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Eastside / Live Oak / Pleasure Point Neighborhood Brief for Wednesday, July 10
EASTSIDE / LIVE OAK / PLEASURE POINT NEIGHBORHOOD BRIEF. Good morning! It’s July 10 — here’s what’s going on in your community today…. Clouds giving way to some sun in Eastside / Live Oak / Pleasure Point. Today will be cool; low clouds and fog this...
Watsonville City Council to consider podiatry care center
WATSONVILLE — The Foot Doctors of Santa Cruz County, a Santa Cruz-based business that specializes in podiatry services, is seeking to expand its footprint — so to speak — in Watsonville by opening a space at the former Wells Fargo building in the Pajaro Hill Commercial Center.
Hip-hop comes to Cabrillo Stage: Local musical theater makes a generational pivot
In most things in the realm of arts and culture, there comes an inevitable moment when one dominant generation and its style and preoccupations suddenly gives way to another emerging generation with a much different style and set of preoccupations. That moment has arrived at Cabrillo Stage. The popular summer...
Breastfeeding Support for All
August is National Breastfeeding Awareness Month. World Breastfeeding Week is August 1-7, with the theme, Closing the Gap: Breastfeeding Support for All. Mark your calendars now, to participate in upcoming activities next month. Recognition for Employers – Just thinking about leaving a little one to go back to work can...
Santa Cruz Mountain residents face high fire danger
BOULDER CREEK, Calif. (KION-TV) -- Residents in Boulder Creek are on high alert as excessive heat watch and fire danger continue in the county. The county of Santa Cruz issued an excessive heat warning that started on Tuesday through today, prompting many to stay alert and safe during the high temperatures. As fire danger excels
Pre-sale tickets available for Santa Cruz County Fair
WATSONVILLE, Calif. — The Santa Cruz County Fair has announced that special pre-sale tickets and ticket packages are now available for the public to purchase. Pre-sale tickets cost less than tickets at the gate, with special ticket packages including deals on admission, parking and carnival wristbands. Buying pre-sale carnival wristbands will save you $5.
‘The land was reset, it’s barren’: In fire-scarred Santa Cruz Mountains, Boulder Creek man survived mostly on water for 10 days
Instead of birds chirping, Lukas McClish woke up to two or three black hummingbirds trying to get into his hair every morning while he spent 10 days lost in the woods near the Santa Cruz Mountains. McClish, a 34-year-old man from Boulder Creek, was reported missing on June 16 after...
Gov. Gavin Newsom commends CHP officers involved in 2020 Ben Lomond firefight for valor
BEN LOMOND — On a summer Saturday afternoon, two Santa Cruz County-based California Highway Patrol officers were among those who responded to a call for “shots fired” and soon found themselves locked in a firefight for their life on a remote mountain road. Four years later, CHP...
Photo | Metal whale sculptures added to overcrossing of Highway 1
Traffic flows on the Soquel Avenue Frontage Road in Live Oak under metal whale sculptures that have been added to the bicycle and pedestrian overcrossing of Highway 1 currently under construction at Chanticleer Avenue. According to Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission Communications Specialist Shannon Munz, “The whales were designed...
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