Watsonville artist’s sculpture heads to Burning Man
Every year, tens of thousands of people from across the globe gather in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert for Burning Man, an experimental festival focused on art, self-expression and community.
The week-long event has participants arrive with their own shelter, food and water, and supplies to...
Watsonville’s library director closing the book on 48-year career
WATSONVILLE—Carol Heitzig said that she doesn't like to travel.
“I’ve barely been out of the state,” Heitzig said.
But for the past 48 years, she has helped old, young and everyone in between see the world, travel through time and explore the universe as an unsung...
Two cannabis dispensaries seek Watsonville Planning Commission’s OK
WATSONVILLE—The Watsonville Planning Commission will review plans for two proposed cannabis dispensaries at its July 13 meeting.
Bryce Berryessa of Berryessa Holdings, LLC, and Jason Sweatt of Santa Cruz Veterans Alliance, Inc. are both expected to present to the commission at its monthly virtual meeting.
Berryessa...
Friend announces he won’t seek reelection
Santa Cruz Supervisor and current Board Chair Zach Friend announced Friday that he will not seek a fourth term on the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors.
Friend was first elected in 2012, and was overwhelmingly re-elected in 2016 and 2020. His current term ends...
Photo: Then & now at the County Fair
Novella Evans is shown is in 1999 in Watsonville at age 5 in a photo to promote the upcoming Santa Cruz County Fair with her Bantam Cochin chicken, Cluck-Cluck. She is shown again 22 years later at the 2021 County Fair with another Bantam...
Photo: Two injured in Freedom Blvd. head-on crash
Emergency workers team up to extricate a female passenger from a caved-in pickup on the 2900 block of Freedom Boulevard Friday.
California Highway Patrol officer Michael Matildi said the male driver of a white GMC Sierra Denali pickup was traveling north on Freedom Boulevard at...
Late heroics help ‘Catz boys squad edge Independence | CCS basketball...
Ahmi Martin has been the main ball distributor as a point guard for the Watsonville High boys’ basketball team throughout the 2025-26 winter season.
The...
