Julie Horner, Writer

Written by Julie Horner

Julie lives and works in Boulder Creek and is an active participant in the county's vibrant music scene. She loves the outdoors and is the go-to expert on Santa Cruz Mountains hiking trails.

Libraries Local News

A Design from the Heart: Felton Branch Library

April 5, 2017December 28, 2025 Julie Hornerfelton, libraries0 comment

Architect Teall Messer invests his heart in a project long on the drawing board. By Julie Horner Willows, oaks, and a few cottonwoods jostle and whisper along the banks of Bull Creek as it flows – controlled now by a culvert to mitigate flooding – under city streets to the San Lorenzo River in downtown Felton. On its way, the… Read More

Business Local News Main Street Main Street SLV Radio

KBCZ Boulder Creek Community Radio Finds New Home

March 29, 2017January 4, 2026 Julie HornerLocal News, radio

By Julie Horner From the window overlooking the bustling intersection of this one-stop small mountain town, a constant stream of people and cars kaleidoscope past in a blur of sound and color. Afternoon sun brightens newly painted walls, the space clean, comfortably spare, and cozy yet with plenty of wiggle room to work the imagination. Sheltered within the KBCZ’s freshly… Read More

Local News Water

Active Slide Hampers Access to SLVWD Lyon Surface Water Treatment Plant

March 19, 2017January 4, 2026 Julie HornerInfrastructure, SLVWater

By Julie Horner It started about three weeks ago as a 6-inch crack. An employee noticed and said, “There’s a crack forming over there…better put some cold-patch on it.” The Lyon Surface Water Treatment Plant and its 3-million gallon welded steel holding tank, located at the top of a narrow, gated SLVWD access road about a mile from downtown Boulder… Read More

Music

Camp Krem Hosts Summer Revelers at DIO Fest

March 18, 2017January 4, 2026 Julie Hornerhistory, Music

Camping Unlimited doing it up for fifth annual Do-It-Ourselves Festival By Julie Horner As antidote to the dark and wet, rustic Jon Lucchese Center stands on a sandy plateau in full sun biding over a sweeping panorama of forest and blue sky. The air, soft and moistly fragrant with oak and bay, is gratefully languid after an eternity of torrential… Read More

Valley People

Horse Balm and Hard Work

February 3, 2017January 4, 2026 Julie Hornerboulder creek, community

Boulder Creek Neighbors social network founded by an old-school cowboy with community at heart. By Julie Horner Kevin Foster and his rodeo buddy, Billy Ray Coffey, stood tall and lean in front of Jenna Sue’s, chiseled, well-tanned faces shaded by crisp cowboy hats. Both men seemed naturally compelled to greet passersby – with a gentleman’s nod, touch to the brim,… Read More

Entertainment Music

On Spirit Wings

October 10, 2016January 4, 2026 Julie Hornerlocal bands, Medicine Road, Music, Pablo Eagle, Santa Cruz Mountains0 comment

Boulder Creek Band ‘Medicine Road’ Heals Through Music By Julie Horner Pablo Eagle used to ride his motorcycle through the Santa Cruz Mountains regularly. For some reason one day he took his pickup. It was a beautiful day for riding, warm and dry, with no wind at all. A motorcyclist with a woman on the back passed him. “God, I… Read More

Music Valley People

Kenny Hill Guitars

February 12, 2016December 7, 2025 Julie HornerMusic & Concerts0 comment

Master Craftsman “Tilting Gravity” in Ben Lomond, California By Julie Horner A solo classical guitar breathed seductively into the early morning chill as I let myself into the Hill Guitar Company showroom in Ben Lomond, CA. Gentleman luthier, Kenny Hill, sat just inside, momentarily absorbed in music making, hands wrapped purposefully sensuous around one of his own instruments. The music… Read More