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Albino Redwoods Gale McCreary Column: Gale McCreary Environment Outdoors 

Albino Redwoods: The Ghosts of the Forest

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
Water district san lorenzo valley Infrastructure Local News Water 

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

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

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

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
Measure D fails Election Local News 

Measure D Fails

By Mary Andersen The hotly debated Measure D Greenway Initiative sits at 8580 “yes” votes and 21,021 “no” this morning. Votes will continue to be counted throughout the week with a final certification in early July. But these early results bode well for Roaring Camp Railroads and CEO Melani Clark who initiated the building of a geographically and politically broad… Read More
Nina fixer upper Column: MC Dwyer Columns Real Estate 

Surfing Summer Waves in Real Estate

By M.C. Dwyer Summer weather is here — Boulder Creek recorded a high of 99 recently, Scotts Valley hit 95 — even if the season doesn’t officially start until June 21st. Right now we’re at the height of the home selling season, and home prices are sizzling like a summer bar-b-que. But the average 30-year mortgage rate is 2% higher… Read More
Fern Fire Boulder Creek May 2022 Fire Local News 

Fern Fire Recap

On Monday, May 30 around 5:00 pm Cal Fire reported a vegetation fire in the hills above Fern Drive north of downtown Boulder Creek and west of Highway 9. The fire was reported to be a quarter acre and slow-moving with favorable wind conditions. One helicopter, two air tankers and a spotter plane were dispatched. Ground crews at that time… Read More