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A Year of Service, Growth, and Civic Health in Watsonville

By Jennifer Holm & Jennifer Schacher, PVUSD Board President & Vice-President Like so many others in education, the Pajaro Valley Unified School District community has had a rough year. We are approaching the one-year mark of schools closing to in-person instruction. That feels significant. In...

Police chiefs, Feb. 24: Everyone must do their part to prevent gun violence

February 23, 2018

As law enforcement executives in Santa Cruz County, each of us individually may have different views of how best to reduce gun violence, but we all committed to providing leadership to prevent and reduce gun violence and to keep our children and teachers safe in our schools.

Letters to the Editor, June 27: Remembering Bill Bachan

June 26, 2017

Letters to the Editor, June 27, 2017

March 30, 2020

Respect our leaders I am a Ph.D. in agriculture and marine research in the Monterey Bay for the past 50 years. I have read about and seen nearly every political regime, agricultural and oceanic issue as it relates to Monterey Bay during those last five...

ICE becomes an autocratic tool

December 23, 2025

It is generally accepted that, historically, a common survival strategy for autocratic leaders includes forming a personal paramilitary support group. These groups serve to counterbalance the regular military, strengthen security services and provide an armed force loyal directly to the leaders, rather than the...

December 6, 2019

Clearing up the attacks on Panetta You may have seen strange and vague ads on TV this last week that mention our Congressman, Jimmy Panetta, and a bill that he introduced. I want to set the record straight and share how this bill will restore...

January 21, 2022

Disappointed that Greenway is on ballot I was saddened to see the Greenway millionaires have succeeded in getting the signatures required for their initiative to vote on the future of clean passenger rail service for the branch rail line. The current plan is to build the...

Letters to the editor Oct. 17–23

October 16, 2025

Organophosphates Endanger Our Children’s Future 25 years ago, when Dr. Brenda Eskenazi and her UC Berkeley team at the School of Public Health began taking blood and urine samples of pregnant women and young children in the Salinas Valley, they figured that anyone living within...

June 8, 2023

What is normal? I thought things would return to normal following the three-year Covid pandemic and devastating Santa Cruz Mountain fires. I thought we’d survived the worst. But nothing could have prepared me for the first three months of 2023 and the meteorological disasters...

From the editor's desk, Oct. 17: A disastrous series of events

October 16, 2017

Too close to home, the deadliest wildfires in California’s history are destroying lives and scorching the northern areas of the state.

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Lives lost

A Year of Service, Growth, and Civic Health in Watsonville

Returning to class

Police chiefs, Feb. 24: Everyone must do their part to prevent gun violence

Letters to the Editor, June 27: Remembering Bill Bachan

Now is the time to respect our leaders

ICE becomes an autocratic tool

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Letters to the editor Oct. 17–23

Erica Padilla-Chavez: We are the Food Bank

From the editor's desk, Oct. 17: A disastrous series of events

Deputies: Man drove stolen car to face charges for stealing a...

Caltrans safety improvement projects planned for Hwy. 129 & 152

Pajaro Valley High to stage ‘Zoot Suit’

Santa Cruz stabbing suspect identified

No Kings Protest set for March 28