Lookout’s correspondents look back on their most memorable reporting and photography of 2022 and what these stories and images mean to them.
Lookout Santa Cruz Staff
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Best of 2022: Lookout correspondents on our favorite stories colleagues wrote this year
Lookout’s correspondents look back on their colleague’s most memorable stories and videos of the year.
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Lookout PM: COVID cases drop, crab season commences and remembering Mas Hashimoto
Masaru “Mas” Hashimoto, who died in June at age 86, made it his mission to spread the word about what he and thousands…
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COVID Dashboard: Cases drop, but transmission level still high as Oakland reinstates partial mask mandate
News of the week Locally, COVID cases have declined over the past two weeks. The county recorded 801 active cases as of Tuesday’s update from the Santa Cruz County Health Services Agency. That’s 351 fewer than the previous update Dec. 15. No new deaths were reported locally, keeping the county’s pandemic death toll at 276. […]
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Read the full UAW UC Santa Cruz statement on the ratification vote
College campuses are supposed to be bastions of intellectual discourse and debate, but the war in Gaza underscores tense…
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Weekend weather: King tides peak – and a wet post-Christmas is on the way
King tides are unusually low and high tides that occur when the gravitational pull of the sun and moon are in alignment. Those forces came together this week when the king tides rolled in on Thursday. They peaked today across the Santa Cruz area, but will continue through Christmas Day.
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Lookout PM: Flu rivaling COVID, Benchlands clearing fallout, and new public school arts funding
As the national fentanyl crisis continues to reverberate in Santa Cruz County at record rates, killing 42 people in 2021…
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COVID Dashboard: COVID still surging, but flu proving to be a formidable rival
News of the week Santa Cruz County public health officials did not release an update Monday, though they did provide new data last Thursday. In that update, the Santa Cruz County Health Services Agency recorded 1,152 active COVID-19 cases; that’s 38 more than the previous Monday. No new deaths were reported locally, keeping the county’s […]
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Lookout PM: COVID cases jump, UCSC student grades withheld, SC sheriff to be subject to third-party oversight
Ahead of the grading deadline for fall quarter, UC Santa Cruz instructors and students say campus officials are working…
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COVID Dashboard: CDC data shows high community transmission in SC County, but mask mandate unlikely
News of the week Locally, COVID cases jumped substantially over the past week. The county recorded 1,114 active cases as of Monday’s update from the Santa Cruz County Health Services Agency. That’s 272 more than last Monday, a 32% weekly increase in cases. One new death was reported locally, raising the county’s pandemic death toll […]