Watsonville Police arrest suspected arsonist
WATSONVILLE—Watsonville Police on April 16 arrested a homeless man for allegedly setting two fires.
Elio Ortega, 41, was charged with arson. He was booked into Santa Cruz County Jail in lieu of $25,000 bail, jail records showed.
Ortega was arrested after officers responded to a report...
The local mind behind new PVPSA headquarters
WATSONVILLE—Watsonville native Alex Reynoso has not forgotten his hometown. Nor has the Watsonville High School alumnus (class of 1991) backed away from using his talents to change the face of Watsonville.
A ribbon cutting is in the works for the start of the new year...
UC system admits record number of Latinx students
WATSONVILLE—Watsonville High School graduate Kayla Cabrera will be attending virtual classes at UC Berkeley when the fall semester begins on Oct. 1, where she will double major in legal and ethnic studies for a pre-law track.
Inspired by social justice issues she encountered while growing...
Newcomer Quiroz-Carter to challenge Councilman Gonzalez in District 2
WATSONVILLE—When Vanessa Quiroz-Carter returned home from college after earning her master’s at Cal State East Bay, she saw that Watsonville had undergone some serious changes.
“Which was really exciting,” she said.
But she also noticed a lot of stagnation.
“Which was disappointing,” she added.
If elected into Watsonville...
PHOTO: International Festival draws a crowd
Crowds gathered in downtown Watsonville Sunday for the 18th annual St. Patrick's International Festival.
Watsonville man named ‘hero’ by Diversity Center
WATSONVILLE—A 2017 report from SAGE, the country’s largest advocate for LGBT elders, found that roughly one-third of LGBT older adults live at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty level. Worse, that report also found that many members of that community deal with...
Faith leaders create virtual vigil for Post Acute patients
WATSONVILLE—On Nov. 9, Rae Ann Radford, the new Administrator for Watsonville Post Acute announced that the facility is cleared of the Covid-19 outbreak, not having had another positive case since Oct. 9.
The encouraging news came after a total of 15 Covid-related deaths occurred at...
County unveils “transformative” youth crisis center
For years, Santa Cruz County lacked a youth crisis center, meaning that young people experiencing a mental health crisis were taken to overloaded emergency...
