Mass vaccine clinic hopes to reach Pajaro, Las Lomas residents
PAJARO—A mass vaccination clinic in Pajaro aimed at North Monterey County residents struggling to find the vaccine will go on as planned Friday, thanks to quick work from Dignity Health-Dominican Hospital and organizer Pajaro Valley Prevention and Student Assistance (PVPSA).
PVPSA CEO Erica Padilla-Chavez says...
Applied Motion Products moving to Morgan Hill
By Erik Chalhoub, Special to the Pajaronian
MORGAN HILL—Citing a need for more space and to be closer to its Silicon Valley customers as its business grows, Watsonville-based Applied Motion Products broke ground on its Morgan Hill facility on Aug. 6.
The facility, now under construction...
Longtime political activist Glen Schaller dies
Glen Schaller, whose grassroots work touched nearly every aspect of local progressive politics for the past four decades in both the Central Coast and throughout California, who led campaigns for numerous elected leaders, and who joined the battle for LGBTQ+ equality long before it...
Sheriff’s Office arrests 2, seize drugs, weapons and cash
SANTA CRUZ COUNTY—An Aptos man has been arrested after a Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office Special Enforcement Team (SET) serving a search warrant found more than 12 pounds of heroin, 1 pound of methamphetamine and a loaded handgun in his residence.
The arrest came after...
Second Harvest honors top ‘Hunger Fighters’
SANTA CRUZ—Second Harvest Food Bank Santa Cruz County on Sunday at its annual awards dinner honored citizens that helped make last year’s Holiday Food & Fund Drive its most successful yet.
The dinner, held at Hotel Paradox in Santa Cruz, served as a stage to...
Two stopped in alleged carjacking
Santa Cruz County Sheriff's deputies detain one of two men Wednesday on Freedom Boulevard at Corralitos Road on suspicion of carjacking.
COVID-19 Daily Update: 9 people have been hospitalized in Santa Cruz County
Roughly 17 percent of people who have tested positive for COVID-19 in Santa Cruz County have been hospitalized, according to data released by Santa Cruz County officials on Wednesday.
There were 54 confirmed cases in the county as of late Tuesday. Nine of those county...
PVUSD trustees cut school employee, teacher positions
After the Pajaro Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees late Thursday night made sweeping cuts to 78 classified positions, newly appointed Board President...
