48th Annual Heritage Holiday Craft & Gift Fair opens Friday
The 48th Annual Heritage Holiday Craft & Gift Fair will run Friday and Saturday at the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds.
This year the event will feature 110 crafters and 120 booths featuring crafts, gifts, antiques, collectibles, toys, holiday foods, edible gifts and more.
“It’s the perfect...
Beer Mule opens in Watsonville
The owners of Beer Mule were hoping for an easy “soft opening” when they announced their first night via Instagram on Saturday.
Santa Cruz METRO steps up disinfecting routines to keep rolling
SANTA CRUZ COUNTY—Deep cleaning is now routine at Santa Cruz METRO to not only keep their fleet on the road, but to assure riders that busses are squeaky clean.
Every day since early March, before the first person in Santa Cruz County was diagnosed with...
Brothers slice into downtown: Plans for pizzeria in historic downtown building
Two Watsonville brothers — one a trained chef and the other a community organizer — plan to reopen a shuttered downtown restaurant to serve New York-style pizza and mugs of craft beer.
County releases draft battery storage ordinance
The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors on Jan. 13 will review proposed rules governing large-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS), which are expected to allow the controversial facilities to be built in unincorporated areas of the county while giving local officials a measure...
Watsonville woman arrested for attempted murder
WATSONVILLE—A Watsonville woman was arrested Wednesday for attempted murder after allegedly stabbing a 31-year-old woman multiple times Sunday night.
Delilah Yasin, 41, was booked into Santa Cruz County Jail in lieu of $250,000 bail, jail records showed.
After working the case for two days, investigators identified...
PHOTO: 2 crashes clog Hwy 1 in Watsonville
Watsonville firefighter John Stone (left) joins other emergency workers in dealing with a five-vehicle crash on northbound Highway 1 in Watsonville Jan. 14.
Watsonville Firefighter John Stone (left) joins other emergency workers in dealing with one of two crashes on northbound Highway 1 in...
Crowds flock to beaches | About Town
Masks and social distancing: these are the chief issues of the day, according to scores of medical experts, as to how we get out of the huge coronavirus mess we’re in. And in some places people observe the safety guidelines of masking up around...
Watsonville High locked down after gun seen
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...
Si Se Puede opens new 30-bed facility
At a ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday in Watsonville, Encompass Community Services celebrated the opening of a new Si Se Puede behavioral health campus on Miles...
