Restaurants, shops can operate outdoors with city approval
WATSONVILLE—Restaurants and retail stores in city limits can now operate outdoors thanks to an emergency order signed by City Manager Matt Huffaker on Friday.
Businesses looking to take advantage of the alfresco option would need to receive approval of a Temporary Covid-19 Encroachment Agreement from...
Supervisor Felipe Hernandez to host BESS town hall
Santa Cruz County Supervisor Felipe Hernandez will host a town hall meeting tonight, Oct. 27, to discuss potential rules for battery energy storage systems (BESS).
Hernandez will be discussing a potential new ordinance that he says would govern safety, transparency and ensure local control for...
Police ramp up traffic, pedestrian enforcement
Watsonville Police ratcheted up bike and pedestrian safety enforcement operations on Thursday with focused enforcement on motorists, pedestrians and bicyclists.
Art tour on the move
The monthly First Friday Art Tour is gaining traction in Santa Cruz, especially over the summer when blended with the Cooper Street Festival.
Downtown mosaics completed
“Celebrating the Dignity of Labor,” a series of 16 mosaic medallions, has been recently completed and embedded in the sidewalks along three intersections on Main Street.
Watsonville expected to clean out encampment Wednesday morning
WATSONVILLE—The city of Watsonville is planning to follow through on a plan to clean out a homeless encampment on Bridge Street early Wednesday morning.
The decision to stick to the ultimatum given to the 25 or so people staying in the parking lot on Sunday—the...
MB Horsemanship and Therapeutic Center raising funds for vehicle
The Monterey Bay Horsemanship and Therapeutic Center is in need of a vehicle to transport its clients to and from the ranch.
PVUSD taps Murry Schekman for interim superintendent
The Pajaro Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees on Wednesday will consider approving a contract for former Watsonville High School Principal Murry Schekman to be interim superintendent while the district looks for a permanent one.
In addition to WHS, Schekman served as principal at...
Watsonville High hires new leader
WATSONVILLE—Watsonville High School’s new principal is Maria Clara Fernandez, who graduated from that school in 2001, Pajaro Valley Unified School District announced Tuesday.
Fernandez worked with Pajaro Valley students from 2000-11 in the After School program, in Migrant Education and as an elementary teacher. She...
Two die in crash on East Lake Avenue
Two people died in a two-car crash Sunday night at the intersection of East Lake Avenue and Casserly Road.
California Highway Patrol officer Israel Murillo...
