Coroner: Santa Cruz Jail inmate was strangled to death
SANTA CRUZ — The man found dead in his cell Monday at Santa Cruz County Main Jail was strangled, sheriff’s spokeswoman Ashley Keehn announced early Thursday.
German Carrillo, 24, of Watsonville, was in custody on murder charges since April 2013.
Carrillo shared a cell with two other...
Coroner: Former Santa Cruz neurosurgeon severed artery in jail suicide
SANTA CRUZ—The former neurosurgeon accused of molesting multiple children committed suicide by slicing into his femoral artery on his left groin, Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s spokeswoman Ashley Keehn announced Wednesday.
James Kohut, 59, was found dead in his cell early in the morning on Oct....
Kindergarteners visit Watsonville’s Crystal Bay Farm
WATSONVILLE—Thick fog rolled in and blanketed Crystal Bay Farm Wednesday morning, but the fields of the farm were teeming with life.
A group of kindergarteners from Valencia Elementary School in Aptos, along with parents and teacher Karen Richmond, were visiting the organic farm just off...
Glow event lights up Santa Cruz
SANTA CRUZ — The night sky was lit brightly with bolts of flames and electric lights Saturday evening during the annual Glow event at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History.
The festival of fire and light drew a huge crowd to a closed-off...
Pajaronian launches new website
The Pajaronian’s website received a complete overhaul Wednesday.
The Pajaronian, the news leader of the Pajaro Valley since 1868, launched the new, intuitive design to improve and streamline our readers’ digital experience.
The new website can be found at pajaronian.com.
Additionally, the website for our monthly Life...
Open Farm Tours highlights sustainable growers
At Blossom’s Farm in Corralitos, owners Delmar McComb and Carin Fortin are doing things differently.
A “biodynamic” farm, Blossom’s attempts to be self-sustaining—utilizing land, plants and animals to create a single living organism, which is a concept introduced by Rudolf Steinfer in 1924.
“We are trying...
Jail reports second inmate death in a week
SANTA CRUZ—A man was found dead in his cell at Santa Cruz County Main Jail Monday morning, marking the second death at the jail in less than a week.
German Carrillo, 24, was in custody on murder, assault and gang charges, Jail records showed.
Carrillo was...
Pair of quakes roll through Central Coast, Bay Area
HOLLISTER — A 4.8 magnitude earthquake shook the Central Coast this afternoon, just two days shy of the 30th anniversary of the infamous Loma Prieta earthquake of Oct. 17, 1989.
The quake hit at 12:43 p.m. near Tres Pinos and Hollister. Residents from Salinas to King City...
Watsonville’s Filipino community invited to share family history
WATSONVILLE—For many residents, January 1930 represents a dark time in the history of Watsonville.
For five days, hundreds of armed white men took to the city’s streets, targeting and beating Filipino-American farmworkers who they claimed were stealing their jobs and women.
The riots came to a head...
How Farmworkers Outlawed ‘El Cortito’ 50 Years Ago
For decades in the Salinas Valley, the short-handle hoe, known as “El Cortito,” was used for weeding and thinning rows of crops that kept...
