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Linda Martin first person to hold position in decades.

Today is National Thank a Mail Carrier Day. It was established by Benjamin Franklin who was the first Postmaster General in America. Here are a couple facts about the day, according to National Day Calendar: In 1775, the Second Continental Congress established the Constitutional Post–the...

Tom Broz was named the 2023 Farmer of Year by the Santa Cruz County Farm Bureau June 22 at the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds. In its 106th annual meeting, the Farm Bureau welcomed dozens of farmers, agricultural workers and others to the open-air event. Broz and...

A Watsonville man who last year arranged a meeting for sex with someone he believed was a 14-year-old girl was sentenced Thursday to two years of probation and a 120-day suspended jail sentence. Valentin Rodriguez, 63, must also register for life as a sex offender. Rodriguez,...

Two suspects were detained Tuesday in Watsonville on suspicion of firing off a string of shots from a gun into a car. Watsonville Police said the incident unfolded at the corner of Bridge and Secoya streets in the Vista Montaña housing complex around 2:30pm. Multiple witnesses...

A construction worker of O'Grady Paving chisels loose a section of asphalt road surface on Breve Avenue as part of a major road improvement project around La Selva Beach.

Aptos muralist and fine artist Ann Elizabeth Thiermann will feature a solo art exhibit of 38 original pastels and acrylic works at the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History starting today through Jan. 6.

Community activists, city officials and members of law enforcement are expected to speak to the crowd gathered at the City Plaza on Friday around 7 p.m. and a silent candle light vigil will follow.

WATSONVILLE—The Pajaro Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees on Wednesday unanimously approved nine new courses at five high schools that will bolster the district’s newly retooled Career Technical Education program. The new courses were created as extensions of the existing ones, with the penultimate...

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