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Inflation and “The Fed”

July 5, 2022July 5, 2022 slvpost.com0 comment

Real Estate News You Can Use By M.C. Dwyer The biggest real estate news happened mid-June when the Federal Reserve raised its lending rate by a stunning 0.75% for the first time in nearly 30 years. Usually rates adjust in 0.25% and 0.5% increments. Fed policy members agree another 0.75% increase will follow: the goal is reducing runaway inflation of… Read More

Fire Recovery Outdoors

Big Basin Park Reopens July 22

June 30, 2022June 30, 2022 slvpost.com0 comment

By Julie Horner Big Basin Redwoods State Park reopens on Friday, July 22, 2022, with limited day-use access by reservation only. The reservation system opens on Friday, July 1, 2022. The Redwood Loop near the former visitor center and approximately 18 miles of fire roads near the park’s core have been cleared for visitor access with limited services available. Highway… Read More

Entertainment

Laughter is Medicine: Sandy Hackett’s New Comedy Series at the Brookdale Lodge

June 30, 2022June 30, 2022 slvpost.com0 comment

By Michele Murphy We could all use a laugh these days, or a couple. Luckily, lots of laughs are on their way to the historic Brookdale Lodge. The storied resort was once a hotbed of entertainment, where the rich, famous, and infamous would come to dine, swim, and soak in the big bands of the era, well-known comedians, and a… Read More

Column: Antonia Bradford Fire Recovery

Barn Raising in the Mountains

June 20, 2022June 21, 2022 slvpost.com0 comment

As the Two Year Anniversary of the CZU Fire Nears, Community Launches a Citizen-led Approach By Antonia Bradford The two year anniversary of the CZU Fire is rapidly approaching. As the smoke cleared and life returned to normal for the vast majority of the mountain, fire families who lost everything quickly realized the reality of our situations: we were underinsured.… Read More

Food & Drink

Cocktails: Summer Lemon Drops

June 18, 2022June 18, 2022 slvpost.com0 comment

By Robin Horn My husband Bruce invented this recipe during an impromptu birthday party for me at a house with a Meyers lemon tree full of lemons. He experimented throughout the night with our drop-in guests, perfecting his recipe to the ideal mixture. Lightweights that we are (in the drinking department, at least), half of the vodka is still left… Read More

History Sports

When the Warriors Played in Santa Cruz

June 16, 2022June 16, 2022 slvpost.com0 comment

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

Books Music

Local Musician and Artist Bluzar Blue Releases Retrospective

June 15, 2022June 30, 2022 slvpost.com0 comment

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

Letters

Letter: PG&E Stop our Shutoffs

June 15, 2022July 3, 2022 slvpost.com0 comment

Dear PG&E, You turned our power off today (Tuesday, 6/14/22), and yesterday for a total of 6 hours. Last summer, you turned off our power for 10 days, and 200 hours with the excuse that your new “smart” sensor detected that something touched the power line feeding the San Lorenzo Valley. We waited as your crews did an 8-hour walk… Read More

Environment Local News Outdoors

Albino Redwoods: The Ghosts of the Forest

June 13, 2022June 30, 2022 slvpost.com0 comment

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

Infrastructure Local News Water

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

June 12, 2022June 18, 2022 slvpost.com0 comment

By Jayme Ackemann The United States has been failing to maintain its roads, bridges, and utilities for decades. A report known as the “Infrastructure Report Card” tracks the state of the nation’s disrepair and rates it. Last year we got a C-minus. California’s water and roadways are barely passing with Cs and Ds. This isn’t a surprise to anyone living… Read More

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