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Falcons eliminated by No. 8 Homestead in D-IV semifinals | CCS baseball
MONTEREY — Scotts Valley High’s baseball team played solid defense, biding time for its offense to break through against Homestead in the Central Coast Section semifinals on Wednesday. With each...
View ArticleCoast Line | Santa Cruz County to host its annual career fair
SANTA CRUZ County to host annual career fair on May 30 The County of Santa Cruz invites the public to the fourth annual County of Santa Cruz Career Fair from 4-7 p.m. May 30 at the County Governmental...
View ArticleCharters head north for bigger fish, quicker limits | Fish Rap
In Santa Cruz, most charter boats are heading north towards Año Nuevo and Franklin Point for the best fishing. Up there, it’s quicker limits and bigger fish. Most reported caught are blacks, gophers...
View ArticlePajaro Valley school board approves $315 million bond measure for November...
WATSONVILLE — A $315 million bond now rests in the hands of voters in the Pajaro Valley for the November general election. The Pajaro Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees voted unanimously...
View ArticleSeymour Center ‘Think Ink’ workshop to discuss intersection of art and...
SANTA CRUZ — Those who attend Saturday’s workshop at the Seymour Marine Discovery Center will get hands-on lessons in nature and using art to discuss issues facing the environment. The event will...
View ArticleHome & Garden Digest
LIVE OAK Spring on over to garden exchange, garden tours Join fellow gardeners for the free monthly Santa Cruz Garden Exchange from 8 to 9 a.m. Saturday in the parking lot of Santa Cruz Live Oak...
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Tom Karwin, On Gardening | The matrix planting model
Scarlet Coyote Mint (Monardella macrantha). This is the only Monardella with red flowers, found in the Santa Lucia Range of Monterey County. Other species of the genus have white to lavender flowers....
View ArticleColumnist offers tips to commencement speakers on economics | Jeffrey Scharf,...
It’s college graduation time. Commencement speakers from President Biden to Jerry Seinfeld doled out pearls of wisdom to the leaders of tomorrow. Given the astounding economic illogic displayed by many...
View ArticleSanta Cruz Warriors named G League Franchise of the Year
For the third time in the past four years, the Santa Cruz Warriors was named the G League Franchise of the Year. The Warriors’ affiliate has now won the distinction four times since the award began in...
View ArticleWater, wildfire protection measure headed for November ballot in Santa Cruz...
SANTA CRUZ — A ballot measure aimed at raising millions in local funding each year to bolster Santa Cruz County’s resilience to climate change impacts will go before voters in November. A...
View ArticlePhoto | Touch-a-Truck event celebrates city services in Santa Cruz
From left, Eli and Ryan Berry with their father David drive remote control forklifts on Wednesday alongside Santa Cruz Fire Chief Rob Oatey’s children Cass and Saoirse at Santa Cruz Public Works...
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Pro-Palestine strike, encampment continue at UC Santa Cruz
SANTA CRUZ — At the base of the UC Santa Cruz campus Thursday, union student workers, researchers and postdocs participating in the stand-up strike organized by UAW Local 4811 occupied area on one side...
View ArticleGuest Commentary | Why Pride Month shows religious values
By Susan Thistlethwaite Harrison Butker, the kicker for the Kansas City Chiefs, has stirred up a lot of controversy, not only for telling women to, in effect, go “back to the kitchen” like the good ole...
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Santa Cruz’s offense unable to back Morgan Toohey in brilliantly pitched D-V...
SAN JOSE — Santa Cruz High pitcher Morgan Toohey turned in a big-league performance on the home turf of one of the San Francisco Giants’ minor-league affiliates Thursday. Sadly for the Cardinals and...
View ArticlePhoto |‘Of Love and Revelation’ exhibit opens at MAH in Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz artist and curator Shelby Graham levels her 25 “fragment” cyanotype installation at the Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz this week as “Of Love and Revelation: Learning Photography...
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Museum of Art & History exhibit highlights Filipino American stories
WATSONVILLE — The stories of Filipino Americans who made their homes in the Pajaro Valley in the early 20th century, and the challenges they faced, are not commonly taught in U.S. history courses, but...
View ArticleFood Bin development appeals hearing set for Tuesday
SANTA CRUZ — Two appeals opposing the proposed five-story mixed-use development at the current site of the Food Bin and Herb Room at 1130 Mission St. in Santa Cruz will be considered by the Santa Cruz...
View Article‘Just feathers and bones’: Santa Cruz County pelican crisis slowing, but far...
SANTA CRUZ — For weeks, hundreds of starving California Brown Pelicans have been turning up weak and disoriented on beaches in Santa Cruz County and much of the state with experts unable to offer a...
View ArticleCivil lawsuit by ex-UC Santa Cruz employee alleges sexual assault, retaliation
SANTA CRUZ — A civil complaint filed by a former UC Santa Cruz employee this week claims university leadership protected another employee accused of sexual assault. According to Wednesday’s Santa Cruz...
View ArticleCounty trio set for CIF State Track and Field finals Saturday | Local Roundup
Soquel High senior Jonelle Scott was one of 12 athletes to qualify for the girls’ pole vault final at the 104th CIF State Championships at Buchanan High in Clovis at Buchanan High on Friday. Scott...
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