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Santa Cruz County should try to save the Hirahara house

Longtime Santa Cruz resident Jill Yamashita laments the board of supervisors’ Aug. 5 choice not to preserve the Redman-Hirahara House outside Watsonville on the National Register of Historic Places. The house, she writes, was the first home owned by Japanese Americans in Santa Cruz County and has a storied history before and after World War II, when the owners were sent to internment camps.

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