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WATSONVILLE—Watsonville City Council at a special meeting on Tuesday evening directed staff to search for two companies that will spearhead the city’s efforts to find a new chief executive. One company will be in charge of finding a permanent replacement for outgoing city manager Matt...

Watsonville Police are investigating a shooting that sent a man to the hospital with two gunshot wounds.

WATSONVILLE—Pajaro Valley Arts (PVA) is looking for artists and muralists to be featured in Moveable Murals, a project done in collaboration with the City of Watsonville and the Parks & Recreation Commission. The project, now in its third year, provides a venue for artists and...

WATSONVILLE—Pajaro Valley Unified School District high school and middle school students are encouraged to submit essays for the Mayor For The Day contest, which will give one student the chance to spend the day with Watsonville Mayor Jimmy Dutra. In 2019, Yocelyn Gonzalez, then a...

MONTEREY COUNTY—A federal magistrate on Monday extended a temporary restraining order stopping Monterey County from removing a group of homeless people from an encampment along the Pajaro River levee. The decision by Magistrate Judge Susan van Keulen allows dozens of people to remain along the...

WATSONVILLE—A 14-year-old Watsonville High School student was arrested Monday after police found him with a weapon that turned out to be a BB gun, City of Watsonville spokeswoman Michelle Pulido said. The school was briefly locked down after someone reported seeing a person with a...

A Watsonville firefighter chases flames back where a wildland fire broke out today at at around 2:40pm on Ohlone Parkway between Main Street and Harkins Slough Road. A huge cloud of white smoke engulfed nearby Panda Express restaurant as groups of onlookers stood by...

Community briefs, April 25, 2017

Described as the largest, and only, festival in Aromas, the annual Aromas Day returns Sunday.

A Watsonville man who last year arranged a meeting for sex with someone he believed was a 14-year-old girl was sentenced Thursday to two years of probation and a 120-day suspended jail sentence. Valentin Rodriguez, 63, must also register for life as a sex offender. Rodriguez,...