Arts & Culture

Megan Kavanaugh (lower left) of Bio S.I. and Gina Bella Colfer of Wilbur Ellis Organics enjoy lunch along with about 280 other women at Agri-Culture’s 18th Annual Down to Earth Women’s Luncheon Thursday at Driscoll’s Rancho Corralitos. Speeches, an auction and lively conversation filled...

Dozens of people gathered on the upper floor of the Civic Plaza Building in downtown Watsonville Wednesday to celebrate the annual PVUSD student art exhibition. The exhibit, which can be seen throughout the building, features 315 works of art from students ranging from kindergarten–12th grade....

Foreign visitors get a tour of the Garbage Department in Watsonville on Jan. 19, 1957.

These women enjoy an evening with the Grandmother's Club in April of 1957.

These men examine the damage in a plane crash at the Watsonville Airport on Sept. 25, 1954. According to aviation history buff Gary Plomp, the plane is a Grumman TBF-5 Avenger Carrier, which was used in WWII as torpedo bombers and level bombers. TBFs...

Editor's note: This the second part of a two-part series on travel writer Tarmo Hannula's recent trip to Paso Robles. To see part 1, click here. On a recent overnight road trip to Atascadero, after exploring the innards of the Salinas Valley, my wife Sarah...

These women take part in the Mother's March in Watsonville on Jan. 30, 1957. More than 400 women were set to take part in the event to raise money for polio. They raised $4,800 the previous year, and that year were aiming for $5,000.

A countywide celebration of visual and performing arts kicked off April 16 and will run through April 26.  The Ripple Effect Santa Cruz County Arts Festival is the County’s effort to highlight the creative community during California’s Arts, Culture and Creativity Month.  Organizers said the event...

Anyone rolling along Riverside Drive into Watsonville from Highway 1 lately must have noticed the new, healthy welcome mat—20 acres of organic artichokes popping their thistle heads up at the Sadie Ranch. The organic crop is a first for the Pajaro Valley.  The crop, known...

The 1882 Records Building—today called the Octagon Building—is shown in Santa Cruz in 1954. It is now part of the popular Abbott Square at Cooper and Front streets.v(Sam Vestal/Pajaronian file)