PHOTO: Chili for charity
Aldina Real Estate's fourth annual Business Expo Charity Chili Cook-Off Contest was held Saturday.
‘Watsonville Brillante’ continues to take shape
WATSONVILLE—The Watsonville Parks and Recreation Commission further solidified the final look of “Watsonville Brillante” at its Monday night meeting in the City Council Chambers.
The commissioners voted unanimously to approve the next two large vertical images for the 12,500-square-foot mosaic that over the next five...
Aptos flag poles come down
APTOS—Four 160-foot flag poles that once served as radio towers and loomed over the heavily-traveled intersection of State Park Drive at Highway 1 were brought back to Earth Tuesday.
A crew from the Bigge Crane and Rigging Co. used a huge crane to grab onto...
Watsonville police, WHS investigating campus stabbing
Updated Oct. 24 at 10:45am
Four teens are in custody after two fights at Watsonville High School Thursday morning left one 14-year-old student and a school employee injured.
Interim Police Chief David Rodriguez said police responded just after 10am to a report of a stabbing in...
Cabrillo leaders to decide on renaming college
APTOS—On Nov. 14, the Cabrillo College Governing Board will meet to answer a question that has been vexing Santa Cruz County for two years: should the name of its community college be changed?
The effort to possibly change Cabrillo College’s name began in 2020, as...
Storm prompts evacuation orders in Watsonville
SANTA CRUZ COUNTY—The light rain that fell all day Thursday was “just the very, very top-tip of the iceberg” of a storm system expected to dump several inches of rain through Friday, says National Weather Service Meteorologist Brian Garcia.
“We still have a lot to...
‘Vaccine passports’ emerge as the next coronavirus divide
WASHINGTON—Cathay Pacific Airways, convinced that digital proof of coronavirus vaccination will bring about the return of safe international travel, asked its pilots and crew to try out a new mobile app that showed their vaccination status on a recent flight from Hong Kong to...
Students take to the skies with drones
Recent Watsonville High graduate Azucena Sandoval spent much of her education learning the fundamentals of science she will study this fall at Stanford University.
But she rarely got to put those concepts into practical use. That changed in late June when she participated in SkyLab,...
DA declines to charge suspect in Moss Landing double homicide
The Monterey County District Attorney’s Office announced Monday that it will not file charges against an 18-year-old Greenfield man arrested in connection with the...
