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The City of Watsonville has released its General Plan 2050, a sweeping update that will guide development, housing, transportation and conservation in the city for the next quarter-century. The plan replaces the city’s 2005 General Plan and establishes policies governing Watsonville’s growth and investment through...

The man running for the Area 5 seat on the Pajaro Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees has been arrested on felony charges. Curt Wilcox faces felony charges of perjury, improper voter registration and filing a false declaration of candidacy, according to court records. The...

Brett Miller, a Watsonville man with a 40-year history of wild crimes, is going back to prison for two years after 15 years of freedom. Miller, 62, was sentenced on Wednesday by Santa Cruz County Superior Court Judge Nancy de la Peña. Miller had earlier...

An 81-year-old woman suffered major injuries early Monday after she was struck by an SUV in a hit-and-run crash that led to an arrest two days later of a 78-year-old woman. The victim was walking across Cynthia Drive at Tuttle Avenue around 6:30am in the...

After a quarter-century with the Pajaro Valley-based Wild Farm Alliance, Executive Director Jo Ann Baumgartner has recently retired. She has been with the organization for more than 25 years where she started out working on a conventional research farm in the 1980s.  After owning an organic...

Standing at the new Felton pump track a few weeks ago, Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors Chair Monica Martinez watched children race around a facility that she said had taken years of planning, public meetings and collaboration to build. The children, she said, knew...

The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors, Santa Cruz County Chamber of Commerce and Health Improvement Partnership of Santa Cruz County join Santa Cruz Community Health in opposing Proposition 44. If passed, Prop. 44 would impose penalties on nonprofit Federally Qualified Health Centers that spend...

Near the terminus of the new bike path along South Green Valley Road—at the entrance to Pinto Lake County Park—lies a construction site that, by the end of the year, will be Watsonville’s second skatepark. It will also be the only one of its kind...

Watsonville High School’s homecoming parade makes its way along Main Street in downtown Watsonville Wednesday. The WHS Wildcatz were set to take on St. Francis High School on their home turf on Friday.

Though Jody Chiang just started as a dentist at Dientes in July, her journey with the organization began years before when she sat in the same chair as a child—often. Growing up, Chiang dealt with her fair share of dental problems including cavities and tooth...