocalist John Denver As a little girl from the “southside” of Aberdeen, Wash., almost...