The spring and summer housing market is beginning to manifest in Santa Cruz, with the county seeing more than 20 more home sales in March than it did in February. It’s still a seller’s market, though, and buyers are working creatively with lenders and real estate agents to navigate the crowded and competitive market.
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Posted inOpinion from Community Voices
I went to Israel and the West Bank and came back with a message: Let’s build together and stop screaming at each other
Rabbi Paula Marcus, who leads Aptos’ Temple Beth El, just returned from Israel and the West Bank on a listening tour. She says she knows some have criticized her for not speaking out about the war in Gaza, but she wanted first to better understand how people experiencing the war on both sides are coping. She calls for a bilateral cease-fire and urges us to do what activists she met are doing: working together for peace.
Posted inPolitics & Policy
In the Public Interest: A big week for decision-makers up and down Santa Cruz County
The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors and city councils in Watsonville and Santa Cruz take on notable agenda items at Tuesday meetings. Christopher Neely previews it all, plus other news and notes from the local politics and policy scene, in his weekly newsletter.
Posted inPolitics & Policy
Big week in Santa Cruz County politics: E-bikes, West Cliff, cannabis and coastal property sale
Budgets, a vision for a one-way West Cliff Drive, a cannabis moratorium and e-bike restrictions: Political leaders at multiple levels of government in Santa Cruz County have their hands full this week.
Posted inLatest News
Highway 1 closure in Capitola on for this weekend
Work originally scheduled to shut down Highway 1 in March is on track for this Saturday evening into Sunday evening, shutting down the freeway between the Park Avenue and Bay Avenue/Porter Street exits.
Posted inEducation
TEDx returns to present a post-pandemic profile of the best of Santa Cruz County
For the first time since the pandemic, TEDx Santa Cruz will present a number of TED talks by local speakers to a local audience, presenting, consciously or not, a profile of what Santa Cruz County believes itself to be.
Posted inPolitics & Policy
In the Public Interest: How did Santa Cruz become the second California city to require pay equity for local competitions?
Santa Cruz County politics and policy news and notes from Christopher Neely.
Posted inPolitics & Policy
Board of supervisors fails to approve two sections of Coastal Rail Trail
With Supervisor Zach Friend recusing himself Tuesday, the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors deadlocked on the staff recommendation to approve Segments 10 and 11 of the Coastal Rail Trail, running between 17th Avenue in Live Oak and State Park Drive in Aptos.
Posted inEducation
‘Oh my God, that’s a beautiful bone!’ What a rare sloth fossil tells us about ancient Santa Cruz County
Last spring, when local paleontologist Wayne Thompson received a photo of an object that looked like a bone from Tara Redwood School students and their families, he wasn’t sure what to make of it. The object, an ancient sloth fossil, is making history.
Posted inPolitics & Policy
At event opposing Highway 1 expansion, Laird lauds Caltrans whistleblower for focus on transit alternatives
State Sen. John Laird introduced the Tuesday evening talk by Jeanie Ward-Waller, a former Caltrans official who says she was demoted for objecting to highway expansions. The event was in part a fundraiser for the Campaign for Sustainable Transportation, which earlier this week sued the state transit agency over Aptos Highway 1 widening.