Local holiday sales abound
This holiday season, the community is invited to support the region’s business owners and artists.
The Watsonville Holiday Factory Sale is scheduled for Dec 6.
For the first time, the event will be co-hosted by El Pájaro Community Development Corporation and the Pajaro Valley Chamber of...
City seeking input on City Plaza art project
The City of Watsonville and Community Arts and Empowerment are seeking community input on the art that will soon decorate the new stage skirt at the City Plaza.
Two artists—and one team of artists—have been selected as semifinalists to design an image.
The art will be...
Holiday lights show opens at fairgrounds
For the past year, volunteers at the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds have been working to build up the annual holiday lights show.
Now in its fifth year, the show—now called Sparky’s Holiday Lights—draws people from around the county to drive through the lighted fairgrounds.
It is...
See’s Candies opens pop-up store in Watsonville
The See’s Holiday gift center in Watsonville is located at the Watsonville Square Shopping Center at 1878 Main Street in Watsonville. It opened on Nov. 6 and will close on Dec. 24.
Shoppers can find the company’s peanut brittle, milk, dark and white chocolates, pecan...
Five years a winner
Amesti Elementary School fifth-grader Kevin Bonita on Thursday took home more than a free 18-pound turkey when he won the school’s annual Turkey Trot race.
He also has the distinction of being the first to win the race every year he attended the school.
A young...
Supervisors delay decision on new battery storage facilities ordinance, add new regulations
The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday took the first step in crafting rules governing Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), giving their unanimous approval to a draft ordinance that aims to give a measure of local control to new facilities.
The ordinance before...
An ocean view, pollution included
There was a lot of trash talk Sunday in Santa Cruz. Not gossip. Literal trash.
In the ocean and deep into the food chain.
Close to 400 people gathered at the Rio Theatre on Nov. 9 to hear some of the latest research on the health...
Residents demand more oversight of new BESS facilities
Almost a year after the largest lithium-ion battery storage facility in the world caught fire at Moss Landing, spewing toxic material and forcing the evacuation of 1,200 people, Santa Cruz residents gathered to warn against a proposal to build three more of the facilities...
A tale of two Rubys: Walks to school 65 years apart show societal progress
Sixty five years ago, 6-year-old Ruby Bridges—who is Black—walked to William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans at the onset of her first-grade year through a gauntlet of adults throwing food at her and screaming that she didn’t belong.
On Friday, 10-year-old Bradley Elementary School...
PV girls’ basketball hosts first annual toy drive event on campus
A little more than 100 Pajaro Valley Unified School District students received an early Christmas present at Pajaro Valley High’s first annual toy drive...
