Index -
the latest issue of the Highlander is at the top:
 May/June 2008 Democratic
Assembly Candidates at May 14 RBDA Meeting - Apple Moth (LBAM) Spraying
Halted - Cement Plant,Quarry Emissions Need More Study - Supervisors
Act on Building Code Changes, Postpone Discussion of Code Compliance -
Redtree to Harvest 60 Acres of Trees - Frans Lanting Donates Proceeds
of Photo Sale to RBDA - Yana Jacobs Resigns from RBDA Board
March/April 2008 State
Wants to Spray Bonny Doon for Apple Moth – UCSC Mediation Drags On –
Supervisors Continue to Mull Building Code Changes – Fire/Emergency
Services: Still Many Questions - No Answers Yet to Cemex Issues - RBDA
Website: Do You Use It? - 2008 Board Officers – What the New Membership
Policy Means to You
January/February
2008 Panel
on Proposed Changes to County Building Code for Small Structures -
Redtree Properties’ Activities Raise Concerns - Annual RBDA Board
Election - Proposal to Change Membership Expiration Dates
UCSC Lawsuit in Mediation - County to Redo Cemex Quarry Expansion DEIR
- Frans Lanting to Donate Proceeds of photo sale - Nov. 14 Declared
‘RBDA Day’ - CHP Responds to Motorcycle Petition
November/December 2007
The
RBDA Turns 50! Memories, Stories, and Observations from Old Friends
About a Remarkable Half Century: Gary A. Patton, Mardi Wormhoudt, Neal
Coonerty, Marilyn Hummel, Paul Hostetter, Bruce Bratton, Nancy
Andreasen - Cemex Quarry Expansion DEIR Challenged - Booms Remain
a Mystery - UCSC Expansion Suit Goes to Mediation - No Apple Moth
Spraying - Board Nominations At Nov. 14 General Meeting - Absentee
Ballots - Roadside Weed Control Proposal Not Selected
September/October 2007 Hope
Springs Eternal for Cemex Quarry Expansion - Judge Throws Cold Water on
UCSC Expansion - Things That Go Boom in the Morning - North Coast off
the List for Zero Waste EcoPark Development - RBDA Participating in
Roadside Weed Control - Petition To Enforce Motorcycle Noise And
Traffic Laws - Board Nominations At November General Meeting
July/August 2007 BLM
Inching Closer to Coast Dairies Takeover - UCSC Expansion EIR Lawsuits
Head for Superior Court Showdown - Cemex Quarry Addition EIR, Air
Studies Still on Hold - Winery Events Center Not Yet Toast - First
Approval for TPZ Parcel Size Increase - No Official Word on Proposed
Bonny Doon Fire District - Celebrate Bonny Doon - This is the 50th year
of the RBDA
May/June
2007 State
of the County: Neal Coonerty, 3rd District Supervisor - LAFCO Studies
Fire Protection Issues - UCSC Wins in Superior Court, Loses in the
Court of Public Opinion - Changes Proposed for TPZ Zoning - Water Still
Flowing Despite Drought - Fire Team Unpancake Breakfast Sunday, May 6 -
Do You Have A Piece Of RBDA Or Bonny Doon History?
March/April
2007 County
Weighs in With Concerns on Fire District - An Evening of Birds - UCSC
Lawsuits: One Ends, Another Begins - RBDA Board Election Results -
Cemex Blows Off Air Pollution Risk Assessment Deadline - Membership
Approves Dues Increase - RBDA Gets Ready to Celebrate 50th Anniversary
January/February
2007 Harems
on the Beach: The Amazing Life of Elephant Seals – UCSC Expansion Plans
Go Ahead Despite Lawsuits - Nudists sold separately (Red, White and
Blue Beach) – Bonny Doon’s First West Nile Virus Case – RBDA Board
Elections - LAFCO Studying Proposed Fire Protection District - RBDA
Chair on the Radio
November/December
2006 Our Newest
State Park: Coast Dairies Oceanside – State Parks Gives Peek
at Future Plans For Coast Dairies – Santa Cruz to UC: See You in Court
– Bonny Doon Fire Protection District: the Process – Wanted: New
Environmentally-Minded Board Members – Cemex Moving Ahead on Quarry
Expansion – Watershed Committee Proposes Education Project with Bonny
Doon School – Dwindling Coffers: Proposal to Raise Membership Dues
September/October
2006 Creating
a Bonny Doon Fire Protection District - State Parks Takes Over
Oceanside Coast Dairies Lands - Campaign Begins in Support of UCSC
Growth Curbing Measures – Continued Search for Phone Service Backup
Solutions – Temporary Win for Smith Grade storm-damaged roads –
Watershed Committee walk along the Laguna Creek – Eco Preserve Work
Winds Down
July/August
2006 Phone
Line Upgrades Downgrade Service - Slipsliding Away (road repairs) -
Eco Reserve Fire Danger Brushed
Off - Lockheed Says No to Water Testing - Sign Up for Better
Emergency Protection -
Supreme Court Chops Down Big Creek Suit - New Watershed Concerns and
Next Tour - UCSC's Troubles
Accelerate - Mail Service: How Low Can We Go?
May/June
2006 1
Win, 1 Loss in UCSC Expansion Fight - Coalition for Limiting University
Expansion (CLUE)
on Ranch View
Terrace housing project and Terrace Point - Who Will Succeed Mardi
Wormhoudt - and
Will Our Phones
Go Dead? - County Supervisor Candidates’ Forum - Dr. Betty Saxon of
SBC/AT&T’s -
Cemex, Coast
Dairies Talking Land Swap - Big Creek vs. Santa Cruz Hits Supreme Court
-
Whoops! UCSC
Chopped CDF Out of Timberland Conversion Review - Up the Creek, and
Loving It -
Watershed
Preservation Whet Your Interest? - Better Fire Protection and Emergency
Medical service -
Eshoo
Asked to again help with Mail Woes
March/April
2006 The State of the County 2006 -
Mardi
Wormhoudt - Insurers Reviewing Home
Policies in Potential
Fire Areas - UCSC
Sued Over Clean Water Act Violations - CLUE - Watershed
Association Formed,
Laguna Creek Walk Scheduled - Hot
News About Eco Reserve Fire Fuel Reduction -
Credit Where It’s Due - New
RBDA Officers
January/February
2006 The History & Beauty of Bonny
Doon
Watersheds - UCSC's Growth Plan
EIR A Joke, But Expansion Is Not - Annual RBDA Board Election -
North Coast Trail
on Track -
Green Waste
Going to Waste? - BLM Proposes Dousing
Wilderness Areas with Herbicides
November
- December 2005
The Energy Efficient Home - The City Coming to Our Hill: UCSC
Expansion
EIR
Released
- Cemex Continues Quarry Expansion Efforts - Fire Safety in the
Ecological
Reserve - Lockheed Defuses
Some
Environmental Concerns - The Magic of Bonny Doon. . .It Didn't
Just Happen Naturally - Home Insurers the
Teeth
Behind New Fire Safety Law - RBDA Board Nominations
September
- October 2005
New Fire Clearance Code May Affect You - Mail Relief -
Mosquito
Abatement
Program Comes
to Bonny Doon - What are CSAs and Who's Running the Show? -
City
Water Dept: Fish Don't Need Water - Prolonging Landfill
Life - Unlocking Lockheed -
Winery Site for Sale -
RMC Timber Harvest
September-October
2005 New State Fire Clearance Codes -
Mail
Relief - Mosquito Abatement
Program
Comes to Bonny Doon - What are CSAs and Who’s
Running the Show? - City Water Dept:
Fish Don’t
Need Water - Prolonging Landfill Life - Unlocking Lockheed - Winery Site for Sale -
RMC Timber
Harvest
May-June
2005 UCSC’s Long Range Development Plan:
Bringing
the City to Bonny Doon - Potential
Sandhills Habitat
Conservation Areas in Bonny Doon -
Got Mail? - City’s Water Line Relocation
EIR
Now Available - CYA
Camp Conversion - Coastal Cell Phone
Antennae "Up" For Approval
- Roadside Spraying
March-April
2005 Conversion of Ben Lomond CYA camp to
adult
prison facility - risks for Bonny Doon? -
UCSC’s
Long Range Development Program: the Battle Begins -
Berkeley Sues Cal. Regents Over
University
Expansion - USPS Truck Sighting on Empire Grade
- RBDA Board Election Results
January-February
2005 Topics for Annual Meeting - RBDA
Board
Election - State of the County 2005 -
"Save
the Mail" Committee? - A Short-Range Defeat for UCSC’s Long
Range Development Plan -
Landfill
Alternatives - TM Group
Converging on a Plan
November-December
2004 Building Alternative Waste
Strategies
- Talking Trash: Dumping the
Thayer Road Dump
Site - Planning Commission: Felton
Quarry a Nuisance - Impacts of UCSC Long Range
Development Plan
- Coast
Dairies Title Transfer Stalled - Coho Update:
Return of
the Natives! -
RMC Sold to
Cement Manufacturing Giant - TM Group
Continues Research - RBDA Board Nominations
-
CCALM Group
Scores Victory
September/October
2004 Will County Be Dumping on Bonny Doon? No -
read
the update -
What’s in a
Name? Origins of Bonny Doon - Ye flowery
banks
o’bonie Doon - The PG&E Chainsaw
Massacre: the
Sequel - Big (monster
house) - Updates: RMC Quarry Expansion
- Proposed Water
Pipeline - TM
Retreat Center
July/August
2004 - Transcendental
Meditation
Program current proposal - Santa Cruz Gets Serious
about New BD Pipelines - Roundup Time
in Bonny Doon? - Thank you to our Patrons, Bill and Jill Harmon
May/June
2004
Meditation Retreat
Center Proposed
- County Proposed Fire Code Changes Come with Their Own Firestorm -
West
Side
Big
Boxes? -
Quarry
"Quakes" - Coast Dairies Update: Land Transfer Must Meet Local
Regulations
- APAC Rejects
Sand Hill Bluff House
March/April
2004
(Wild) Life
on the Edge - Waldorf
School Expansion Approved - Court Cuts Down County Timber Zoning Law -
RMC Loses Appeal
on EIR - North Coast Farm Visitor’s
Center to Open May 1 - New Board Members -
Looking For A Few Good
Astronomers
January/February
2004
Unlocking the Lockheed
Files
- Third Landowner Proposed for Coast Dairies - RBDA Executive Board
Election
-
Homeseller's Signs:
Necessity
and Eyesore - RBDA Board Meeting
November/December
2003
Coast Dairies Visionary To Speak At
November RBDA Meeting - BLM Collects Comments - RBDA Road
Committee Sends
Storm Runoff Report to County - Adopt A Culvert
- Lockheed: Do Good Defenses
Make Good Neighbors? - RMC
in a Scrape in
Ecological Reserve - Nominations Due At
November 12
Meeting
- A Hunter’s Shot Shocks Resident (whoa!)
<>September/October
2003
Learning
From Maps - Coast Dairies
Transfer Delayed: Agriculture, Access Uncertain - Homer Strikes Out:
Big
Creek Goes to Bat for RMC - RMC Plans More
Logging - RMC
Forms Davenport Citizen’s Committee -
Our Gratitude Is Off The Charts
<>
July/August
2003
Coast Dairies: New Property Owners
Moving Into Bonny Doon (with map - Congressmembers Support
Coast Dairies
Deed Restrictions - New Information Coming Down
the Pipeline
- Free Pipe Organ Concert
at Boomeria - No RBDA
Meeting in July - Have
a Great Summer!
May/June
2003
Moon Rocks Surrounded by a Potential
Moonscape - San Vicente Creek Flow Threatened - Waldorf,
Neighbors, RBDA
Get Beyond Their Salad Days - RMC: Resource
Management
for Consumption -
Deliver Comments
Directly to Postal Execs - Water and
Property Rights, Take 1 - Water and
Property
Rights, Take 2: County Environmental Health Dept. Adopts New Well
Policy
- Monster
Home Has First Hearing - Coast Dairies Property
Transfer Approaching - Bush Bending the Rules
March/April
2003
Sipping The Sea: Desalination - Supes
Blur the Urban/Rural Line, Raise Land Use Questions - Uncle Sam
Rides Into
Bonny Doon - Ag Pond Becomes Fish Nursery -
Bonny
Doon Ecological Reserve Update -
Reaching Higher for
Better Mail Service
January/February
2003
The State of The County
2003
- Supervisor Mardi Wormhoudt - North Coast Farmers - Scrooged by Coast
Dairies
Stormy Times for Bonny
Doon
and County Budgets - So Long, But Not Good-bye - RBDA Board Nominees’
Statements
Red-Tagged Horse
Facility Approved
- Eco Reserve Planning Proceeds - Supremes Take on 2nd Unit Suit
November/December
2002
The Artists of Bonny
Doon -
Planning Head Plans for Improvements - Agenda for General Meeting -
Summary
of
Actions of RBDA
Executive Board
- Permit Hearing for Vigne Farms Boarding Stable - North Coast Water
Safe
for Now - RMC Digs in on
EIR
- Ecological Reserve Plan Presented - RBDA Board Election
September/October
2002
Red Tape and Red Tags:
Improving
the Planning and Permit Process - Commercial Stable Headed for Permit
Hearing
-
New Rules for Board
Elections
- Second Unit Suit Falters Again - RMC Plant Expansion - New
Deputy
for Bonny Doon
July/August
2002
Fish and Farmers on the North
Coast - Coast Dairies Management Plan Delayed - Davenport Water
Affected
by RMC - New Bylaws Approved - City’s Leaky
Pipe May Be Bonny Doon’s Problem - Felton’s
Water Now Comes Catch - RMC Timber Harvest
Approved - Software Alliance Bites Goat Pharm Company -
Dates Set for RBDA
Board Meetings
May/June
2002
Special Meeting to
Revise RBDA
Bylaws - Pipelines: Santa Cruz City Water & You - BLM In Your
Backyard -
Stable Project EIR
Raises Questions
- RMC Gassing Up Its Chainsaws - Where’s Waldorf? It’s Here. But Should
it Be?
March/April
2002
Two Birds’
Dangerous
Tales - Coast Dairies Planning Process Moves Ahead - More Help
for
Horse Owners -
Waldorf: The Right School in
the Wrong Place? - Pig Petitions Online - Quarry Expansion EIR
Exemption
Denied - No Quorum at
Meeting
January/February
2002
County
Supervisors’
Candidates Night - Bylaws Changes Set for Vote - Good Horsekeeping -
Coast
Dairies
Planning Process Continues -
RMC Quarry Expansion
Blasted - Money in the Pipeline - RBDA Board Elections -
Pig Busters -
Mailboxes in Bonny Doon?
November/December
2001
Rooting out
wild
pigs - Overview of proposed new bylaws - Official help for two local
creeks
- Sudden oak
death syndrome fungus threatens area ecosystems
- Maintaining your road frontage - Interested in
serving on the RBDA Board?
- Update your email
address - County landfill at Dimeo Lane now accepting
household hazardous
wastes on Saturdays
September/October
2001
Sudden oak
death syndrome
- Roads committee sets goals - Felton empire pavement repair - The
Bonny
Doon Planning District (with
map) RBDA standing rules
- Verifying membership - Bylaws review
continues - Feed your
need
for (modem) speed - County's loans for farmworker
housing
rehabilitation
and improvements at
the coast
July/August
2001
Coast Dairies: what
is, what could be - How the postal service works, and doesn't - Pinus
cellularis:
endangered species on
the coast - County road repairs
- Issues appropriate to the RBDA -
Committee to study
bylaws created -
Verifying membership qualifications
May/June
2001
The Post & The Coast, the
Post Office’s Julia Simon; Board Incumbents Reelected; RBDA
Members’ Eligibility
Questioned; You Had Questions, We’ll Try
to Find Answers; New Board
Elects Officers,
Replaces Fred Bryck; Limits
Continued on Equestrian Center Operations;
The Cell Sell; Spread
Community News?; Board Considering Committees on
Bylaws, Roads;
Mending a Fence;
It’s Sir Frans
Now
March/April
2001
All about Board
elections
and RBDA philosophy
January/February
2001
All about our mail
delivery
- Crystal Vision: Roy Rydell, 1915-2000 - Goat Pharm Still Not Cleaned
Up
Water, Water, But
Not
Everywhere - Want Bonny Doon News? Tune to the RBDA Web Site - Danger
at
Cave
Gulch - RBDA Push
Leads
to Emergency Road Repairs - The Return of the Unfriendly Skies
(helicopter
logging in
Bonny Doon) -
Coastal
Commission Says No to Sprouting Growth - The RBDA needs you—how about
running
for our
executive board ?
November/December
2000: The whole issue in
one
simple page
Redwood Meadows
Ranch
Winery hearing - Thirsty for Water Knowledge? - Deputy Stefan Fish
-
Well Metering
Ordinance
- SCBI Drops Goat Pharm Master Plan - County’s 7-Year Road Repair Plan
-
Ben Harmon Elected
to
RBDA Board
September/October
2000: The whole issue in one simple page
Potholes, Patching
&
Paving (Repairing the Roads of Bonny Doon) - Goat Town Now Ghost Town -
Planning
Commission Puts
Hitch
in Winery’s Wedding Plans - Keeley Bill Calls for Clearcutting Hiatus -
The Fungus
Among Us - The
Foul Smell
of Excess (asphalt production at the Felton Quarry) - What You Want?
July/August
2000: The whole issue in one simple page
Coastal Commission
Confronts
County Supervisors on Biotech Goat Pharm - Redwood Meadows Winery
Hearing
Set - New
Deputy
Sheriff a Natural for Bonny Doon - Iron Monsters Threaten Motorists in
Cave Gulch -
Distant Rumble of
Things
to Come? - Deputy Rescues the Eco Reserves
May/June
2000: The whole issue in one simple page
Solar Energy In Your
Home -
Moon Rocks Protection Only a Small Step - Tickets Penned for Empire
Grade
Parkers - Plover Lovers
Wanted
- Here Comes the Sheriff - Redwood Meadows Winery Hearing in June?
-
Goat Pharm Gets Deadline
to
Get Its Manure Together - Court Belts 2nd Unit Suit - Friends of
Bonny
Doon? - RBDA
Representatives
to Advisory Groups
March/April
2000: The whole issue in one simple page
Bonny Doon Vineyards—A
Second
House on Every Plot? - What Is a Good Lumbering Operation? -
Motorcyclists Tearing Up
Gray
Whale - SCBI’s Foul ‘Soup’ on Supes’ Agenda - More "Oops" from
PG&E
-
Wylie Joins RBDA Board -
UCSC’s
Parking Problems Are Ours, Too - Help with Quarry Petition Data Input
January/February
2000: The whole issue in one simple page
Mushroom Cuisine with
William
Rubel——PG&E tree cutting, more—SCBI biomedical goat ranch
—Cunningham winery
proposal—RMC Lonestar
update—Board of Forestry timber harvest updates
November/December
1999: The whole issue in one simple page
Disaster
preparedness—Coast
Dairies management planning process—PG&E tree cutting—Felton
quarry—SCBI
matters—Board of
Forestry and local timber harvest updates
September/October
1999: The whole issue in one simple page
Environmental
safety—Coast Dairies
management planning process—PG&E tree cutting—Sheriffs
in Bonny Doon—Felton
quarry—Twin
Gates—Board of Forestry update
July/August
1999: The whole issue in one simple page
Sheriff on the North
Coast?—PG&E
tree cutting policy—Second Unit Ordinance—Cunningham
development position—coastal
septic
tanks bill AB 885—SOAL update—Davenport cement plant noise,
again—Beames back on the Board
May/June
1999: The whole issue in one simple page
Logging Reform:
Necessary or
Not?—Waldorf School Expansion—Logging Bills: Assemblyman Fred
Keeley's AB717 and AB748
—Beat
Back the Broom, by Grey Hayes, New Wave of mail theft—No
More Mystery Sound?—Gray
Whale
Advisory Committee—Graniterock’s frogs—Felton Quarry wants
to drop the 20-night a
year
restriction on hours of operation
March/April
1999: The whole issue in one simple page
Karen McNally on
earthquakes,
RMC/Pacific Materials, Logging update, Water Well
survey, new board
members,
and more.
January/
February 1999: The whole issue in one
simple
page
CDL use plan report,
SCBI and
the problem with goats, RMC name change & update,
logging rules, Coast
Dairies,
board elections, and more.
November/December
1998: The whole issue in one simple page
Grapes and goats,
quarries,
logging rules, Coast Dairies transfer, petitions, and more.
September/October
1998: The whole issue in one simple page
RMC quarry, Santa
Cruz Biotechnology,
Highlander sponsorships, the Buzz, C.A.M.P.
report, remembering
Ken Norris
and Dave Williams, and more.
July/August
1998: The whole issue in one
simple page
RMC quarry, logging, Santa
Cruz
Biotechnology, website and 2040 Task Force, tire burning,
quarry noise,
executive
board changes
May/June
1998: The whole issue in one
simple page
Water resources,
logging, RMC
quarry noise, Santa Cruz Biotechnology, website and 2040
Task Force, tire burning,
quarry noise,
bed and breakfast, remembering Dean McHenry and
Jane McConnell
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