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The Pajaro Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees on Wednesday unanimously approved salary increases for teachers and management, capping off months of negotiations and tense public meetings in which principals and other upper-level employees spent hours justifying their positions. The trustees also approved identical...

Dozens of people came to Community Bridges’ downtown location Sunday, where they received a free eye exam  and, if needed, a pair of prescription glasses. This included an onsite mobile RV that made the glasses onsite. The exams—which organizers estimate at $400-$500—came thanks to VSP Vision,...

In 2014 Elizabeth Hoover, associate professor in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at UC Berkeley, set out on a road trip across the U.S. Hoover covered 20,000 miles over four months, visiting 29 different Indigenous communities and asking everyone she met one question: How do...

WATSONVILLE—Watsonville Presbyterian minister Robby Olson came to Watsonville with his wife a decade ago and has since built his life and career out of building a coterie of friends and cultivating the community he has grown to love. He also has an affinity for brewing...

The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) recently notified Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency that its Basin Management Plan (BMP) was approved and considered functionally equivalent to a Groundwater Sustainability Plan (GSP).

WATSONVILLE—Teams of volunteers are working to set the stage for the Santa Cruz County Fair, which returns from a one-year hiatus later this month. From flower plantings to applying fresh coats of paint, volunteers and staff are readying the fairgrounds for a full schedule of...

Thanks to a cast of workers and volunteers at Watsonville’s Digital NEST, more than 200 local high school and college students were able to get a close brush with some of the giants in the tech industry in the first-ever NEST Flight.

WATSONVILLE—Congressman Jimmy Panetta recently announced that eight projects across California’s 20th district totaling $5.9 million have been included in the $1.5 trillion omnibus bill signed by President Joe Biden Tuesday. The funding includes $1 million for the Watsonville Lee Road Trail, a project headed up...

WATSONVILLE—Some 80 people gathered in the Watsonville Civic Plaza Monday evening to welcome in Jorge Zamora as Watsonville Police Department’s new chief. A homegrown officer who started with the department as a cadet at the age of 15, Zamora said in a speech before being...