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About Town, Week of July 15

WATSONVILLE—Watsonville leaders past and present showered longtime Watsonville City Clerk Beatriz Vasquez Flores with praise at Tuesday night’s Watsonville City Council meeting, honoring the outgoing official for her 42 years of service to the municipality. Along with kind words from active city council members and...

Joe Price, who works as a Housing Navigator with Housing Matters, said that when he met Betty Scott, he was impressed with her willingness to help and offer a prayer for anyone who came in to the homeless shelter in which she worked. “If it...

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...

WATSONVILLE—With the whir of a jigsaw in the background, the buzz of an electric kitchen mixer and the tapping of a hammer filling the air, Pajaro Valley’s young people were busy last week completing their projects at the Environmental Science Workshop on 2nd Street. The...

SALINAS—Two inmates escaped from the Monterey County Adult Detention Facility early Saturday. The Monterey County Sheriff’s Office said 21-year-old Santos Samuel Fonseca and 20-year-old Jonathan Salazar were both awaiting trial on unrelated murder charges along with numerous other felony charges. The MCSO said Sunday it was...

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed legislation that will expedite the reconstruction of the Pajaro River Levee, moving construction start and completion time years earlier than anticipated. Assembly Bill 876 fast-tracks the work by exempting the project from certain local environmental laws and regulations under...