Linking students through their good deeds
The students at Mintie White Elementary School spent the past two weeks performing acts of kindness for their friends and family. They then wrote each of these acts upon a strip of paper, which became the link in a chain in their classrooms.
Nearly 50 children receive free dental care
Dientes Community Dental Care celebrated Give Kids A Smile Day on Feb. 9 by partnering with six volunteer hygienists from the Monterey Bay Dental Hygienists’ Association to provide 48 uninsured children with free dental care.
Art, stitch by stitch: PV Quilt Show returns to fairgrounds
The annual Pajaro Valley Quilt Show returns to the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds Feb. 23 and 24, showcasing more than 300 quilts as well as clothing, purses, dolls, pincushions and more.
County launches intervention team
The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday heard a report on a new program created to help some of the county’s most recalcitrant criminals.
Bolstering safety: With sales tax nearing its end, city officials eye renewal
With Watsonville's Measure G ending in 2021, so could the roughly $4 million that comes with it annually.
Man killed by falling tree on Hwy. 17, 10 vehicles involved
One man was killed on Highway 17 Thursday when a falling tree struck his vehicle, California Highway Patrol officer Sam Courtney said.
Feds raid Santa Cruz residence
Agents from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security conducted a raid on a Santa Cruz residence early Friday morning as part of an “ongoing criminal investigation,” DHS spokesman Richard Rocha said.
Report of possible gun puts school on lockdown
Watsonville Police shut down Blackburn Street Friday after they got a call about a man with a gun.
A community united: cleanup day draws hundreds
Hundreds of people gathered Saturday morning on beaches, in neighborhoods and along riverways to participate in the second-annual Pitch In All Santa Cruz Cleanup...
