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Nick Tovani carries Aptos to overtime win over defending league champion...
APTOS — Nick Tovani got hot when it mattered most Thursday night. When Aptos High’s boys basketball team needed someone to step up on offense, the senior guard was more than willing to be the...
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Locals celebrate flag football’s massive growth with first All-Star game
SANTA CRUZ — One year after flag football was first offered to high school student-athletes in Santa Cruz, Monterey and San Benito counties, the sport continued to see massive growth in 2024. In the...
View ArticlePhoto | Bittersweet goodbyes for Santa Cruz County Bank exec Mary Anne...
Mary Anne Carson revels in a congratulatory hug as she is honored Thursday evening at a retirement party in honor of her departure as executive vice president and chief marketing officer at Santa Cruz...
View ArticlePhoto | Walnut Avenue in Downtown Santa Cruz home to historic tree canopy
The bare branches of London plane trees provide a canopy in downtown Santa Cruz over Walnut Avenue as a cyclist signals to turn left on Center Street. Though many believe that the trees are sycamores,...
View ArticleIt’s time to nominate your Santa Cruz County Heroes
Another year, and another group of people who, based on their deeds and actions, deserve to be called heroes. Once again, the Sentinel — in a joint project with a dozen other Northern California...
View ArticleSanta Cruz | Adrian Gonzalez’s juvenile custody release trial reconvenes...
SANTA CRUZ — After a month-long break, the trial to determine if Adrian “A.J.” Gonzalez is still a danger to the public picked up again this week. In July 2015, at the age of 15, Gonzalez kidnapped,...
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Santa Cruz County supervisors to get Moss Landing battery fire update next week
SANTA CRUZ — Santa Cruz County leaders and the viewing public will be briefed next week on the local response to a fire that erupted more than a week ago at a battery storage facility in Moss Landing,...
View ArticleStephen Kessler | A biblioasis in downtown Santa Cruz
The closing of Logos more than seven years ago was the most devastating blow to local culture in my more than half-century in Santa Cruz. One of the greatest secondhand bookstores I’ve encountered in...
View ArticleDan Walters, CalMatters | Wildfires could halt state’s post-pandemic recovery
Three days after immensely destructive and deadly wildfires broke out in and around Los Angeles, Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed a $322.3 billion state budget with a positive revenue forecast “based on an...
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Aptos boys soccer ends Harbor’s 11-match unbeaten streak | Local Roundup
Aptos High’s boys soccer team helped its bid to repeat as Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League champion by beating host Harbor 3-1 in Santa Cruz on Friday. The Mariners rebounded from a loss to Santa Cruz...
View ArticlePhoto | Views from UC Santa Cruz greet onlookers with Monterey Bay sparkles
The Monterey Bay sparkles in morning sunlight as a person makes their way from Family Housing at UC Santa Cruz towards Rachel Carson College. In 2016, College Eight at UCSC was renamed to honor Carson,...
View ArticlePhoto | Visitors at Sunny Cove Beach soak in the twilight
A recent sunset paints the sky in pastel hues as visitors at Sunny Cove take a look at the Monterey Bay. Sunny Cove, also known as Johans Beach, “is at the end of Johans Beach Drive between 16th and...
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Gary Griggs, Our Ocean Backyard | More piers of Santa Cruz County
Before launching into more accounts of disappearing wharves or piers, I need to clarify terminology. Technically speaking, a wharf is a structure built parallel to the shoreline, allowing ships to dock...
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Cabrillo women come up short against state-ranked San Jose City | College...
SAN JOSE — The Cabrillo College women’s basketball team, coming off a 3-24 campaign last season, took on No. 10 state-ranked San Jose City for sole possession for first place in the Coast Conference...
View ArticleFocal Point | Eucalyptus trees in Watsonville, 1913
Several proud men standing by giant eucalyptus trees on East Lake Avenue in Watsonville, circa 1913. Eucalyptus trees were first brought to California in 1850, after the Gold Rush population explosion...
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Finding Sanctuary | Everybody can be great through community volunteering
Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary was established through political leadership and grassroot support from communities that span 276 miles of coastline adjacent to the sanctuary. That community...
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Santa Cruz City Council to consider ‘fair rate of return’ for landlords
SANTA CRUZ — At its Tuesday meeting, the Santa Cruz City Council will appoint new members to advisory bodies such as the Planning Commission and will also consider an ordinance that would give...
View ArticlePat Spencer scores 34, leads Santa Cruz past Salt Lake City in G League...
Golden State two-way guard Pat Spencer made four 3-pointers and scored a game-high 34 points in Santa Cruz’s 128-118 win over Salt Lake City in NBA G League action at Kaiser Permanente Arena on...
View ArticlePhoto | Temple Beth El hosts reading of writing by women
The sanctuary at Temple Beth El in Aptos is filled Friday night for “When a Woman Tells the Truth”, an evening of writing and creative work by women over 80. The event, hosted by Wilma Marcus Chandler...
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The quest for great wine grapes | Ross Eric Gibson, Local History
Vintner seeking the perfect grapes for the perfect wine. (Ross Eric Gibson collection)Pierre Sainsevain planted the first commercial orchard in Santa Cruz County in 1844. (Public domain)Wine label from...
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