Lawsuit targets Vistra facility
Close to 100 people gathered Saturday in Moss Landing to voice their concern and demand better information about the fire that tore through a battery storage facility at the Moss Landing Power Plant on Jan. 16
Brian Roeder, a spokesman for the group Never Again...
County’s new Public Defender office begins operations
SANTA CRUZ—Santa Cruz County’s new Public Defender office began operations on July 1, and the department’s roughly 60 employees celebrated the occasion with a barbecue in the backyard of its May Avenue headquarters.
The new office includes an increased number of attorneys, in addition to...
Briefs: Annieglass workshop; Filipino American History Month festival
Festival celebrates Filipino American History Month
The Tobera Project will hold its second annual Filipino American History Month festival Saturday at the Watsonville City Plaza from noon to 5pm.
The free event will celebrate and honor Filipino history in the Pajaro Valley since the 1920s. The...
Victim in Pleasure Point kidnapping incident found dead
PLEASURE POINT—The man found dead late Tuesday morning in a vehicle in the Santa Cruz Mountains has been identified as Tushar Atre, who was kidnapped from his Pleasure Point home about seven hours earlier.
Atre, 50, was taken from his upscale oceanfront home about 3...
Winter one-act plays at Aptos High
Aptos High Drama Production presents three, one-act plays that revolve around relationships, and most importantly, the end of them.
Kaiser grants $100K to Jacob’s Heart
WATSONVILLE—Kaiser Permanente has awarded a $100,000 grant to Watsonville-based organization Jacob’s Heart Children’s Cancer Support Services.
The grant aims to provide bilingual and bicultural grief support to families in Monterey County who are coping with the loss of a child or struggling with a child...
PVWMA seeking volunteers for groundwater committee
WATSONVILLE—Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency is looking for volunteers to be part of a newly conceived committee focused on groundwater sustainability in the Pajaro Valley.
The 17-member Sustainable Groundwater Committee which will meet up to 10 times through fall 2021, will focus on updating PV...
Santa Cruz County to launch mental health wellness centers in schools
SANTA CRUZ—In a future envisioned by Santa Cruz County education officials, every comprehensive high school in the county will have a mental health services “hub” where students can access a wide range of counseling and mental health services.
Before that date, the County will launch...
PV head coach Kristian Flores resigns after five years with program...
Pajaro Valley High Athletics Department on Thursday announced that Kristian Flores was resigning from his position as head coach of the girls soccer program.
Flores...
