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Hundreds get free backpacks
More than 400 area students were given a running start for the upcoming school year when they were presented with free backpacks loaded with...
Talks continue on Battery Energy Storage Systems
About 150 people gathered in Santa Cruz July 17, for a third meeting held over the past few months to send the message that...
Portola Heights fire being investigated as attempted murder
An early-morning fire that broke out at a mobile home in the Portola Heights Mobile Home Park on Freedom Boulevard Tuesday is being investigated...
Three injured in mobile home fire
Three people were injured Tuesday morning when a fire broke out at a mobile home in the Portola Heights Mobile Home park on Freedom...
Reject Georgia Acosta for Watsonville Planning Commission
Editor’s note: This letter was written to the Watsonville City Council.
We are Pajaro Valley for Ethnic Studies and Justice (PVESJ), a local grassroots coalition...
Suspect arrested in Castroville homicide
A 17-year-old male was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of murdering Marcelino Calixto Pastrana behind a Castroville market on June 26.
The Monterey County Sheriff’s Office...
Photo story: Watsonville kicks off Second Saturday Art Tour
Viridiana Lopez (right) heads up a Zumba dance session in Watsonville Plaza Saturday during the soft opening of first-ever Second Saturday Art Tour. Artists...
Valle del Pájaro park opens in South County
Santa Cruz County officials on Friday cut the ribbon on the first new park to open in South County’s unincorporated region in decades.
The 38.5-acre...
Students visit from Croatia
Four high school students from Croatia arrived July 2 in Watsonville from the Student Ambassador Exchange Program of the Slavic American Cultural Organization (SACO).Â
They...
Fairgrounds taps Dori Rose Inda as new CEO
A woman with more than two decades of experience leading nonprofit and community-based organizations has been selected to lead the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds.
Dori...
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College Lake Water Supply Project wraps up
Over 100 people gathered on Holohan Road Friday to celebrate the completion of the Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency’s (PVWMA) new College Lake Water...
