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Barefoot on the Crooked Path: Yule

December 15, 2020January 2, 2021 slvpost.comwinter solstice0 comment

By Melinda McNutt, Seanchaidh Yule or Winter Solstice: the shortest day/the longest night of the year usually arrives in our Northern Hemisphere December 21st or 22nd. Granny was clan matriarch. We’d gather around her hearth, light candles from the Yule log, feast, sing, tell stories, and hold vigil for Great Mother as she labored through the darkness. On Bay leaves… Read More

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Gathering the Good

December 2, 2020March 18, 2021 slvpost.comBig Basin, wineries0 comment

The 2020 Estate vintage is lost. The vines are still heavy with fruit that will now be cut away, too smoky to be palatable. “The grapes are way off the scale smoke damaged,” Big Basin winery owner Bradley Brown said. Workers in the field have dropped the clusters off the vine onto the ground. “It’s kind of sad. They look... Read More

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The Little Red Schoolhouse on Alba Road

November 4, 2020November 20, 2020 slvpost.com0 comment

By Lucia MacLean It stood for 125 years. Since the day it was built in 1895 it has been a rallying point for the local community. It first saw service as a grammar school and Sunday School, always morphing into whatever the community needed. When the neighborhood needed mail service, or seeing the road maintained, it provided a central focal… Read More

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Boomeria – The King Always Wins

October 23, 2020July 8, 2024 slvpost.comBonnyDoon, boomeria, czulightningcomplexfire0 comment

Boomeria in Bonny Doon Suffers a Scorching By Julie Horner In Bonny Doon the Warnella Fire and the Waddell Fire combined to make a firestorm. The fire climbed up into the Santa Cruz Mountains burning most everything in its path. Boomeria, built by the Boomers starting around 1957, survived by the heroic efforts of friends and neighbors. A colorful Renaissance… Read More

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Home

October 2, 2020October 28, 2020 slvpost.comartists, BonnyDoon, czulightningcomplex, musicians0 comment

By Suzy Norris We’re home. Our birds are ecstatic as they burst out of that little confining cage and fly and fly, singing and twirling around their living room…joyjoyjoy! Doggies are not quite so sure…kinda scared and clingy, but picking up steam as we wander around exploring our new world of ash and burned leaf cinders, old and young smoke,… Read More

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Friends of Last Chance

October 2, 2020October 23, 2020 slvpost.comczulightningcomplex, last chance, Swanton, wildfire0 comment

By Melinda MacNaughton Hello Last Chance. I grew up on South Pine and my folks lived there for many years after I moved on. Some of you might remember them, Jim and Mary George. My mom was a huge horse person, she started Last Chance 4-H Club and had quite a few of the kids ride with her and Emma… Read More

FIRMS FIre Information Management System

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NASA’s Fire Information for Resource Management System

August 22, 2020January 2, 2021 slvpost.comfire, wildfire0 comment

The Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) distributes Near Real-Time (NRT) active fire data within 3 hours of satellite observation from both the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS). Read More

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CALTOPO CZU Fire Map Highway 9

August 22, 2020January 2, 2021 slvpost.comfire, SanLorenzoValley, wildfire0 comment

View the map here: CALTOPO Highway 9 Fire Map From the CALTOPO.com website: CalTopo is the creation of Matt Jacobs as a solution to some challenges facing search and rescue members. Matt recognized some of these problems as a member of a search and rescue organization in the San Francisco Bay area in 2010. CalTopo was launched as a tool… Read More

NWCG Fire Incident Map San Lorenzo Valley Bonny Doon

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NWCG Active Fire Detection Satellite

August 21, 2020January 2, 2021 slvpost.comfire, wildfire0 comment

National Interagency Fire Center Satellite Map with Fire Perimeter https://maps.nwcg.gov/sa/?fbclid=IwAR3673fqT99dMyV5b9jHJL-Auv83Q8XyaoyNSGUQHVcI2DTY3DlLREkcbTg#/%3F/EditLayerFireWeather/37.1018/-122.1105/12 Read More

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Support Local News & Events

July 3, 2020March 18, 2021 slvpost.comfundraiser0 comment

Welcome to the San Lorenzo Valley Post, an independent, local women-owned, community supported online news and event resource for the San Lorenzo Valley and the Santa Cruz Mountains. Considered and curated content, balanced local reporting, robust community calendaring, dedicated information sharing. Co-founded by Julie Horner and Mary Andersen with support from a team of writers, editors, graphic designers, and community… Read More