Santa Cruz County is home to more than 70 places to buy pizza, and can boast a higher pizza-per-capita ratio than New York City and Chicago. Our little coastal community’s pizza obsession is rooted in California culinary history, but modern chefs are putting their own spin on things with local ingredients and fresh takes on regional styles. Local pizza makers weigh in on whether Santa Cruz has developed its own style.
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Posted inHousing & Development
Ask Lookout: What are the big wrapped units near Seventh Avenue and Brommer Street?
It’s difficult to keep housing developments in Santa Cruz County straight these days, so if you saw wrapped-up modular homes on the lot at Seventh Avenue and Brommer Street, you might have thought yet another development was preparing for groundbreaking. Not quite, but it is the delivery of housing units for a long-planned Soquel project aiming to serve homeless veterans, youth emerging from the foster care system and a limited number of families.
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Aptos students ‘shaken’ by head-on crash of school bus
A school bus carrying 43 students from Aptos High School and Aptos Junior High was struck head-on by a Kia Forte in Watsonville Tuesday morning, injurying a student and the driver of the Kia. Affected students are being offered counseling, according to an official with the Pajaro Valley Unified School District.
Posted inEducation
Aptos High School student named to Pajaro Valley school board
Daniel Esquada, a 12th grade student at Aptos High School, will be appointed by the Pajaro Valley Unified School District board of trustees Wednesday as a student trustee.
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Carmageddon: FEMA pause not affecting current Santa Cruz transportation projects, but some caught in funding ‘limbo’
Santa Cruz public works projects haven’t been affected so far by FEMA’s temporary pause on nonemergency disaster relief funding. However, some of the projects dealing with damage leftover from the 2023 winter storms are in limbo — including coastal armoring and a short segment of the Coastal Rail Trail.
Posted inEducation
Santa Cruz County school districts will ask voters to borrow millions for repairs, workforce housing
On this November’s ballot, five school bond measures, totaling $525 million, propose making infrastructure repairs to roofs and athletic fields, modernizing classrooms, and in some cases, building rental apartments for staff and teachers. District leaders talked to Lookout about some of the major projects the bond measures, if approved, would fund.
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Man killed in Aptos car crash was Cabrillo College student and football player
The 23-year-old man killed in a car crash on Freedom Boulevard last weekend has been identified as Luke Salem of Santa Cruz — a former Harbor High School student and Cabrillo College football player.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Weekender: RIP Greg Kihn, SC Shakespeare going strong and channeling your inner SpongeBob
The weekend is nearly here, and Wallace Baine is serving up recommendations, news and notes from Santa Cruz County arts and entertainment.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Baine’s Nine: Nine necessary know-abouts for the week ahead in Santa Cruz County arts & entertainment, Aug. 15-22
With the weekend nearly here, get your B9 shot in the form of Baine’s Nine, Wallace Baine’s recommendations for things to do around Santa Cruz County via Lookout’s BOLO events calendar.
Posted inFood & Drink
Laurie Love on Wine: Lester Estate’s home-run wine dinner, new Aptos vineyard and Big Sur Food & Wine on the horizon
Lookout’s wine expert details a memorable Taste of Terroir event, checks in on the local wine grape harvest as it draws ever closer and compiles news, notes and events from around Santa Cruz County’s wine scene in her latest column.