City accepting applications for community service grants
The city of Watsonville is accepting applications for Social and Community Service Grants for fiscal year cycle 2021-23. The deadline to apply is May 17 by 5 pm.
Applicants must fill out the Google form application found here: forms.gle/yfXvWrPDUY9YrwzT8
The city will have $266,000 to fund...
Michael Gaither and His New Best Friends to perform at Jansen Music
Michael Gaither has been performing mostly as a solo singer-songwriter for the past 15 years.
Q&A: Cristal González Avila speaks about her artistic inspirations
Youth in grades 3 through 8 are invited to a five-day workshop entitled “The Mask We Wear & the Stories We Tell.” Facilitated by Cristal González Avila, it runs June 27 through July 1 at the Watsonville Center for the Arts. This hands-on workshop...
SC Warriors donate masks to Loaves and Fishes
WATSONVILLE—The Santa Cruz Warriors’ season ended more than seven months ago—it was cut short due to the Covid-19 pandemic—but the NBA G League franchise has found different ways to score points in the Santa Cruz County.
Team mascot Mav’Riks on Oct. 12 dropped off a...
Housing projects taking shape in Pajaro, Watsonville
Just across the Pajaro River from Watsonville in Monterey County, hundreds of seasonal farmworkers are now living in a recently completed housing complex created for them at the end of Susan Street.
Buses take them to their job sites, and return them to the gated...
Annual fundraising exhibit returns to Pajaro Valley Gallery
The Pajaro Valley Gallery will be celebrating the opening of “Take Aways: Art to Go!” this weekend, with an opening reception on Sunday from 2-4 p.m.
Going forth for beach cleanup
The Fourth of July has long been a time of celebration in Santa Cruz County, a height-of-summer fete that draws hordes of people to local beaches to indulge in picnics, swim in the ocean, soak up the sun and, for some, trash the place.
But...
Gottschalks building renovation going to Planning Commission
WATSONVILLE—A proposed redevelopment of the vacant Gottschalks building in the heart of downtown will come to the Watsonville Planning Commission during its Oct. 6 meeting.
Navigator Schools, the parent organization of local charter school Watsonville Prep, and the Hansen Family Trust are teaming up to...
Watsonville looks to cut taxes on cannabis to compete with neighbors
WATSONVILLE—The Watsonville City Council at its Tuesday meeting will weigh whether to overhaul its tax rates on cannabis businesses, a move a consultant and city staff say would make the city more competitive with neighboring jurisdictions.
The proposed changes would cut taxes on retail cannabis...
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...
