In-person visits that were first halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic have resumed at Santa Cruz County’s women’s jail on Blaine Street in Santa Cruz.
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New generator will equip San Lorenzo Valley emergency center
The Highlands Park Senior and Community Center of San Lorenzo in Ben Lomond has received $15,000 from Pacific Gas & Electric to purchase and install a generator that will allow it to remain open during power outages. It’s part of a plan to make the center a place where residents can gather in emergencies.
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Invasive shothole borer beetle found in Felton area
The Santa Cruz County Department of Agriculture and the University of California Cooperative Extension are alerting the public to a “confirmed infestation” of the shothole borer beetle along Zayante Creek south of Graham Hill Road in Felton.
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Job fair will be held Thursday at Boardwalk’s Cocoanut Grove
One of Santa Cruz County’s longest-running annual job fairs will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 10, at the Cocoanut Grove at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk at 400 Beach St.
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Soquel High School welding teacher wins $50,000 prize
Laurie Hilderbrand, a welding teacher from Soquel, has been named a winner of the 2024 Harbor Freight Tools for Schools Prize for Teaching Excellence, which comes with $15,000 prize for her and $35,000 for her program at Soquel High.
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UC Santa Cruz braces for Gaza protests on Oct. 7 anniversary
Today — Monday, Oct. 7 — is the first anniversary of the terrorist attack on Israel and the ensuing war in Gaza. Protests are expected on the campus of UC Santa Cruz, five months after police broke up a large encampment of protesters and arrested 122 people. It comes as the University of California system has promised a zero-tolerance policy toward encampments and any protests that block access to campus roads or buildings.
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Sunday Reads: Downtown Santa Cruz death; the iconic Ralph Abraham; Zayante fire ballot measure; protesting Panetta’s Israel stance
SUNDAY READS Oct. 6, 2024 Man dies after falling from Palomar Inn onto crowded downtown Santa Cruz sidewalk Police shut down a swath of downtown Santa Cruz Saturday after a man fatally fell from a window at the Palomar Inn onto a busy Pacific Avenue. The death remains under investigation. Read more here from Christopher […]
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Stretch of southbound Highway 1 will close Monday night
Southbound Highway 1 will close at Park Avenue from 11 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7, to 6 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 8, to accommodate work on north and southbound auxiliary lanes and bus-on-shoulder improvements between the Bay Avenue/Porter Street and State Park Drive interchanges.
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Santa Cruz County launches dashboard to track damaged roads
Santa Cruz County’s Department of Community Development & Infrastructure has launched a new dashboard for tracking and seeing the progress of repairs to county-maintained roads that have been damaged by severe storms over the past nine years.
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Seniors will rally against Live Oak school bond issue
Representatives from local seniors organizations are rallying Thursday afternoon in Live Oak against a school district bond measure that would fund the development of workforce housing. They fear it will displace senior services. Live Oak School District is asking voters to approve the $45 million bond measure – Measure N – so it can develop 14 to 25 units of housing for district staff.