Ben Lomond News

Visiting gardens is one of my passions. Wherever I travel I take time to enjoy an arboretum or a historical garden when I find them.

In an ongoing effort to get community feedback on potential improvements within San Lorenzo Valley, 5th District Supervisor Bruce McPherson is looking to form three advocacy groups for Felton, Ben Lomond and Boulder Creek, as well as two groups focusing on Highway 9 and tourism.

When Patrice Baze returned home to the Bay Avenue Senior Apartments after back surgery, she felt the urge to smoke a cigarette.

At Quail Hollow Ranch in Ben Lomond, I've seen the gopher-eating great blue heron and the mountain lion that hides in a small grove of trees across from the pond and takes his deer kill from the nearby fields.

Golden Love of Love Gardens will lead a laundry-to-landscape workshop at Allterra Solar on Santa Cruz's Westside on Saturday, May 18.

Glen Arbor School's teacher Kate Pratt works with the kids of the now closed day care.

A spokesperson with the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office said Oakland police have arrested Dimitri Storm .

A staffer at the Highway 9 eatery said Monday that the owner had shuttered his business temporarily while he "decided what he was going to do." Apparently, he decided he wanted to remain in the burger business.

According to CHP and sheriff's investigators, Storm is on an auto theft rampage that started in the Soquel Hills on April 2. Storm then struck Sonoma County, Ben Lomond, Boulder Creek, Santa Cruz, Carmel, Big Sur, Carmel Highlands, Palo Alto.

Measure T, the proposal to amend Watsonville's Urban Limit Line to allow for the possible annexation by the City of approximately 95 acres of agricultural land for future commercial development, will be the focus of a special meeting of the Santa Cruz County Business Council Board of Directors Thursday.

At least three thefts from unlocked vehicles in Felton and Boulder Creek on Thursday and early Friday could be the work of fugitive assault suspect Dimitri Storm, deputies said.

Last year, 40 San Lorenzo Valley residents got incentives to replace their fireplace or old wood-burning stoves and hundreds dumped yard waste at the transfer station for free rather than burning it, but Richard Stedman of the Monterey Bay Unified Air Pollution Control District doesn't want to take credit for any improvement in air quality.

San Lorenzo Valley Unified School District superintendent Julie Haff was honored as one of three 2012-13 educators of the year chosen by the Santa Cruz County Office of Education.