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Harbor’s historic season ends with sweep by Del Oro in NorCal playoffs opener...
Harbor High’s boys volleyball team created a listed of goals at the outset of the season and accomplished all of them. That helped take off some of the sting from its season-ending loss in the first...
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UC Santa Cruz’s Theater Arts gives a heartfelt performance of ‘Just Like Us’
During this season of graduations, with the school year slowly expiring behind us as verdant summer warmly waits around the corner, UC Santa Cruz’s Mainstage production of “Just Like Us” offers an...
View ArticleCalendar of Events | Steel Pulse celebrate 50th anniversary with stop at...
SANTA CRUZ Steel Pulse celebrate 50th anniversary with stop at Catalyst This year marks 50 years since Birmingham, England, reggae group Steel Pulse first performed, and they are touring to mark this...
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Soquel contingent eliminated from CCS singles, doubles tennis championships...
Soquel High tennis players Benja Bellito and Torin Miller, the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League doubles champions, suffered a 6-1, 6-3 loss to No. 4 seed Devin Stuppin and Marco Magnano of Saint...
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Ribbon-cutting ceremony to dedicate newly restored field at Freedom...
WATSONVILLE — For the past three years, the youth of the Pajaro Valley have had a newly restored field at Freedom Elementary School to play soccer. This Saturday, the new field will be officially...
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Coastal Rail Trail’s latest Santa Cruz segment opens to fanfare
SANTA CRUZ — Community members, local leaders and hundreds of Bay View Elementary students packed into La Barranca Park on Bay Street in Santa Cruz Wednesday morning for the official opening ceremony...
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Photos | Ceremony marks opening of Coastal Rail Trail segment in Santa Cruz
Bay View Elementary School students, teachers and chaperones cast shadows as they make their way Wednesday morning along the rail trail near the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Exploration...
View ArticleGuest Commentary | A message from a retired general to Vietnam veterans
By Michael Vane Selected excerpts from an April 26 speech by Lt. Gen. (USA retired) Michael Vane to the Hanford, CA, community: Welcome back Vietnam veterans. Thank you for putting your life on the...
View ArticleHome & Garden Digest
SANTA CRUZ Summer plant exchange at the Grange The Santa Cruz Garden Exchange is scheduled from 8 to 9 a.m. Saturday and will be held at the Live Oak Grange, 1900 17th Ave. At 8:45 a.m. the president...
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Tom Karwin, On Gardening | Alternatives to West Cliff Drive landscaping
Seaside woolly sunflower (Eriophyllum staechadifolium). This drought-tolerant perennial herb grows along the coast from Santa Barbara County northward to Oregon, as well as on the Channel Islands. The...
View ArticleMornings providing favorable conditions for anglers | Fish Rap
Nearshore rockfish are providing limits for local anglers in Monterey. The rocky coast and reefs between Point Pinos and Carmel has been very productive for reds, yellows, blue and black rockfish, plus...
View ArticleWatsonville Police Chief Jorge Zamora to retire in August
WATSONVILLE — After more than 30 years with the Watsonville Police Department, including three as chief, Jorge Zamora will be stepping down in August, city officials announced in a news release...
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Pajaro Valley Unified School District commemorates Harvey Milk Day with fifth...
WATSONVILLE — For the past five years, May 22 has brought a lot of familiar sights and sounds outside the Pajaro Valley Unified School District office, and Thursday was no exception. The day,...
View ArticleScotts Valley City Council reviews proposed budget
SANTA CRUZ — At its meeting Wednesday evening, the Scotts Valley City Council reviewed the city’s proposed fiscal year 2025-2026 budget and provided feedback. The presentation from city staff began...
View ArticlePhoto | Palm trees along West Cliff Drive silhouetted as the sun sets
Palm trees along West Cliff Drive are silhouetted during a recent sunset as seen from Main Beach. West Cliff Drive in Santa Cruz didn’t have a specific name until “Cliff Drive” emerged in the late...
View ArticleEditorial | Our convoluted rules on ‘affordable’ housing that isn’t affordable
Ask building developers and managers and they’ll tell you there’s never a shortage of lower-income renters seeking apartments, which make up a relatively small percentage of large-scale housing...
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Hilding ‘Tex’ Ronning, 1936-2025: Santa Cruz mourns loss of inspirational...
SANTA CRUZ — Hilding Earl Ronning, affectionately known as “Tex,” a nickname he adopted in his youth while riding horses in rural Kindred, North Dakota, made a Clydesdale-sized impact on those who knew...
View ArticleWebsite with new interface provides testing results from Moss Landing battery...
MOSS LANDING — A new data dashboard is now online and available to the public to track where environmental testing and monitoring have taken place across Monterey County and neighboring counties in...
View ArticleSanta Cruz Sentinel wins multiple California Journalism Awards
The Santa Cruz Sentinel won three awards competing in Division 3 of the 2024 California Journalism Awards put on by the California News Publishers Association. Contributing photographer Raul Ebio took...
View ArticleMonterey Bay Mariachi Festival sees expanded geographical reach in second year
APTOS — Last year, Cabrillo College hosted its first Mariachi Festival, showcasing the musical prowess of different age groups performing genres of music that are a vital part of Mexican culture. The...
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