Felton News

Before Nickel Creek split up in 2007, the band used to play for 2,000 folks at the Warfield when it passed through our neck of the woods.

I went downtown this afternoon. It was a wonderful warm summer afternoon, with just enough breeze from the ocean to keep it from being hot.

This Beach Boys tribute and surf rock band throws a Fourth of July surf rock party with all kinds of surf music, including California Girls,' Fun, Fun, Fun,' Good Vibrations' and Surfin' USA.' WHEN: 8 p.m. July 4 WHERE: Don Quixote's, 6275 Highway 9, Felton COST: $10 DETAILS: 603-2294, donquixotesmusic.com Danjuma and Onola Putumayo recording ...

The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk's Free Friday Night Bands on the Beach series continues with Gregg Rolie, the original lead singer for Santana and co-founder of Journey.

Loch Lomond Recreation Area will be closed for maintenance Friday. The park should reopen to the public on Saturday, but those planning a visit should call the park's recorded message on Friday evening at 335-7424. The reservoir, which provides water for Santa Cruz Water Department customers, is open 6 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. each day in June and July, ...

All this rain and cool weather has been great for lettuces and other greens that peter out in hot weather.

NO MORE READING: - SLynette George, Boulder Creek Branch Library's acting branch manager, reads to a packed room during weekly story hour Wednesday, June 24.

I would like to give a thank you to the SPCA on Chanticleer Avenue across from Grey Bears.

Personal Trainer and Nutrition Consultant Jaimi Ellison works with Julia Cuppy. Cuppy has been working with Ellison since her wedding a year and a half ago.

At the Westside's Trescony Park community garden, 65 Santa Cruzans are hoping one of 47 plots will free up to stake their heirloom tomatoes, trellis pickling cucumbers and raise giant glowing sunflowers.

Dave Alvin hits town in support of his latest CD, recorded in Austin and tentatively titled Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women, featuring Cindy Cashdollar, Nina Gerber, Christy McWilson Laurie Lewis, Amy Farris, Sarah Brown and Lisa Pankratz.

Despite the misgivings of fire chiefs countywide, the City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to resume the annual sales around the Fourth of July holiday after devastating wildfires in 2008 sparked a one-year ban.

Ray Futura will have management responsibility for 13 employees, five rural routes, 3,252 delivery points and a daily mail volume of 8,121 pieces.

This month, the Santa Cruz County library oversight board continues to grapple with making $1.3 million in cuts, resulting in the layoff of 25 employees.

They met, they listened and they asked questions. But Craig Prescott's family didn't leave convinced Tuesday that the 38-year-old former Stanislaus County sheriff's deputy died because of a hypertensive heart disease, as pathologist Dr.

More than 800 friends, family members and students gathered at the Scotts Valley Sports Center on Saturday, marking the two month anniversary of the car accident that left 19-year-old Alexandria Pomianowski paralyzed from the chin down.

A "Rally for Allie" will be held today at the Scotts Valley Sports Center, 251 Kings Village Road.

It's an uncommon career switch, to be sure. Michelle Chappel went from a Princeton-educated doctoral professor at UC Santa Cruz to a tireless singer/songwriter, but she hasn't looked back.

The legendary Bigfoot is not a legend after all, and has been seen in remote parts of Santa Cruz County, according to the sponsors of a June 7 discussion and exhibit on the reality of Bigfoot.

One man was hospitalized after he was stabbed during a fight with an acquaintance near the corner of Union and Grant streets Friday afternoon, police reported.