Community
The people, festivals, and load-bearing grudges of the Santa Cruz Valley.
Around the Valley
Valley Hardware to Close After 38 Years; Town Mourns Store It Last Visited in 2019
“People are devastated,” said owner Gus Terlizzi. “Devastated people, it turns out, buy their fasteners online.”
By Dot Hagerty
Police Beat
Police Beat: The Javelina Was Not, on Reflection, a Burglar
Selected items from the week's incident log, presented substantially as received.
By Ledger Staff
Around the Valley
A Grammarian Corrected a Wedding Toast Mid-Speech. The Reception Has Notes.
It was, witnesses agree, for all intensive purposes, a lovely evening — right up until the moment it wasn't.
By Dot Hagerty
Around the Valley
Pecan Festival Committee Splits Over ‘Puh-KAHN’ vs. ‘PEE-can,’ Threatening November Event
Forty-one years of harmony in the groves, undone in a single planning meeting.
By Dot Hagerty
Only in Print
In print this week Quail Creek book club completes first book in eleven months; celebration planned, book not discussed.
In print this week Lost tortoise from Madera Canyon Estates found two doors down, 'not lost, visiting.'