Business Local News Main Street Main Street SLV Radio 

KBCZ Boulder Creek Community Radio Finds New Home

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

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
Entertainment Music 

On Spirit Wings: Medicine Road

Boulder Creek Band 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 wish I… Read More
Music Valley People 

Kenny Hill Guitars

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
Cremer House Felton California Business Main Street Main Street SLV 

A Toast to the Craft: Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing at The Cremer House

By Julie Horner For two luxurious sun-drenched days, the Santa Cruz Mountains Art, Wine, and Music Festival invited revelers to stay local, kick off their shoes, dance on the green to live music, and enjoy a final taste of summer among the redwoods. On hand to pour hand-crafted suds: Boulder Creek Brewing on Saturday and Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing on… Read More
Mardeen Gordon Where the Wild Things Are Art Valley People 

Keeper of Threads: Embroidery Artist Mardeen Gordon

By Julie Horner There is nothing as elementally atmospheric as hearing live music filtered through a redwood forest. The higher up you are on the mountainside, the more clearly sound drifts, and you feel at once gathered into community, part of the pulse, without ever leaving your yard. The trumpet player practicing the next neighborhood over, the kid on his… Read More