Scotts Valley News

Zeda Dowell of Ben Lomond is working to help two orphanages in Tijuana, Mexico, this holiday season.

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.

EDITOR, I recently read an opinion article written by Susan Silver, superintendent of the Scotts Valley School District stating, that she was setting the grand jury straight.

Target stores continues to look at expanding its presence in Santa Cruz County beyond its single Watsonville location following its decision to abandon plans to build a store in Scotts Valley.

Scotts Valley-based Cub Scout Troop 604 will have its second book sale this weekend to benefit the Valley Churches United Missions Holiday Drive.

Scotts Valley leaders pledged their participation in a statewide pilot program designed to help property owners cut water and energy use.

A San Lorenzo Valley High School graduate left paralyzed by a car accident last spring is suing the county for an unspecified amount of damages.

Following on from its acquisition of Pigeon Point Systems last year, Actel has announced IP core enhancements to its Fusion mixed-signal FPGAs that cater to platform management applications, particularly xTCA.

A 17-year-old Scotts Valley girl was arrested Saturday night after she admitted she planned to give away Ecstasy and Ketamine at a rave in another county.

Calvary Chapel is settling into its permanent home at 1500 Green Hills Road, Scotts Valley, after a search for the right spot that took many years.

Despite its reputation as a natural wildlife preserve for 1960s-style hippies and similarly free-spirited lifestyle rebels, Santa Cruz County was once, in fact, a quiet, conservative, decidedly un-hip place.

Dr. Bruce Lipton received the 2009 Goi Peace Award in recognition of his pioneering work in the field of new biology.

EDITOR, With the end of Target, we need to have open dialogue and discussion, like the proposed Town Center and other city projects, which include neighboring residents and businesses who will feel the most impact of whatever is eventually developed there.

A county woman suffered major injuries early today when her Lexus sedan traveled off Highway 17 and collided with a tree near Granite Creek Road.

The Scotts Valley branch of Santa Cruz County bank collected more than 20 percent of the 141 pairs of pajamas donated at bank locations in the county.

EDITOR, The traffic study is blunt: A Target at the proposed Gateway South location will make traffic miserable through Scotts Valley, with or without a Midtown freeway exchange, with many intersections pushed to unacceptable service levels.

Medical marijuana already may be legal in California, but a new push to legalize and tax the drug, either for medicine or entertainment, is gaining new momentum.

The woman accused of driving drunk and causing a collision that killed two men on Highway 1 north of Santa Cruz pleaded not guilty Wednesday morning to two counts of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated.

Scotts Valleya s Jose Absalon Barrientos was killed Sunday afternoon on his way to a family picnic when a driver crashed head-on into his Harley-Davidson on Highway 1. Barrientos, 54, was pronounced dead at Highway 1 and Scaroni Road, north of Santa Cruz, according to the California Highway Patrol and the county Coronera s Office.

"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.