Brookdale News

TRULIO DISGRACIAS AND MONKEY It's hard to imagine a more fitting band to ring in the New Year than Trulio Disgracias: led by the incomparable Norwood Fisher of Fishbone and featuring a rotating cast of funk, rock, jazz and ska luminaries that includes members of P-Funk, it's certain to be a bacchanalian affair.

IT'S TIME TO push 2009 out the door and get on 2010's good side by giving it a big wet kiss on its way in.

New Year's Eve events in Santa Cruz offer a wide range of experiences beginning with the Do It Yourself parade down Pacific Avenue in Santa Cruz, to concerts and parties at all the major clubs, to a two-day, alcohol-free event at the Vets Hall.

Scrooge: The Cabrillo Stage theatre company settled on Dickens' classic A Christmas Carol' for their first holiday production, which runs through Jan.

NEW YEAR'S EVE EVE: Dance to the oldies by Joe Sharino and his band Dec. 30. Count-down clock, party favors, balloon drop.

The Press Banner invited local residents to share their letters to Santa. Here is a sampling.

While most people have Thanksgiving dinner with the family at home, 10 percent of Americans will dine at a restaurant for the holiday, according to Forbes magazine.

A Tuesday afternoon fire seared its way through a duplex on a Highway 9 corner, shooting flames and smoke into the air and displacing an estimated 13 people and several pets, authorities said.

Santa Cruz County Sheriffa s Office June 14 A glass beer bottle was hurled through the front window of a home at 9:44 p.m. on Glen Arbor Road in Felton.

Samuel Zehr, a 19-year-old from Ben Lomond, suffered major injuries when his Ford Mustang flipped on its side while he was driving on Love Creek Road.

A 19-year-old Ben Lomond man was hurt when his Ford Mustang crashed on a mountain road Saturday night allegedly was under the influence of alcohol at the time of the crash, the California Highway Patrol reported.

"Have you ever seen a ghost?"A That question was answered by 100A residentsA of Scotts Valley andA the four towns in the San Lorenzo Valley in an unofficial survey.

A 23-year-old Los Gatos woman rolled her Toyota Tacoma nearly 200 feet down an embankment after falling asleep at the wheel Thursday, according to California Highway Patrol.

The owner and general manager of Brookdale Inn and Spa are convinced the Highway 9 establishment is getting a bad rap.

Brookdale Inn and Spa owner Sanjiv Kakkar was arrested on multiple charges this week by detectives with the Santa Cruz County District Attorneya s Office.

Brookdale Inn and Spa owner Sanjiv Kakkar was arrested Friday afternoon on suspicion of not having workers' compensation insurance, not paying an employee's medical bill after he was hurt on the job and paying workers with checks that bounced, according to the District Attorney's Office.

A few hundred Hells Angels motorcycle club members arrived in Brookdale for a weekend convention at the Brookdale Inn & Spa last weekend.

Editora s note: This is Part 2 of a two-part series on historical gardening. Landscaping in the Santa Cruz Mountains in the late 1800s and early 1900s could be lush or sparse, depending on the location and nearby logging activities.

Steve and Brassica are going to the Santa Cruz County Fair this week, but unlike most fairgoers they likely won't be coming home.

Lucjan Szewczyk/Press-Banner Fewer people are staying in Santa Cruz County hotels, according to the Santa Cruz Conference and Visitors Council, which reported a decrease in hotel room occupancy and average daily rates during the first half of 2009.