PVUSD trustees approve SRO program
The Pajaro Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees on Wednesday approved contracts with Watsonville Police Department and the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office to place uniformed law enforcement officials at the district’s three comprehensive high schools as school resource officers (SROs).
These SROs will...
PVUSD to hold special ethnic studies session
The Pajaro Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees will hold a special study session on March 28 to discuss the district’s ethnic studies curriculum, the board voted Wednesday.
The discussion is not an action item, and there will not yet be a vote to...
Pajaro River levee project gets huge boost from feds
WATSONVILLE—The Pajaro River levee restoration is one of four projects nationwide receiving funding from the federal government, with $67 million from President Joe Biden’s administration coming to help with the long-awaited renovation.
Biden made the announcement on Tuesday. The funding is part of the Infrastructure...
Multiple shots fired into vehicle, two detained, gun recovered
Two suspects were detained Tuesday in Watsonville on suspicion of firing off a string of shots from a gun into a car.
Watsonville Police said the incident unfolded at the corner of Bridge and Secoya streets in the Vista Montaña housing complex around 2:30pm.
Multiple witnesses...
PHOTOS: Freedom Rotary sponsors mural
Members of the Rotary Club of Freedom celebrate a new mural they sponsored next to Flodberg Park Tuesday. President Trina Coffman-Gomez (center) said artist Erika Rosendale (holding scissors) created the 100-foot mural that reflects the words, vibrant, freedom and playful. Rosendale has created numerous...
Lost & found
A woman who lost her wallet in 1962 was reunited with it 58 years later this week when construction workers found the red leather folding wallet during a refurbishing project of a movie theater.
It was discovered in a framing and sheetrock cavity inside...
Work moves ahead on city plaza
Work is moving forward on the Watsonville City Plaza revitalization project that will preserve the historic hub of downtown for years to come.
On Tuesday crews from Selden & Son were joined by city officials to get an in-depth view of what the job entails....
Watsonville woman dies in DUI crash
WATSONVILLE—A Watsonville woman died in a two-vehicle crash late Saturday night on Holohan Road in Watsonville.
According to California Highway Patrol officer Israel Murillo, Breanna Romero, 26, was driving north in a 2015 Hyundai Elantra around 10:20pm. The driver of a Volvo XC90 was traveling...
Sheriff’s Office, Cal Fire investigate Bayview Hotel fire
APTOS—Fire broke out in the historic Bayview Hotel Sunday afternoon.
Central Fire Battalion Chief Ryan Peters said a fast response from Central firefighters put a quick lid on the blaze inside the three-story landmark, which he described as a tinderbox.
“We kept it to one room...
South County vaccinations lagging as state readies to remove restrictions
SANTA CRUZ COUNTY—Masks, capacity limits and several other mandates imposed by the state to slow the spread of Covid-19 will all become a thing of the past on Tuesday. And while Santa Cruz County health officials in their first press conference since May called...
Community leaders host rally for Measure E
Dozens of community members and local leaders gathered at a rally Friday at Watsonville Community Hospital in support of Measure E, the temporary half-cent...
