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52nd Wharf to Wharf goes down to the wire | Running
CAPITOLA — The 52nd edition of the Wharf to Wharf road race lived up to its billing, and then some. Fresno’s Evert Silva surged past four runners over the finishing downhill stretch into Capitola...
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Photos | Wharf to Wharf sees large turnout
Jessica Gutierrez, of Fresno, enjoys a refreshing spray on East Cliff Drive near 26th Avenue courtesy of Phil Aug.in, who has sprayed water on grateful Wharf to Wharf participants for the past 14...
View ArticleAptos native Caspar Corbeau swims to eighth place in 100 breaststroke | 2024...
Swimmer Caspar Corbeau, an Aptos native competing for the Netherlands, took eighth place in 100-meter breaststroke final in the Paris Olympics at La Defense Arena in Nanterre, France, on Sunday....
View ArticleLetter | Support for restoring ethnic studies contract
We are members of SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice), which mobilizes white folks in service of racial and economic justice. As parents, teachers and community members within the PVUSD, we...
View ArticleLetter | Homelessness count easily manipulated
Although Santa Cruz claims that street homelessness has declined by 36% based on recent Point-In-Time counts, it seems that a good number of people can still be seen sleeping on sidewalks and in other...
View ArticleLetter | Struggles to complete SC rail-trail segment
Santa Cruz has been struggling to complete the rail trail Segment 7B, connecting Bay Street to the beach, .08 of a mile. Sometime back the City Council increased funding by 400% from $3 million to $12...
View ArticleLetter | Gaza: Both sides are suffering from trauma
If you want to talk about Oct. 7th you need to talk about Oct. 6th and the 76 years of occupation. The 800,000 Palestinians that where forced out of their home. And the thousands that where killed in...
View ArticleCapitola Highway 1 crash leaves driver with major injuries
CAPITOLA — A 51-year-old Watsonville man suffered major injuries Sunday morning when he crashed his pickup into a Highway 1 median guardrail and construction barrier and was knocked unconscious in the...
View ArticleMaking fetch happen: Capitola City Council voices support for off-leash dog...
CAPITOLA — Cooped up K-9s in Capitola are likely to soon have more opportunities to frolic freely in the open air. After almost an hour of public comment and deliberation at a recent meeting, the...
View ArticleSanta Cruz | Public hearing slated for Westside Village development
SANTA CRUZ — The city of Santa Cruz zoning administrator will hold a public hearing Aug. 7 for the proposed three-story affordable housing development on Almar Avenue near Safeway on Mission Street in...
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Punctured tire dooms Christopher Blevins’ medal bid | 2024 Summer Olympics
ELANCOURT, France — Christopher Blevins traveled to the Paris 2024 Olympics with all the right equipment to win the United State’s first medal in men’s mountain biking — or so he thought. Blevins...
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Reigning Olympic champion US falls to China in women’s volleyball opener |...
PARIS — The U.S. women’s volleyball team had a bad enough start in its Olympic title defense. It managed to keep it from turning into a disaster. The Americans lost the first two sets to China on...
View ArticleSF Giants reunite pair of struggling veterans with Braves in first trade...
Jorge Soler and Luke Jackson had, respectively, underperformed the contracts they received the past two winters to such a degree that each player was thought to be unmovable leading up to Tuesday’s MLB...
View ArticleEx-SLV star Jordan Beck to be inducted into Cal Poly-SLO’s Hall of Fame
Mount Hermon native and former San Lorenzo Valley High three-sport star Jordan Beck is one of seven former Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo student-athletes who will be inducted into the Mustangs’ Athletics...
View ArticleQuick Bites | New restaurant Food Talk opens next week in Santa Cruz
SANTA CRUZ Food Talk opens next week The restaurant Food Talk, opening on Aug. 7, will be located in Ulterior (upstairs from Motiv at 1209 Pacific Ave.). Chef Donnie Suesens, former owner/chef at Café...
View ArticleSanta Cruz | AAPI Cultural Festival returns for second year
SANTA CRUZ — Music, dancing, poetry and history will all be center stage at the 418 Project Sunday when the Asian American Pacific Islander Cultural Festival marks its return. The festival was...
View ArticleCabrillo College board seat vacant following Vega’s resignation
WATSONVILLE — Cabrillo College announced Monday that it is accepting nominations to fill the school’s Board of Trustees Area V seat vacated by Martha Victoria Vega, who has resigned according to a news...
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Photos | Santa Cruz County Fair’s Heritage Hog will be on display
Watsonville FFA member Irene Torres tends to Watson, the Santa Cruz County Fair’s Heritage Hog that Torres was awarded as the 2024 Watsonville High School Agriculture Department Student of the Year....
View ArticlePhoto | Renovation work begins at Ramsay Park in Watsonville
Grading has begun as the city of Watsonville begins construction of the Ramsay Park Renaissance Project. Following a 2020 community input process to develop priorities for the site the city has worked...
View ArticleGuest Commentary |‘Putting the cart before the horse’ with ultimate trail plans
By J. Ben Vernazza The ultimate trail and off-trail diversions as planned by the Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission are unsafe. The last amended Measure D (Ed. note: Measure D is a...
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