PHOTO: Remembering the Begonia Festival
Volunteer Willard Schwartz (left) gets help from Matt Seuss (top) and Laurie Hill in volunteering their help to hang potted begonias around Capitola Monday to honor the Capitola Begonia Festival that ended in 2017 after 65 years.
Pandemic hits agriculture, hospitality industries hardest
SANTA CRUZ COUNTY—The number of unemployed people in Santa Cruz County has nearly doubled since the Covid-19 crisis began in March 2020, from 4.8 percent in 2019 to 8.5 percent last year.
That amounts to 16,900 fewer jobs than there were a year ago, said...
PHOTO: Dahlia Show returns
The public enjoys viewing hundreds of blooms at the annual Dahlia Show in downtown Santa Cruz Saturday put on by the Monterey Bay Dahlia Society.
A dance around the world
Alianza Charter School students recently took a trip around the world, all without leaving their multi-purpose room.
Man dies in Pajaro crash
A man died in a multiple vehicle crash just outside of Pajaro Thursday evening.
WPD: Man arranged meeting for sex with teen
A Watsonville man was arrested Thursday after he allegedly set up a meeting for a sexual encounter with a minor.
KSQD celebrates three years on the air
SANTA CRUZ—For years, KUSP was Santa Cruz’s non-university-affliated public radio station, offering local news and extensive music and talk programming, and acting as a regional affiliate for National Public Radio.
The station went dark in 2016, but it wasn’t long before a group of citizens...
COVID-19 victim was in early 50s, fighting diabetes, family says
WATSONVILLE—The man who died at Watsonville Community Hospital on March 20 after testing positive for COVID-19 was fighting diabetes, his family said in a Facebook post over the weekend.
The man in his early 50s was believed to be a resident of Las Lomas, a...
Second Harvest to provide holiday food distribution Wednesday
SANTA CRUZ COUNTY—On Wednesday Second Harvest Food Bank will host its weekly community drive-thru food distribution at the County Fairgrounds 2601 East Lake Ave., from 9am–1pm.
“This is a departure from our normal Friday distribution so that individuals and families in our community have access...
Pajaro’s Casa de la Cultura producing face masks for community
PAJARO—Joining a worldwide effort to stave off the spread of COVID-19, Sister Rosa Dolores and a team of six volunteers have started a production line of masks at Casa de la Cultura in Pajaro.
The group has made more than 100 masks and is working...
Watsonville nurses rally against ICU closure
Several dozen Watsonville Community Hospital nurses and staff warned Wednesday that closing the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit—an idea they said officials have floated amid...
