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Salud Para La Gente receives $25K donation

Sister Julie Hyer, OP, former CEO of Dominican Hospital for more than 22 years, and former CEO of Salud Para La Gente for two and a half years, delivered a donation of $25,000 on Feb. 28 to Salud on behalf of Lifeguard Charitable Fund to support oral health for children and their families.

NEXTie recipients unveiled

Event Santa Cruz recently announced this year’s NEXTie winners after reviewing more than 2,500 nominations.

Trailblazers Award winners announced

The Santa Cruz County Women’s Commission announced the four winners of the annual Trailblazers Awards on Tuesday.

Nonprofits, community groups invited to register for Human Race

The Volunteer Center of Santa Cruz County is inviting area nonprofits, schools, groups and churches to register now for the 2019 Human Race.

Panelists to discuss the future of democracy

With partisan politics in Washington dividing the nation, leaders from both sides of the political spectrum will sit down and talk about the state of the country and how to move forward during the return of “Saving Democracy.”

Santa Cruz Symphony hosts Outreach Concerts for students

Children gasped and called out excitedly as the Santa Cruz Symphony played the first notes of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 at the Henry J. Mello Center on Tuesday morning.

Human trafficking symposium draws hundreds

Standing in front of a large audience at Santa Cruz County’s first human trafficking symposium, Deborah Pembrook said that, when she was a young girl, a trusted family friend brought her to truck stops and seedy motels to sell her for sex.

Four injured when unlicensed teen crashes car

Four people were injured — one of them seriously — when an unlicensed teen driver lost control and crashed after striking three other vehicles Friday morning, Santa Cruz Police spokeswoman Joyce Blaschke said.

Date set for PV High athletic field work

The Pajaro Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees on Wednesday put their final approval on the PV High athletic field, which will allow work to begin there on April 15.

Luncheon celebrates local agriculture

Heritage Hall at the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds was bustling late Wednesday morning as guests of the National Agriculture Day Spring Luncheon eagerly lined up for food.
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A community united: cleanup day draws hundreds

Hundreds of people gathered Saturday morning on beaches, in neighborhoods and along riverways to participate in the second-annual Pitch In All Santa Cruz Cleanup...