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Live Music Roundup Santa Cruz County: New Year’s Eve 2025

Julie Horner,
🎶 A Comprehensive Listing of Live Music on New Year’s Eve in the Santa Cruz Mountains & Santa Cruz County! Here’s the roundup of concerts and entertainment for Wednesday, December 31st, 2025! Enjoy all there is to do in Santa Cruz County to ring in the New Year 2026! 🎶🥂🍾💃 New Year’s Eve 2025 🕰️ Scottish Hogmanay Celebration w/ Parker… Read More
Entertainment Live Music 

Santa Cruz County Live Music Weekend Roundup: December 12-14

Julie Horner,
🎶 A Comprehensive Listing of Live Music in the Santa Cruz Mountains & Santa Cruz County! Here’s the roundup of concerts and live entertainment for the weekend of Friday, December 12 through Sunday, December 14, 2025! We’ve rounded up all the great music we could find at Santa Cruz County’s best eateries and music venues and thrown in all the… Read More
Alecia Haselton Music 

Sunshine Ghost: Singer-Songwriter Alecia Haselton Releases New Single

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By Julie Horner Corralitos singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Alecia Haselton is back home and dipping into a well of emotions with her latest single, Sunshine Ghost. Available on your favorite streaming platforms, Alecia said, “Sunshine Ghost is an alt rock song co-written with my late boyfriend and bandmate Nathan Rael Candelaria in Nashville.” She and Rael had been working on the… Read More
Woodmill Band Music Valley People 

Grist for the Mill: WoodMill Band Blends the Best of the Valley

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By Mary Andersen and Julie Horner There’s something about the Santa Cruz Mountains that brings musicians together. When local songwriter Dave Miller joins longtime friends and fellow mountain players, something magic happens. That spirit has taken shape in WoodMill, a new band blending country, rock, and Americana into a sound as natural as the redwoods surrounding them. “I’ve been performing… Read More
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California State Parks Continues Pile Burning in Santa Cruz Mountains

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California State Parks is conducting pile-burning operations across several mountain parks in Santa Cruz County, with work continuing as weather and air-quality conditions allow through April 2026. Roughly 400 burn piles are planned across Big Basin Redwoods, Castle Rock, and Henry Cowell Redwoods State Parks, including the Fall Creek Unit. The burns support long-term forest health and wildfire resilience. At… Read More
Bonny Doon CZU Fire Fire Recovery 

Five Years After the CZU Complex Fire, Bonny Doon is Smaller, but Closer.

Max Guerra
By Max Guerra Five years after the CZU Complex Fire burned over 80,000 acres and destroyed 911 homes in the Santa Cruz Mountains, only 160 have been rebuilt, leaving many neighborhoods dramatically transformed and still grappling with the long road to recovery. Rebuilding in the burn scar of the CZU fires has come with complex barriers. Local bureaucracy ensures that… Read More
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Santa Cruz County Live Music Weekend Roundup: December 5-7

Julie Horner,
🎶 Live Music Santa Cruz Mountains & Santa Cruz County! Here’s the roundup of concerts and live entertainment for the weekend of Friday, December 5 through Sunday, December 7, 2025! We’ve rounded up all the great music we could find at Santa Cruz County’s best eateries and music venues and thrown in all the local festivals and fairs. We even… Read More
Yuletide Solstice Blessings Astrology Columns 

Yuletide Solstice Blessings | December Horoscope

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By Catie Cadge PhD Holiday greetings, Santa Cruz County stargazers! Yuletide solstice blessings to everyone. December begins with a Full Moon, 13°03’ Gemini, on the 4th at 3:14 pm Pacific time. A “supermoon,” La Luna is also “out of bounds” at extreme declination. An out-of-bounds Moon gives it an unconventional spin, a heightened emotional time when the Moon is beyond… Read More