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August 24, 2026

Mayor’s and Supervisor’s November updates

Shaping Watsonville’s Future Together By Watsonville Mayor Maria Orozco Our 2025 State of the City on Oct. 22 was a meaningful moment to pause, reflect, and look forward—to recognize how far we’ve come and how we’re shaping a brighter future for Watsonville together. This year’s theme, Shaping...

Cultural Shift

Jay Shinseki Watsonville
MEMO FROM REV. SHINSEKI “There are causes for all human suffering, and  there is a way by which they may be ended, because everything in the world is the result of a vast concurrence of causes and conditions, and  everything disappears as these causes and...

Damaris Arciga, Dec. 21: How an ATM stole my Christmas

On Nov. 23, I went to my local Watsonville Chase Bank to deposit $2,000.

From the editor's desk, June 20: A surprising meeting

A seemingly routine item on the Watsonville Planning Commission’s agenda has turned out to be full of surprises.

Letter: Homegrown, or another outsider?

letter to the editor pajaronian
I spent 50 years of my professional career working at Watsonville Community Hospital. Over those five decades I was fortunate enough to have performed well enough to rise through the ranks and become manager of the Radiology Department for several years.  As a manager I...

Letters to the Editor, Sept. 17

letter to the editor pajaronian
SRO reversal is disappointing We are upset, but not surprised, to hear that the Pajaro Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees has voted to bring School Resource Officers (SROs) back to campus  A pilot program using education money, funding that was meant to go...

Elon Musk is a planet-saving super hero

One of the most widely used technological advances is the automobile. Cars are all over the world and almost everyone uses them. However, gasoline cars produce extremely large amounts of pollution while electric cars do not directly produce any pollution.

Letters to the editor: Aug. 29–Sept. 4

Children are taught inegrity In 1972 I started teaching sixth grade at Hall District Elementary School in Las Lomas, in north Monterey County. It was my first real teaching job, and the class was not very well-behaved. So, entering my second year I made some...
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Felon arrested with firearms, suppressors, ammunition and methamphetamine

An investigation that began with a traffic stop accelerated when investigators found multiple firearms, firearm suppressors, high-capacity magazines, ammunition, firearm manufacturing components and methamphetamine...

Man arrested after standoff

Climate change turns lethal