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November 11, 2025

Strawberry Festival returns this weekend

The Watsonville Strawberry Festival returns this year on Aug. 4 and 5, bringing with it some old favorites and a few new additions.

PV Arts’ latest exhibit celebrates Latinx artists

Pajaro Valley Arts is currently preparing for its upcoming exhibit, “Hablamos Juntos/Together We Speak: Un Diálogo Visual/A Visual Dialogue,” opening Aug. 8.

Aptos Coffee Roasting Company to close

A little more than three decades after opening in Rancho Del Mar Shopping Center, Aptos Coffee Roasting Company will be closing.

Volunteers garner AAA Gold Volunteer Awards

AAA team members Alfredo Torres and Yvonne Morales recently won volunteer awards signed by President Donald Trump.

City interns complete inaugural program

Twenty local high school students graduated from the inaugural Summer in the City Internship Program on Friday.

Community briefs, July 27

Community briefs, July 27, 2018

Watsonville resident marks 104th birthday

Clara Fletcher of Watsonville will turn 104 on Saturday.

Staff of Life market to open in East Lake Village

Staff of Life, a Santa Cruz-based natural foods store that launched nearly a half-century ago, will move into the space occupied by Super Max Discount Foods.

AWOL soldier arrested

A soldier stationed at Fort Hunter Liggett in Jolon was arrested in San Mateo County Tuesday night after he took a Humvee mounted with a machine gun during a training exercise.

Murals on the move

To celebrate Watsonville's sesquicentennial, Pajaro Valley Arts wanted to create a public art project that recognized the city's people and agriculture.
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From our archives: Funds drive

Members of Native Daughters prepare for a holiday event on Oct. 26, 1959 in Watsonville. (Sam Vestal/Pajaronian file)

A call for peace