This Week in Pajaro Valley’s Past, May 7
25 years ago on May 6, 1996
The Cinco de Mayo festivities in the Plaza keep growing, drawing 8,000 people and diverse entertainers this year. Sunday’s festival featured the Mariachi Eleazor Cortes group, the salsa band Orquestra Sabor Latino, the White Hawk Dancers, Banda Torero...
Letters to the Editor, March 17: Watsonville kicks big tobacco in the butt
Letters to the Editor, March 17, 2018
Letter: Speak out on fair manager’s firing
Next Tuesday, Feb. 7, the Fair Board will be meeting at 1:30pm at the Fine Arts Building. The first item under Correspondence is “Performance Audit with Dave Kegebein Response.” The Board and the state have been unresponsive to requests to schedule meetings at times...
Letter: Gratitude for C&N Tractors
C&N Tractors on Salinas Road just finished repairing my Kubota tractor in February when the levee burst. Suddenly it was under six feet of water. After the mud and flood receded, the tractor needed serious help.
I want to express my gratitude to Nigel Mallison,...
Letters to the Editor, April 9
Censure is a distraction from real issues
While in no way defending the recent behavior of Georgia Acosta, I have to call out those Pajaro Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees members now involved in the censure pile-on.
Following the Brown Act is the responsibility...
Guest View: A salute to Watsonville’s finest
By SHERRY DANG
CONTRIBUTED TO THE PAJARONIAN
We have several 7-Eleven stores in the area. Since the pandemic, we have worked the graveyard shift. This turned out to be the best experience in the last few decades.
We have seen the best, the worst and everything in...
Movie review: 'Power Rangers' tries, fails to be one-size-fits-all
There are some moments that are similar to “Chronicle,” Josh Trank’s 2012 film about three teenagers that stumble upon super powers, but there are also moments when director Dean Israelite’s “Power Rangers” feels like a Saturday cartoon.
Religion: Everything is waiting for you
“Where ever you are is the entry point.”
~ Kabir
I am beginning to see the changing of the season all around me. I smell the whiff of autumn arriving in the air. It is a good season for deep listening to what God (the Universe,...
From Our Archives: Public Transportation
A city bus rolls along Main Street into the Watsonville Transit Square on March 23, 1954. (Sam Vestal/Pajaronian file)




















