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A cool, foggy morning saw a pop of color Monday as three large murals were hoisted up onto the sides of Watsonville City Hall.

Roughly 50 people gathered in the cafeteria at Landmark Elementary School Monday night for a forum featuring four candidates running for seats on the Pajaro Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees for the Nov. 5 election. Jessica Carrasco, who is running against incumbent Adam...

The Pajaro Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees on Wednesday unanimously approved salary increases for teachers and management, capping off months of negotiations and tense public meetings in which principals and other upper-level employees spent hours justifying their positions. The trustees also approved identical...

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SANTA CRUZ COUNTY—The Watsonville Public Library, along with Hospice Santa Cruz County (HSCC), will be hosting a virtual book discussion on Zoom on Nov. 5 at 5:30pm. The event will be centered around author Katy Butler’s “The Art of Dying Well,” a nonfiction book published...

APTOS—Cardboard is a material that nearly everyone has at their disposal. Often used in packaging and shipping, it is usually broken down to recycle or saved to reuse. But cardboard can also be full of possibilities for artists. This is apparent at “Extraordinary Ordinary,” Cabrillo...

Just beyond the veneer of traffic din and mundane get-your-coffee-and-go workaday world lies a vast network of trails, which snake through Watsonville’s slough system. Discovering them takes only a brief walk from about two-dozen entrances scattered throughout the city. But until I took a half-day,...

Give your input on the design for Watsonville’s largest community park and recreational space at an upcoming meeting.  The city of Watsonville is working to design various elements of Ramsay Park, a project that has been underway since 2019. The city was awarded $7 million...

The Santa Cruz County Anti-Crime Team (SCCACT) over the last few days arrested five men who they say are affiliated with gangs, seizing nearly a half-dozen weapons as well as several drugs the arrestees were planning to sell. The most recent arrest occurred following a...