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Hundreds of people joined a celebration of the eight-year anniversary of the S. Martinelli Company Store on Harvest Drive Thursday during an ice cream social.  To mark the return of the holidays, Martinelli’s offered up samples of its Apple Cider & Cranberry Jam Ice Cream. Gun...

Glen Schaller, whose grassroots work touched nearly every aspect of local progressive politics for the past four decades in both the Central Coast and throughout California, who led campaigns for numerous elected leaders, and who joined the battle for LGBTQ+ equality long before it...

The 40th annual Evening of Wine & Roses unfolded Saturday night at the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds. Put on by the Community Health Trust of Pajaro Valley, the event serves as a fundraiser in support of health and wellness services for the Pajaro Valley. Guests...

The Pajaro Valley Unified School District is asking the public to help in its search for a new superintendent. In a series of trilingual input sessions lasting through Thursday, the district will ask what characteristics the new superintendent should have to best meet the needs...

A traffic stop on a driver who ran a red light Monday ended with Watsonville Police arresting four people, and seizing a loaded gun from a 13-year-old, 92 grams of cocaine and nearly 20 grams of marijuana. Michelle Pulido, spokeswoman for Watsonville Police, said the...

A Watsonville Police K-9 was stabbed Tuesday afternoon in a confrontation police had with an attempted murder suspect.  Sgt. Jarrod Pisturino said the incident began when police got behind a white Honda Accord around 4pm on Rodriguez Street in downtown Watsonville. When the solo occupant...

It is perhaps one of the greatest ironies within the Santa Cruz County community that many of the people who labor in the vast agricultural fields of the Pajaro Valley cannot afford the food they harvest. According to the County of Santa Cruz, one in...

Anyone passing through the streets of downtown Watsonville for the next few nights may notice a crew shooting for an upcoming film. The production includes a car rigged with cameras and lights, and will take place in local restaurants and wetlands. The film is “They Know...

Every Veterans Day, a group of former military service members gathers at St. Patrick’s Church, and then marches along Main Street through downtown Watsonville. The march is relatively short; it is just under a mile to the Henry J. Mello Center, where the annual Veterans...