Try This | Sept. 13, 2019
A weekly column that celebrates local businesses — especially eateries, watering holes, coffee shops and the like.
Local landscaper gets national recognition
K&D Landscaping has spent more than three decades improving ground cover for homes and businesses throughout the Monterey Bay. Now, they have a cover of their own: Emblazoned across the front of the August edition of the nationally distributed Lawn & Landscape magazine is Justin White, CEO of K&D on Hangar Way.
Female artists in their prime
The artwork of women over 60 years old has been collected into a new exhibit at the R. Blitzer Gallery on the west side of Santa Cruz.
City raises campaign finance limits
In next year’s city-wide elections voters will be able to donate up to $500, a $100 increase from the previous limit passed in 2010. The limit will increase by $25 every two years starting in 2022.
High-speed chase ends in 3-vehicle crash
A three-vehicle crash stemming from a high-speed pursuit shut down Freedom Boulevard for an hour Wednesday afternoon.
Cabrillo leaders approve $274.1M bond measure
The Cabrillo College Board of Trustees voted unanimously Monday night to bring a bond measure to voters as a way to pay for an ambitious set of infrastructure improvement and construction projects at both the Aptos and the Watsonville campuses.
Learning for all
Board members voted unanimously to reclassify longtime PVUSD employee Alejandra Rocha’s position within the VI Program as Alternative Media Specialist.
Caroline’s Nonprofit finds new home
Caroline’s Nonprofit Thrift Shop has moved. Though the move, across Trout Gulch Road into an adjacent business center was supposed to be temporary, it ended up being a perfect fit that was hard to turn down.
Watsonville police, WHS investigating campus stabbing
Updated 1:41pm
Four teens are in custody after a fight at Watsonville High School Thursday morning left one 14-year-old student and a school employee injured
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