Tag: san lorenzo river

With wind gusts having hit 40 mph at Mt. Umunhum, and the San Lorenzo River swelling to more than eight feet in height thanks...

With the donation of a conservation easement from private landowners to Sempervirens Fund, California’s first land trust, 120 acres in the Upper Zayante watershed...

At 12:48pm on Sunday, the lights flickered momentarily at The Grove Cafe and Bakery in Felton. “Uh, oh,” said a kitchen employee in a cheery...

Powers Forestry LLC has been tapped to complete tree work along a 1.3-mile section of Foreman Creek and Peavine Creek, as part of ongoing...

Jorge Ibarra was a couple days away from his 45th birthday when he left the tent where he lives above the San Lorenzo River...

With sunshine interspersed with scattered showers forecast through Monday—and another storm on its way towards the Central Coast for early Tuesday—Santa Cruz Mountains residents...

Quick response from local first responders and a knowledge of CPR may have saved the life of a kayaker on the San Lorenzo River this weekend.

The rush for seats in the grandstand facing the dammed San Lorenzo River began early in the evening. As twilight faded into utter darkness, the crowd watched the Carnival Queen’s barge float toward her throne. Then the lights — more than a thousand incandescent globes augmented by brilliant arc lamps — were turned on, transforming the aquatic amphitheater into what one dazzled reporter described as “an arena of liquid gold with a canopy of glittering light.”

 When fire season slows and the winter rains roll in, the Ben Lomond Fire (BLFD) remains the go-to department for emergencies in the community and throughout Santa Cruz County.

Rarely does a person give back so much to the neighborhood she settled in as Vicki Wees. Wees, now 64-years-old, first moved into a rented house in the Felton Grove neighborhood in 1979, when she was 25. Except for a few years here and there, Wees has lived in Felton Grove ever since. About 10 years ago, as something of a hobby, Wees began collecting historic photographs, documents and maps of the Felton Grove neighborhood.