Watsonville man pleads no contest to killing wife in 2020
SANTA CRUZ—A Watsonville man has pleaded no contest to killing his wife two years ago, and faces at least two decades in prison when he is sentenced on Oct. 28.
In making the plea to one count of second-degree murder and two counts of child...
KION News shutters after 56 years
KION News abruptly shut down its news department Tuesday after 56 years on the air, an employee told The Pajaronian.
According to Managing Editor & Anchor Jeanette Bent, the news team had just wrapped up their morning editorial meeting in their Salinas office when corporate...
Tire thieves strike neighborhoods
Residents of the Martinelli Street area of Watsonville have reported a rash of tire thefts over the past few weeks.
Santa Cruz County reports two new Covid-19 deaths
SANTA CRUZ COUNTY—Santa Cruz County health officials announced Friday that two more county residents have died of Covid-19 complications, bringing the local death toll to eight.
One was a man in his early 60s and the other was a woman in her late 90s. Both...
PV Water calls for bids to construct College Lake project
WATSONVILLE—The Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency Board of Directors authorized staff to advertise for bids to construct the College Lake Integrated Resources Management Project.
PVWMA officials say the project will provide much-needed water to the critically overdrafted basin of the Pajaro Valley by supplying 1,800...
County’s homeless population drops to lowest numbers since count began, PIT count shows
The most recent PIT count shows that the numbers of Santa Cruz County residents experiencing homelessness dropped 20% from those of last year to the lowest number in the count’s history.
Volunteers on Jan. 30 counted 1,473 homeless people in the annual Point in Time...
Letters to the Editor Dec. 31-Jan. 6
PVUSD board was right to make cuts when they did
Brandon Diniz has written an impassioned guest Sentinel editorial; but he left out details on...
