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Six years of Fruition

Crowds were thick over the weekend at Fruition Brewing & Kitchen during their six-year anniversary in the East Lake Village Shopping Center. Fruition has...

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).  They...
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Letters to the editor Sept. 5-11

 Prop. 50 stifles diverse voices California’s Proposition 50, on the November ballot, shamelessly deepens voter disenfranchisement. With 52 congressional districts and voters split at 45.3%...

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