Editorial | Capitola City Council heeds voters on trail
The unanimous decision by the Capitola City Council in a raucous, sometimes divisive, 4.5-hour session Thursday night to uphold a city law that precludes the coastal trail from veering onto city...
View ArticleDon Miller | Easter 2025: Rising from this world of broken dreams
I’m taking the liberty this Easter, as I have in previous years, to proclaim the message of hope. I’m fully aware many readers will either choose to move along or wonder why it’s even allowed in a...
View ArticlePhoto | Santa Cruz Dance Week takes it to the streets of downtown
Angela Gonzalez-Rojas was poetry in motion on the corner of Church Street and Pacific Avenue on Thursday as she performs with Centeotl Danza y Baile at the annual Dancing in the Streets in downtown...
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Eli Fitchen-Young breaks his own school record in CCS Top 8 Invitational win...
LOS GATOS — Whether Santa Cruz High senior Eli Fitchen-Young has a good showing or not at an out-of-town track and field competition, it has become a thing for his mom, Kim, to blare ABBA’s Dancing...
View ArticleSoquel baseball picks up another walk-off win | Local Roundup
Soquel High’s baseball team scored in the bottom of the seventh to pull out a 2-1, walk-off win over visiting Hughson in nonleague action Saturday. Jake Escalante and Brady Downs each had a hit, one...
View ArticlePhoto | Pride blooms over Main Beach
A Pride of Madeira (Echium candicans) flowers on the bluff above the San Lorenzo River mouth as a person makes their way on Main Beach. The plant, which is native to the island of Madeira, is a large...
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Marion Hollins: Champion of the people | Ross Eric Gibson, Local History
Marion Hollins driving a coach 4-in-hand, to raise money for Liberty Bonds. (National Archives and Records Administration) Marion Hollins marches in New York for suffrage in 1911. (April 1911 edition...
View ArticleWatsonville Earth Day festival highlights personal responsibility in...
WATSONVILLE — Much of the focus around helping the environment is centered around collective action, but there are individual things people can do to make a difference. These include turning off lights...
View ArticleWatsonville seeking public input on traffic study to reduce collisions on...
WATSONVILLE — Traffic collisions along Freedom Boulevard are a particular concern for the city of Watsonville. Between 2019 and 2023, there were 118 reported collisions, nine of which resulted in...
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‘The runners are coming’: Sharon Lokedi breaks Boston Marathon course record,...
BOSTON — A rider dressed as Paul Revere eased his horse up to the Boston Marathon finish line and proclaimed, “The runners are coming.” And down Boylston Street they came. In record time. With a...
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Albert, the white peacock of Boulder Creek, a symbol of resilience and peace,...
If they hadn’t see him with their own eyes, the folks who live in the upper forests of Boulder Creek would have been skeptical he really existed. He must have been a myth, a folktale. Who could imagine...
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Puppetry Institute opening new interactive adventure experience at Capitola Mall
CAPITOLA — Those who have played fantasy video games, or watched movies or read books within the genre, have more than likely wanted to experience firsthand the thrills of going on quests, navigating...
View ArticlePhoto | Straight to the Point
Surfers at Pleasure Point get in a few last rides as the sunset colors Loma Prieta peak and the southern Santa Cruz County landscape with a pastel palette. (Shmuel Thaler – Santa Cruz Sentinel)
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Photo | Working on the whale
Work has begun next to the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History to restore the iconic grey whale statue in Tyrrell Park on East Cliff Drive. Along with restoring the sculpture, first installed in 1982,...
View ArticleKen Hale | Join the grassroots protests on PG&E rate hikes
Jonathan Swift stated 400 years ago that “Politics, as the word is commonly understood, is nothing but corruption.” Mohandas Gandhi said, “There is sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for...
View ArticleWatsonville Hospital deficit spending less than $1 million for first time in...
WATSONVILLE — More than two years after it was returned to public ownership, Watsonville Community Hospital hosted its inaugural State of the Hospital to highlight significant budgetary gains and...
View ArticleQuick Bites | Live Oak Jack Rabbit fundraiser to feature food trucks
SANTA CRUZ Food trucks at family-friendly event The fourth annual Live Oak Jack Rabbit one-mile FUNdraiser Run and Student Art Contest celebration is at Shoreline Middle School (855 17th Ave.) from 8...
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San Lorenzo Valley High School junior Finn Maxwell is Santa Cruz County’s...
BOULDER CREEK — At just 16 years old, Finn Maxwell already has a major love of the written word. The San Lorenzo Valley High School junior has written short stories and poems, been published in...
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M.K. Contemporary Art Gallery exhibit commemorates 50th anniversary of Santa...
SANTA CRUZ — This year marks 50 years since Santa Cruz hosted its first Pride event to provide a spirited gathering space for LGBTQ+ individuals at a time when such events were largely relegated to big...
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Capitola breaks ground on Jade Street Community Center renovation
CAPITOLA — The first shovels had already plunged into the dirt earlier this month, but that hardly lessened Capitola Public Works Director Jessica Kahn’s enthusiasm at seeing some of the progress that...
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