Santa Cruz Actors’ Theatre premieres grim new play ‘Lucky Time’
The Actors’ Theatre is located inside the Santa Cruz Art Center on the edge of downtown, and when you arrive, chances are you will have to walk a few blocks from your parking spot through this liminal...
View ArticleArt Seen | Master guitarist William Coulter and trio to hold concert...
Guitarist William Coulter plays his guitar this week as the waves crash along West Cliff. Coulter, an internationally recognized master of the steel-string guitar who lives in Santa Cruz, will be...
View ArticleCalendar of Events | Film on Santa Cruz surfer Shawn ‘Barney’ Barron to...
SANTA CRUZ Rio to premiere film on late innovative surfer Many surfers have left their marks on Santa Cruz’s beaches, but one who really shined was Shawn “Barney” Barron. The Santa Cruz High School...
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Filmmaker to premiere new doc on late local surfing innovator at Rio Theatre
SANTA CRUZ — With its abundance of beaches and waves that can reach some pretty large heights, it is no surprise that Santa Cruz has developed its own surfing culture for more than a century. Many...
View ArticleWatsonville City Council approves changes to cannabis equity program
WATSONVILLE — During its regular weekly meeting on Tuesday, the Watsonville City Council voted 5-2 to approve amendments to the Watsonville Municipal Code regarding the city’s cannabis equity program....
View ArticleSanta Cruz County Animal Shelter temporarily closing Watsonville location due...
WATSONVILLE — The Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter is temporarily closing its Watsonville location through at least Tuesday due to confirmed cases of canine parvovirus and feline panleukopenia, the...
View ArticleHarm Reduction Coalition of Santa Cruz County reapplies for syringe exchange...
SANTA CRUZ — A local community-based organization has submitted documents to launch a program aimed at drug-related harm reduction in Santa Cruz County, and time is running out for the public to...
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Santa Cruz City Council approves Downtown Density Bonus program
SANTA CRUZ — At its meeting Tuesday, the Santa Cruz City Council approved a program that attempts to limit the size of developments in the city’s proposed Downtown Plan Expansion project and considered...
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Photos | Westlake Elementary School students enjoy educational journey aboard...
O’Neill Sea Odyssey instructor Itzel Chavarria works with Westlake Elementary students on a marine science project during their recent cruise. (Shmuel Thaler - Santa Cruz Sentinel)James Smith’s...
View ArticleGuest Commentary | Be part of the solution to our affordable housing crisis...
By Tim Willoughby and Linda Kerner California has been grappling with an affordable housing crisis for years. Although the state has passed many laws to reduce barriers to create more housing, for...
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Santa Cruz distance runner Evie Marheineke commits to UCLA
SANTA CRUZ — Santa Cruz’s Evie Marheineke, one of the top distance runners in Archbishop Mitty High history, will extend her academic and athletic careers at UCLA. The Monarchs senior announced her...
View ArticleHome & Garden Digest
LIVE OAK Seed celebration at the garden exchange Join the Santa Cruz Garden Exchange for a seed celebration at 8 a.m. Saturday. October is the perfect time to sow wildflowers. Discover a variety of...
View ArticleGuest Commentary | Pajaro Valley Federation of Teachers supports liberated...
By Rebecca Royston and six others The Pajaro Valley Federation of Teachers stands by our endorsement of Carol Turley and Gabriel Medina for the Pajaro Valley Unified School District board of trustees,...
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Tom Karwin, On Gardening | Building a garden bed
Hooker's Evening Primrose (Oenothera elata ssp. Hookeri). This member of the Evening Primrose plant family (Onagraceae) grows along the coast between San Francisco and San Diego and northern Baja. It...
View ArticleWatsonville Rotary Club hosts Pajaro Valley Unified School District board...
WATSONVILLE — With less than two weeks until Election Day, candidates continue to get out on the road and make pitches to voters in any avenue they can. That includes candidate forums like the Pajaro...
View ArticleNew, hardier BCycle docks to arrive in Santa Cruz by end of year
SANTA CRUZ — Amid a wave of vandalism and theft that has taken hundreds of BCycle bicycles and docks offline in recent weeks, a Santa Cruz transportation official said a temporary solution is ready to...
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More guilty pleas in statewide ‘Operation Sticky Fingers’ retail cannabis...
SANTA CRUZ — An additional three men implicated in the statewide “Operation Sticky Fingers” retail cannabis theft case pleaded guilty to charges Thursday. California Attorney General Rob Bonta, third...
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Dolphin Restaurant razed, Santa Cruz Wharf repairs underway
SANTA CRUZ — The Dolphin Restaurant, which has called the Santa Cruz Wharf home for more than 50 years, was demolished bit by bit Wednesday to make room for necessary repairs to the damaged south end...
View ArticlePhoto | Sunrise streaks the sky with color above Santa Cruz
Thursday’s approaching sunrise streaks the sky over the Monterey Bay in a cacophony of vibrant color as a motorist drives down the Miramar Drive hill in Santa Cruz.
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St. Francis rallies past Scotts Valley with second-half surge | High school...
APTOS — St. Francis High football players had every reason to hang their heads in key league battle against Scotts Valley on Thursday night at Cabrillo College. Instead, the Sharks elected to show...
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