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"Try This" is a weekly column that celebrates local businesses — especially eateries, watering holes, coffee shops and the like.
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Tony Nuñez
FOOD: Cassidy’s Pizza: Turkey Sandwich
I’m a big believer in the beauty of simplicity. An object, idea or food dish can be simple and still...
Watsonville Cyclery owner pushes public safety, involvement
WATSONVILLE—When Bike Santa Cruz County approached South County officials to start up a monthly community bike ride, Watsonville Cyclery owner Julian “Jules” Mandujano was eager to get involved.
Every last Friday of the month, Mandujano offers up his business at 25 East 5th St. as...
Watsonville’s slough trail system a county gem
Just beyond the veneer of traffic din and mundane get-your-coffee-and-go workaday world lies a vast network of trails, which snake through Watsonville’s slough system. Discovering them takes only a brief walk from about two-dozen entrances scattered throughout the city.
But until I took a half-day,...
Local author to discuss new novel at Kelly’s Books
WATSONVILLE—When author Edward R. Weingold was only 8 years old, he was scanning through his parents’ world atlas when he came across a life-changing photograph.
The graphic image showed a pile of corpses—victims of the Buchenwald concentration camp in Nazi Germany.
Weingold said he remembers his...
Digital NEST founder wins prestigious statewide award
WATSONVILLE—Digital NEST Founder and Executive Director Jacob Martinez on Wednesday was named a 2020 recipient of the prestigious James Irvine Foundation Leadership Award.
Since 1937, the James Irvine Foundation has provided more than $1.87 billion in grants to nonprofit organizations in California. James Irvine, a...
Health Trust hosts blood drive in honor of injured firefighter
WATSONVILLE—A blood drive will be held Friday at the Pajaro Valley Health Trust in honor of a 35-year veteran of the Watsonville Fire Department, Captain Danny Lucas.
On Nov. 20 Lucas was seriously injured in a hunting accident in Montana when a large caliber bullet...
Touching up history
As part of Engineer’s Week, the engineering crew with the City of Watsonville staged their 17th annual egg drop contest Wednesday. People from local groups, offices and schools tested their skills in wrapping an egg in various materials and then hurling it off the...
Main Street business park awaits final council decision
WATSONVILLE—Drive-thrus will be back on the Watsonville City Council’s menu at Tuesday’s meeting.
The council will hear an appeal of a Planning Commission decision from late last year that stopped the development of a proposed business park at Main Street and Auto Center Drive.
Boos Development...
Large Pajaro commercial space back in development
PAJARO—The County of Monterey will hold a public meeting on Thursday at Our Lady of the Assumption Church in Pajaro to gather input on a large proposed commercial development on the northeast outskirts of the small town.
The planned development, known as the Miller Trust...
Two die in fiery Big Sur crash
BIG SUR—Two people died in a fiery crash on the rugged cliffs of Big Sur early Tuesday morning, California Highway Patrol spokeswoman Jessica Madueño said.
Around 4:40 a.m. the CHP responded to a vegetation fire off Highway 1 near Lucia. Big Sur Fire confirmed the...
Community comes together to repaint Black Lives Matter mural
More than 40 volunteers spent hours Saturday refreshing the massive Black Lives Matter street mural that is sprawled along Center Street in front of...
