Pavelski scores 2; Thornton has 1,000th assist in SJ's win
Joe Pavelski scored an empty-net goal with 26 seconds left for a 3-1 lead, with Marc-Edouard Vlasic picking up the first assist and Thornton the second.
PVUSD honors college-bound students
About 150 students participated in College Signing Day, the first time Pajaro Valley Unified School District has held such an event for all of its seniors.
Transit Center opens customer service booth
For the first time in 16 years, the Watsonville Transit Center has a customer service booth.
Plan aims to curb speeders
Concerned about speeding on your street? Get together with your neighbors and form a neighborhood traffic group, city officials advise.
Students compete in annual spelling bee
The annual countywide Spelling Bee took place Saturday at UC Santa Cruz. Students from fourth to ninth grade participated in two separate groups.
PHOTO: Classes resume at Pajaro Valley Unified School District
More than 1,400 students returned to Pajaro Valley High School for the first day of school Wednesday, along with nearly 19,000 of their peers across Pajaro Valley Unified School District.
New event to light up the sky
This year, the Fourth of July festivities in Watsonville will end with a bang — literally. “Fire in the Sky,” the city’s first fireworks show in many years, will be held during an open house at the Watsonville Municipal Airport from 5-9:30 p.m., after the
Fighting cancer one lap at a time
The 12th annual Relay for Life, a signature fundraiser for the American Cancer Society, took over Emmett M. Geiser Field at Watsonville High School over the weekend.
Election 2018, County Supervisor 4th District: Caput leads Dutra in early results
Early results show Greg Caput headed to his third term as the Fourth District Santa Cruz County Supervisor, but “thousands” of ballots are still left to be counted, according to the Santa Cruz County Elections Department.
Pajaro Valley Pride holds second annual festival
Hundreds of people flocked downtown late Sunday morning for the second annual Pajaro Valley Pride Festival.
Powerful storms clobber Central Coast
A string of strong winter storms slammed the Central Coast over the past several days, toppling power and communication lines, knocking down scores of...




















