By Marcey Klein BS, NC Face masks provide us with the extra tools that we need to protect our immune systems from a potential invader. I have heard of a few cases of people who have tested positive for COVID and then came in contact with hundreds of people (aRead More →
By Wendy Sigmund There is not much more to say. We had a lightning storm in the middle of a heat wave. The lightning caused fires deep in the forest. So deep no one knew they were there until they were so big they created the second largest fire inRead More →
It is a historic day here at the Brookdale Lodge. Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors Bruce McPherson joins Pravin Patel, the owner of Brookdale Lodge, at this historic event. The ribbon was cut at 5:30. The large crowd cheered at these two as they had fun cutting the ribbon.Read More →
by Lisa Robinson It was an exceptionally hot day in July as two teenage friends, Gladys Hawkett and Lillian McDonald of Oakland, enjoyed their summer vacation in Brookdale. They were staying at Tekwah, the Brookdale summer cottage, of Joseph and Emma Sills also of Oakland, on Clear Creek, theRead More →
The storied landmark is poised for history in the remaking By Julie Horner Peering through a jagged window, the bare bulbs of workmen’s shop lights illuminate what seem like bones and sinew – open studs and joists – which frame little now but bareness and dust. The fireplace where theRead More →