Tag: Santa Cruz Mountains
Students find fossil sloth bone in Santa Cruz Mountains
Local students from Tara Redwood School playing in the Santa Cruz Mountains last spring found a strange object that they suspected was a bone...
24th Brookdale Bluegrass Festival delivers a jam-tastic weekend
The Brookdale Bluegrass and American Roots Festival held its 24th incarnation at the Brookdale Lodge over the weekend and was blessed with lovely weather—a...
News Briefs | Published March 22, 2024
SLVHS Interact Club hosts first Community Egg Hunt
San Lorenzo Valley High School’s Interact Club will be hosting their first Community Egg Hunt on Saturday,...
Finance | The ABCs of American Taxes
Some Santa Cruz Mountain residents have taxes so simple they fit on form 1040 alone—wages and pensions—and they don’t need an alphabet to complicate...
Rep. Panetta, Monterey Bay Economic Partnership host broadband expansion roundtable in...
U.S. Rep. Jimmy Panetta, in collaboration with the Monterey Bay Economic Partnership, recently convened a community roundtable on the expansion of broadband and cellular...
Sempervirens Fund permanently protects 120 acres in Santa Cruz Mountains’ Upper...
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...
Finance | Employee Stock Options Bring Wealth and Tech to the...
To design the coolest toys in the smallest boxes, local tech firms offer engineers and managers not just quarter-million-dollar salaries, insurance and 401(k)s—but discounts...
Guest Viewpoint | Strengthening Rural Resilience: The Vital Importance of Measure...
Within Santa Cruz County’s forests and mountainous neighborhoods, Measure K stands as a beacon of hope. For these residents—who have become far too familiar...
Roommates recall Boulder Creek man killed by fallen trees as quiet...
In the months Roy Windom IV spent living in the same Boulder Creek house as Robert Brainard III, the man who was killed when...
Finance | Landlord Tax
Chairman Mao once paraded landlords before crowds to their deaths and many today would confiscate landlord’s control over property without recompense. When tax clients...
News Briefs | Published Nov. 28, 2025
Choir concerts to celebrate Christmas season
The Spring Lakes Park Choir will be performing three identical concerts to celebrate the Christmas season.
They will be performing...
