Ben Lomond News

For over 60 years, the Boulder Creek Fire Department has served up fluffy flapjacks, scrambled eggs and sausage links for their Fourth of July fundraiser.

This illustrates just how dried out vegetation and woods have gotten on June 24, 2008, as seen from the entrance of the Ben Lomond Transfer Station off of Newell Creek Rd.

A look at the some of the stories Sentinel reporters are pursuing this afternoon.

Dan Coyro/Sentinel file Michael McClish listens as hes sentenced to 18 years in prison last September.

My husband and I have been volunteers in the Bonny Doon Ecological Reserve for 11 years.

In addition to thank-you signs dotting many driveways after the Martin Fire, these expressions of support were received by the Press-Banner After the ash settled, Cal Fire officials still had not determined how ...

The first firefighters to arrive at the Bonny Doon wildland fire last week, and many of those who followed shortly afterward, were volunteers.

Dan Coyro/Sentinel Brian and Marcia Cleary talk about what used to be their small but comfortable home on Martin Road in bonny Doon.

Charles Mixson/Special to the Sentinel Pasquale Catizone helps his Mom grind mustard seed as a way to spice up the mayo accompanying artichokes "Kids can COOK! Kids can COOOOOOOK." Pasquale Catizone, age 5, ...

Contributed photo Mountain View-based Interplast boasts local surgical teams that have performed in under-served regions of Africa, Asia and Latin America 68,000 and counting.

Even as they're counting the final ballots from the June 3 election, Santa Cruz County elections officials are preparing the groundwork for the presidential general election Nov.

San Lorenzo Valley voters among dissenters Stone Voters in five rural or semirural election precincts dissented in the decisive June 3 re-election victory of county Supervisor Mark Stone, a Press-Banner ...

State officials attempted to clear brush two years ago on the piece of land a where a fire now raging in Santa Cruz County began, but much of the work was delayed and ultimately not finished because of ...

With only 31 percent of the county's registered voters going to the polls on June 3, Santa Cruz County's quarter-cent sales tax for libraries was made permanent with the passage of Measure R. The initiative ...

Dan Coyro/Sentinel Ben Lomond firefighter Ken Frye pickets for support from passing drivers while the oppositon takes up position across the intersection at Highway 9 and Mill Street in downtwon Ben Lomond ...

It won't be long before the Ben Lomond fire board considers what to do about seismic and safety concerns at its 68-year-old fire station now that a $10 million bond to rebuild it lost at the polls.

A Superior Court judge appointed the alternate public defenders to represent accused murderer Michael McClish on Thursday morning, but the former Ben Lomond resident did not enter a plea.

Dan Coyro/Sentinel Josh Logan of Santa Cruz votes one day early Monday at the county election center Months of campaigning have finally given way to today's election.

Fire crews on Sunday continued the grueling, tedious task of extinguishing embers and digging out smoldering tree roots in the 4,270-acre Summit fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

Patrick Heher of Scotts Valley reads a poem he wrote in front of his Monte Vista High School class.