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October 30, 2009
October 30, 2009 - November 5, 2009
Volume XII, Issue 32
In This Issue...
State Park Budget Cuts Hit Home
Capitola Says No to Another Rispin Extension Request
Capitola City Manager To Retire
Planning the New Scotts Valley Library
Surfing Comes Home to Boulder Creek
More Trouble at the Brookdale Inn
Loma Fire Contained
VCUM Kicks Off Thanksgiving Food Drive
SV's Red Ribbon Week Promotes Drug-Free Lives
Plaque Commemorates Lime Works
Bounty of Pjs
Water Manager Praises Conservation Efforts
Wells Fargo Gives $24K to Local Schools
Change Your Clock, Change Your Batteries
Thirty-Meter Telescope Discussion
Crimebeat
Crime Beat 10/30/09
No Charges in High School Sports Fundraising Money Theft
Environment
Rain or No Rain? Forecasters Don't Know
The Weather Twins
Mark Stone Advocates Banning Single-Use Bags
Newsmakers
Scotts Valley High Haunted Hospital Raises Money to Fight Cancer
New Boulder Creek Business Board Continuing Most Seasonal Events
Monning Holds Office Hours
Redwoods League Announces Grants
People
Scotts Valley Chamber Announces 2009 Honorees
The Mid-County Post > News
Loma Fire Contained
Wildfire again showed its power in Santa Cruz County one week after fire season was officially declared to be over, scorching 485 acres that had been soaked by recent rains and burned in the prior year's Summit Fire.

The blaze is fully contained and all evacuations have been lifted. It started about 3 a.m. on Oct. 25, and at the peak, 60 homes faced mandatory evacuation. About 250 in the Ormsby Cutoff and Eureka Canyon area were threatened.

A trailer and two outbuildings were destroyed.

The cause remains under investigation, but officials confirmed that controlled burning had recently taken place in the area. Several days of high winds contributed to concerns as nearly 1,500 firefighters converged to fight the blaze. Winds had calmed by Oct. 29, but Cal Fire had not yet projected when the fire would be fully controlled.
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