Local News

The fourth annual Watsonville Community Mural Paint Day will take place Monday beginning at 9 a.m. at PVPSA’s 335 East Lake Ave. location.

The Santa Cruz Open Taekwondo Championships was held Saturday for the 28th year running, and this time Watsonville played host.

A program of Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County, the day worker center tasks itself with helping workers find work, and with improving their job skills.

Now a pile of rubble surrounded by a chain-link fence, the businesses that were Val TV Radio VCR Service and Tamara’s Hair Salon at 8 Porter Drive have sat dormant since a fire destroyed them in January 2017.

The Watsonville Film Festival (WFF) returns to present a lineup of screenings by award-winning directors and young local filmmakers, as well as live music and film talks by experts in the industry.

In an era where agriculture meshes with technology — and environmental sustainability is a rule — Cabrillo College has created a major that combines all three.

After recently wrapping up a major housing and retail project downtown, a local developer has plans to build a similar project just a block away.

Robert “Bobby” Salazar, the unofficial mayor of Aptos who served as security guard and maintenance man for Aptos High School for more than four decades, and who was known for his ever-present smile and exhortations for everyone he met to “keep smiling,” died March 17 after a battle with cancer. He was 62.

Soroptimist International of Watsonville presented four local women with Live Your Dream awards at their annual award dinner on March 18 at the California Grill in Watsonville.