After Wallace Baine went looking for whether the part of Santa Cruz east of downtown should be called “Midtown” or…
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Lookout PM: High school sports roundup, the future of Watsonville Community Hospital, and ‘Zoom bombing’ public meetings
Soquel High will be the No. 2 seed in Division II of the Central Coast Section football playoffs, while Scotts Valley…
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Sunday Reads: Readers on Midtown/Eastside, Adam Spickler’s coming-out story & wine wisdom
New pop-up Pizza Bones wants its customers to eat the whole pie. Chef Desmond Schneider and owner Jacob Wilkens have…
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I am the first male, openly trans person elected to public office in our state; this is my coming-out story
Nov. 13-19 is national Transgender Awareness Week, and in a Community Voices opinion piece, Adam Spickler, a Cabrillo College trustee and one of only four openly transgender people to hold elected office in all of California, shares their coming-out story. Adam wishes when they were growing up in the 1980s and 1990s that they had transgender role models.
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Morning Lookout: Cabrillo trustee probe, Boulder Creek water woes, poppin’ pizza and wine of the week
Big Basin Water Company, a private utility in Boulder Creek, had been plagued by problems for years before a prospective…
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Laurie Love on Wine: My Wine of the Week and a lesson on fermentation
In the second installment of this week’s column, Lookout wine expert Laurie Love reveals her pick for Wine of the Week and goes behind the scenes of the winemaking process in her Wine 101 lesson.
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Lookout PM: A unique pizza pop-up, Cabrillo trustee probe, and Boulder Creek’s water troubles
A Cabrillo College committee investigating complaints of inappropriate and offensive language on trustee Steve…
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Court-appointed receiver pledges stability for troubled Big Basin Water Co. after potential buyer backs out
Big Basin Water Company, a private utility in Boulder Creek, had been plagued by problems for years before a prospective new owner abruptly backed out of a deal to purchase the company late last month. Big Basin’s court-appointed receiver told a packed community meeting Thursday that it is working to provide consistent drinking water, secure funding for essential repairs and find a potential buyer for the troubled utility.
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Morning Lookout: Seymour Center whale skeleton dismantling, novelist’s latest & downtown building fears
Joe Quigg owns the Pacific Blue Inn south of Laurel Street in downtown Santa Cruz and was horrified to see a model of…
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Los Gatos ‘party mom’ indicted on 63 counts, including endangering and intoxicating children
Shannon O’Connor, the Los Gatos “party mom,” was charged with 20 felony and 43 misdemeanor counts. Felony charges include endangering or injuring the health of a child and the misdemeanors include selling alcohol to minors; O’Connor was also alleged to have rented a cottage in Santa Cruz for her son’s birthday in early October 2020.