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Year: 2022

Wilt Chamberlain History Sports 

When the Warriors Played in Santa Cruz

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By Randall Brown “If you see some extra tall men around the streets of Santa Cruz…don’t be alarmed. They are not from another planet.” Santa Cruz Sentinel April 1962 Wilt Chamberlain had enjoyed a record-breaking season with the Philadelphia Warriors, scoring 4,029 points, including 100 in a single game. Forty-five years later, these numbers have yet to be matched. His… Read More
Bluzar Blue Books Music 

Local Musician and Artist Bluzar Blue Releases Retrospective

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By Julie Horner Longtime Santa Cruz Mountains local Bluzar Blue has released a compilation of songs, illustrations, quips, and observations in a book entitled “Bluzar Blue, In Black and White and In Color.” The book showcases 75 colored plates of his favorite artistic creations, finished and unfinished, since 1969. “I was having a hard time getting my artwork into galleries,”… Read More
Albino Redwoods Gale McCreary Column: Gale McCreary Environment Outdoors 

Albino Redwoods: The Ghosts of the Forest

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Contributors to a Mighty and Interconnected Family By Gale McCreary It is a student, crouched in the shamrock-like oxalis plants on the shady redwood forest floor, who first alerts me to the mutant. With careful steps I approach the young man as he poses, one knee on his flattened blaick backpack, the other raised as a writing table for his… Read More
Events 

Live Music Weekend Roundup June 17 to June 19

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Happy Father’s Day weekend! Here’s the roundup of live music for the Santa Cruz Mountains and around town…and a few cool events outside the area…for June 17 through June 19, 2022! Even more good news! There are pancakes! Enjoy the Fathers Day Pancake Breakfast at the Zayante Firehouse: https://fb.me/e/6hdk5AqJR Friday, June 17 Father’s Day Bluegrass FestivalNevada County FairgroundsThursday – Sunday,… Read More
Water district san lorenzo valley Infrastructure Local News Water 

How Do We Talk About Water in the San Lorenzo Valley?

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By Jayme Ackemann This is a column I write each month without compensation. It is entirely my personal opinion. I am a San Lorenzo Valley Water District Board Member but the opinions contained herein are completely my own. The United States has been failing to maintain its roads, bridges, and utilities for decades. A report known as the “Infrastructure Report… Read More
black elderberry flower fritters alison steele Column Alison Steele Columns Food & Drink 

Black Elderflower Fritters

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By Alison Steele         The first flower I ever tasted was a honeysuckle blossom. Honeysuckle grows all over the hot rainy south in the summertime. It crawls along split rail fences, creeps up in the trees, and across old barns. My brother and I would spend hours following rivers over pasture and along railroad tracks, across bridges and through the mountains.… Read More
saddle mountain highway 236 big basin redwoods state park Boulder Creek Community 

Letter: Response to CA State Parks Regarding Saddle Mountain

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Re: REIMAGINING BIG BASIN VISION SUMMARY published 5/25/2022 By Saddle Mountain Neighbors, Boulder Creek, CA JUNE 3, 2022 TO: Will Fourt, Senior Project Planner, Reimagining Big Basin Project Cc: Chris Spohrer, Santa Cruz District Superintendent, CA State Parks Armando Quintero, Director, CA State Parks SUMMARY We are a group of 28 neighbors representing 19 properties within one mile of the… Read More