Food Truck Tours: A pastor taco done right
Paloma Mexican Food, called El Chapulin by its loyal patrons, is a new-ish taco truck that sets up in the empty lot next to Lulu’s Fiesta Liquor & Deli.
Santa Cruz REI opens doors Friday
SANTA CRUZ—With a short welcoming greeting to a small crowd gathered outside Santa Cruz’s new REI store Wednesday evening, manager John Davis opened the doors for the first time, allowing employees’ friends and family a peek before the store opens Friday.
An abbreviation of Recreational...
Open Studios Art Tour begin Saturday
The annual Santa Cruz County Open Studios Art Tour, which showcases dozens of artists around the county in their studios, is set to welcome the public starting Oct. 4.
To prime the public with a wide range of what’s on deck, the Pajaro Valley Arts...
Year in Review: 2020 in photos
Here are photos from the Pajaronian team that defined this year.
Coronavirus closures
Community comes together
For the record
Hot topics
Saying Goodbye
Bright spots
Cabrillo Gallery opens first exhibit of the year
APTOS—Cardboard is a material that nearly everyone has at their disposal. Often used in packaging and shipping, it is usually broken down to recycle or saved to reuse.
But cardboard can also be full of possibilities for artists. This is apparent at “Extraordinary Ordinary,” Cabrillo...
Thousands will lose health, food benefits under OBBBA
About 40,000 Santa Cruz County residents who depend on Medi-Cal—more than half of the 78,000 people with that coverage—could lose it after the passage of H.R. 1—President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA).
That was the message Tuesday from Santa Cruz County Human Services...
Volunteers gather to repair vandalized Black Lives Matter mural
Around 300 people joined forces to repair a giant Black Lives Matter mural Sunday in downtown Santa Cruz.
The work was a community response to the mural being damaged by two men in what prosecutors described as a hate crime for felony vandalism when they...
Trash talkers: keeping the County Clean
A group of city workers and volunteers spent the afternoon cleaning massive amounts of trash from a wooded hillside in Watsonville one sunny day in early December, hauling away several full dumpsters.
“It’s a hot mess,” said Sally-Christine Rodgers, who founded the Pitch-In Initiative about...
Top 9 Best Sites To Buy Instagram Likes in 2026
Published in cooperation between Famety and The Pajaronian
Instagram engagement is more competitive than ever in 2026. The algorithm prioritizes interaction signals such as likes,...
