The California State Parks Foundation invites park visitors and photographers of all ages and skill levels to snap shots of the natural beauty, recreational activities and diverse landscapes of California’s state parks through its photo contest. Submissions are open now and run through Sept. 30.
Sarah Cobos
Sarah Cobos, an incoming senior at Soquel High School, is a newsroom intern at Lookout Santa Cruz.
Being interested in a career in writing and having won the 2025 Lookout Santa Cruz Journalism Scholarship, Sarah is very excited to get a taste for the happenings of journalists at a local paper. Also having grown up in Santa Cruz, she is excited to be apart of keeping an informed community.
In her free time, Sarah enjoys painting, crafting, reading, writing, and going on long beach walks.
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Santa Cruz author Bridget Lyons talks nature-human intersection in Bookshop event
Local author Bridget A. Lyons will discuss her new book, “Entwined: Dispatches from the Intersection of Species,” on July 22 at Bookshop Santa Cruz.
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Santa Cruz’s Grey Bears joins Monterey Bay Fisheries Trust Community Seafood Program
Grey Bears, a nonprofit serving older Santa Cruz County adults through healthy food distributions and community programs, is partnering with Monterey Bay Fisheries Trust as a new member of its Community Seafood Program.
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Former first lady Jill Biden to speak at Santa Cruz’s Kaiser Permanente Arena
Former first lady and longtime educator Jill Biden is coming to Santa Cruz to speak at Kaiser Permanente Arena on Sept. 27 at 7 p.m.
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UCSC-based Dickens Project hosts Victorian-themed Curiosity Gala
Dress up in your best Victorian attire for the Curiosity Gala, an event to support The Dickens Project, an academic consortium headquartered at UC Santa Cruz that researches English writer Charles Dickens and his contemporaries.
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Moran Lake faces changes to better protect monarch butterfly habitat from damaging winds
Researchers identified areas of Moran Lake where trees are particularly vulnerable to damage from storms, along with areas that needed better wind protection for monarch butterflies. Crews have cut down trees and are planning a series of changes around the lake.
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Soquel man killed in e-bike crash near Watsonville identified
The California Highway Patrol has identified Robert Rieber, 78, as the Soquel man killed in an electric bike crash outside of Watsonville on Wednesday afternoon.
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Santa Cruz’s Stripe welcomes artist Rhia Hurt for its July exhibition
An exhibition in which artist Rhia Hurt explores contemporary abstraction through evocative surfaces, associative color relationships and material experimentation is happening now at Stripe in downtown Santa Cruz.
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Scotts Valley hosts Family Fun Day at Skypark on July 19
Parks & recreation agencies from across Santa Cruz County converge on Scotts Valley’s Skypark on Saturday, July 19, for activities including touch-a-truck parking lot, bounce houses and obstacle courses, plus face painting, food trucks and games.
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Santa Cruz Public Libraries hosting anime workshops with former ‘Simpsons’ artist
Santa Cruz Public Libraries invites local artists of all abilities from ages 12 to 18 to join two free “Anime Your Way” drawing workshops with former “The Simpsons” artist Carlos Nieto III on Sunday at the Aptos and downtown library branches.