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The February 22nd issue of the Register-Pajaronian features a special "Best Of" publication listing the voters choice for best businesses in the Pajaro Valley.
Santa Cruz Chorale to hold annual holiday concert
The Santa Cruz Chorale will open its 2018-2019 season with “Christmas With the Chorale” on Dec. 8 and 9.
Count shows slight decline in county homeless
Santa Cruz County saw a slight decline in its numbers of homeless people after the biennial count conducted in January.
Historical tune up | About Town
Tarmo Hannula
It’s the last day of January 2020.
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I noticed a paint crew has started a major paint job on the historic home on the corner of East Beach and Lincoln streets. That’s the towering white place with tall majestic columns, almost identical to the...
Watsonville Elks Lodge marks St. Patrick’s Day, gears up for upcoming event
WATSONVILLE—The Watsonville Elks Lodge celebrated St. Patrick’s Day with a dinner of corned beef and cabbage, live music by Martin the Hit Man and dancing.
Profits from the event went to the Elks National Foundation and Purple Pig Program.
The Elks will hold their next event...
PHOTO: Public invited to help complete Covid memorial this weekend
A large mosaic sculpture, created by local artists Kathleen Crocetti and Monica Galvan to memorialize victims of Covid 19 now stands in a field near upper Struve Slough. On Saturday and Sunday from 2-6pm each day, community members who have lost someone to Covid...
What’s on the barbecue for the holiday?
The local meat processing businesses, Freedom Meat Lockers and Corralitos Market & Sausage Co., are ramping up their stock to handle demands for the Memorial Day weekend.
Program helps locals buy homes
The HOME - First Time Home Buyer Program helps locals buy their first home by distributing loan down payments of up to $150,000 and grants to qualifying residents of Santa Cruz County.
Watsonville Hospital gets temporary CEO
WATSONVILLE—The Pajaro Valley Healthcare District Board of Directors on Wednesday unanimously appointed Watsonville Community Hospital Chief Operations Officer Matko Vranjes to serve as interim CEO, after Steven Salyer announced his resignation last week.
Vranjes will begin on April 11, Salyer’s last day.
According to Board member...
Santa Cruz man charged with sex crimes involving minor
SANTA CRUZ—Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s deputies on Monday arrested a Santa Cruz man on several felony sex crimes, sheriff’s spokeswoman Ashley Keehn said.
Lucas Klatt, 39, was charged with lewd and lascivious acts with a child, annoying or molesting a child and burglary.
Klatt is known...
Man arrested in levee death
Monterey County Sheriff’s deputies on Friday arrested a Pajaro man for the murder of Watsonville resident Jesús Alfonso Duarte Figueroa, whose body was found...