Guest Columnist

A wonderful new event has surfaced in our Aptos community thanks to Friends of the Library and Denise Ward, a local resident who also loves to read and to bring community together.

Raising children can be one of the most rewarding experiences in life. It is also very costly.

At the local level the county has taken significant steps toward modernizing and improving affordable housing regulations to help encourage the creation of affordable housing.

The first owners of Aptos were the King and Queen of Spain. The Catholic Church and the Army administered their holdings.

A year ago my update showed the median sales price in Aptos at $935,000.

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Karen Hibble is co-executive director of the Aptos Chamber of Commerce.

The second you realize this article is housing-related, like most people your first comment has to be "housing prices are crazy" followed by "I hear people in San Jose are paying over a million for a small two-bedroom home" followed again by "Housing pric

The Board of Supervisors recently completed our budget hearings and as part of the hearings we received reports from departments about their goals for the coming year based on Board priorities.

In a recent budget message to the Board, the County Administrative Officer noted that as the county emerged from the Great Recession, the Board has worked to limit the growth of the overall budget while focusing on restoring reserves and investing in key