Movie Review: Bay, stop making 'Transformers' movies
The plot? Well, it’s there. Does it make sense? No. Do the filmmakers care? It doesn’t feel like it. The exposition is excessive and most of the time it just complicates what could have been a simple action romp through the past.
Letter: Contact, but no feedback
I am at a loss as to why the PVCHD Board of Directors have not responded to my emails to their website. I have sent emails to their contact listing since as far back as April 2022, yet with no response, other than to...
The joy of Easter
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...
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...
Election Night: Watsonville Hospital’s Measure N takes early lead
As election results continued to roll in Tuesday night, Measure N came out swinging, with 69.9% of voters approving it.
That number had dipped to 68.5% early Wednesday morning just barely making the required two-thirds supermajority.
Measure N would provide $116 million for Watsonville Community Hospital...
Letters to the Editor, March 25
Possible delays for Freedom project are concerning
I am concerned after reading the March 17 article about the upcoming pipework that the City of Watsonville plans to conduct on Freedom Boulevard. The plan has already been delayed due to supply shortage, what happens if there...
Community shows its pride
Elaine Johnson was 15 before she realized that the “aunt” who lived with her grandmother was actually her grandmother’s partner of four decades.
In those days, LGBTQ largely had to live in the shadows, lest they draw scorn from a society not yet evolved enough...
Giving everyone access to health coverage is a priority for Monterey Bay hospitals
With all the political instability in Washington D.C., it’s difficult to know what our health care system will look like in the future. Despite the recent failure of efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the White House appears to b
Carmageddon: Highway 1 closed for 24 hours
The California Highway Patrol closed north and southbound lanes of Highway 1 in Soquel Saturday at 7pm to make way for Granite Construction crews to demolish the 1948 Capitola Avenue bridge above the highway.
The closure and carefully crafted detour between Bay/Porter and Park Avenue...
Letters to the Editor, Jan. 23–29
Passenger rail price estimates too high
One can never convince me that restoring the Santa Cruz Branch rail line for passenger rail would cost an...




















