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Nicole M. Young, Jan. 4: Positive Parenting Awareness Month — A time to renew, refresh and recharge

January 4, 2019

Tony’s Thoughts: Thanks for following through, PVUSD

Letters to the Editor, Oct. 11, 2019

Guest View: Absurd decision threatens fairgrounds’ future

From the editor's desk, April 3: On to the next 150 years

Letters to the Editor, May 4

May 4, 2018

Letters to the Editor, May 4, 2018

January 18, 2019

Focus on Agriculture will soon be two years old.

April 2, 2021

All around the world this weekend, Christians are celebrating Good Friday and Easter. Good Friday is sorrow remembered. Easter is joy experienced. Several years ago while travelling through Israel I had a chance to go inside a first-century tomb that had been discovered when road crews...

March 23, 2023

Thousands of Monterey and Santa Cruz County families were forced to evacuate March 11 after the Pajaro and Soledad rivers flooded this rural agricultural area. The storms arrived at the beginning of the growing season, just as farmworkers were going back to work and...

Letters to the editor Nov. 21-27

November 20, 2025

Criticism for Medina PVUSD trustee Gabriel Medina never fails to amaze me. From challenging the right of a Christian woman from a Midwest Bible college to student teach, to threatening to sue the district for $35,000, his conduct has been a lesson on how not...

April 6, 2018

Watsonville mayor's update, April 2018

April 17, 2020

Safety nets for California farmworkers Like health care workers on the front lines of coronavirus battle, California farmworkers are on the front lines of our state’s $54 billion food supply chain, yet have few safety nets and protections. Governor Newsom has rightly designated them as...

May 18, 2017

The Meyer Farm Worker Housing held its grand opening on April 20, and in the coming weeks will house 216 workers in the space on north First Street and Broadway.

Silvia Morales, Oct. 12: South County is underrepresented on the RTC

October 12, 2018

An acute racial divide has historically separated North and South County. Decisions made by the Regional Transportation Commission as it stands will adversely impact residents of the Pajaro Valley Unified School District (PVUSD) for decades. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation, low income and minority communities are negatively impacted in many ways by inadequate transportation planning.

July 2, 2024

Water fills the newly constructed sentiment drying beds on Holohan Road Wednesday as part of the College Lake Pipeline Project, which was designed to develop College Lake as a new water supply for the Pajaro Valley. Six miles of 30-inch water main will transport treated...

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Opinion

Nicole M. Young, Jan. 4: Positive Parenting Awareness Month — A time to renew, refresh and recharge

Tony’s Thoughts: Thanks for following through, PVUSD

Letters to the Editor, Oct. 11, 2019

Guest View: Absurd decision threatens fairgrounds’ future

From the editor's desk, April 3: On to the next 150 years

Letters to the Editor, May 4

Opinion: Connecting with agriculture in our community

The joy of Easter

Maria T. Cadenas: Including undocumented families in safety nets is the only way forward

Letters to the editor Nov. 21-27

Watsonville mayor's update, April 2018

Support California’s essential workers

Harvesting a home

Silvia Morales, Oct. 12: South County is underrepresented on the RTC

Photo story: Water distribution project progressing

Photo story: Floodwaters cover Elkhorn Road

Protesters across the U.S. decry Venezuela invasion, Maduro capture

Watsonville Community Hospital celebrates first new baby

County releases draft battery storage ordinance

PV girls’ basketball hosts first annual toy drive event on campus