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March 18, 2026

WHS drama offering two well-known plays

Watsonville High School’s drama program is presenting two plays written to illustrate the migrant experience.

UFW mainstay Don Adán Ramirez dies

Adán Ramirez died on Nov. 4 after a car struck him as he crossed Airport Boulevard three days earlier. He was 89.

Men arrested after vandalizing Ramsay Park

Two young men have been booked into the Santa Cruz County Jail for felony vandalism.

Election 2018: Sales tax passes, housing bond headed for defeat

Measure G, a countywide measure to add a half-cent sales tax in unincorporated areas for emergency and city services, has passed with 63.17 percent of votes in favor.

Truck flips, catches fire in Felton

Incident occurred just north of Rincon Fire.

Man fleeing police crashes on motorcycle

Monterey County Sheriff's deputies and California Highway Patrol officers investigated a solo motorcycle crash on San Miguel Canyon Road near Lewis Road in Royal Oaks Sunday night after the driver reportedly fled from police.

Capitola man dies in solo car crash

An 81-year-old man died Monday afternoon after driving his 2016 Chevrolet Spark into a utility pole on Soquel Drive in Santa Cruz.

Series of earthquakes hit San Benito County

Largest measured at 4.1 magnitude.

RTC hires new executive director

Guy Preston has been hired as the Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission’s new executive director, the agency recently announced.

Annual literacy event held at Starlight Elementary

Groups of elementary students, many in their Halloween costumes, gathered in Starlight Elementary School’s quad Wednesday for the annual “Un Libro a La Vez” (“One Book at a Time”) reading event.
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Cesar Chavez makes an appearance at a boycott over agricultural worker’s wages and conditions in Salinas in 1979.

Sexual assault allegations surface against César Chávez

The nation’s oldest farmworker union announced Tuesday that it has canceled all events celebrating labor organizer César Chávez after allegations surfaced that he sexually...