COVID 2022

We’ve made it through another Monday, folks, and that’s music to my ears. Now if only we could get back to some of the real music we love. Thankfully my good buddy and local music aficionado Wallace Baine is offering up some hope to those of us who fondly remember late nights out at places […]

Happy weekend time, Santa Cruzans — we did it! It will be a nice few days to get outside and celebrate both the sunny skies and the cautiously sunny outlook for the local COVID-19 situation. As our Mallory Pickett ran through the county data today, as she does most days, there was little deviation from […]

We’re almost to Friday, folks, and a well-deserved non-rainy day! As we dry out a bit, we digest the mixed news delivered by county health officials on Thursday. The short version: The county is trending in the right direction as we hoped and suspected, but getting from the purple tier back into the red is […]

Hi, soggy Santa Cruz, I hope you’re surviving our most prolonged rain event of the winter. It didn’t prevent one of the county’s newest vaccination sites from ramping up, as you’ll read more about below. Nor did it dampen the news that COVID cases continued to decline in Santa Cruz County two days after news […]

Hey, it’s Tuesday night and the worst of the weather is yet to come. Don’t be reading this while driving on a wet road please! In our COVID Today reporting by Mallory Pickett, we learned that 340 vaccines were administered at the newly opened drive-thru center at the fairgrounds on a day when the state […]

Happy Monday night, folks: While we’ve got a concerning bit of weather on the way, we also received some very good news on the COVID front today. Though it’s not looking like a very good week for outdoor dining, our struggling establishments have at least gotten the green light via a move out of stay-at-home […]