This Week in Pajaro Valley’s Past, May 14
25 years ago on May 14, 1996
The program “Home Independent Study” is open in the PV School District at Alianza Elementary School. The 90-plus students enrolled in it are free to explore their own learning styles, interests and ideas while keeping within state and...
Letters to the Editor, July 13: I’ve got a feeling (about Mintie White School’s trees)
Letters to the Editor, July 13, 2017
Letter: Fairgrounds and community will suffer the most
I came to the Pajaro Valley in late 2000 to serve this community as editor of the Register-Pajaronian. For the next decade, my staff and I covered a series of fair managers and scandals at the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds and it seemed the...
From the editor's desk: A boost for local organizations
It was a good weekend for fundraising in the Pajaro Valley and surrounding area.
Letter: Rail Trail classism
The selection of the “Dirt Road To Davenport” over a badly needed county light rail system demonstrates that climate change means little to the supervisors, councilmembers and bureaucrats of Santa Cruz County.
Monies are found for a dirt road for bicyclists and tourists. Meanwhile the...
Gail McNulty, Nov. 16: Bold choices today could save tomorrow
The UN’s October Climate warning is terrifying. We need profound changes in the next 10-12 years to build a more equitable world and sustain life as we know it. News of increasingly destructive, deadly California forest fires offer a grim vision of how continuing with “business as usual” might impact us locally.
Question of the week
Do you feel confident in the direction Watsonville is heading?
Yes: 84 | No: 122
Public comment
Steven Diaz: You mean the direction of keeping things status quo, right? Watsonville needs to get with the times, enough living in the past. Time to...
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,...


















