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.
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Posted inEducation
New PVUSD superintendent will ‘listen and learn’ before deciding on ethnic studies contract controversy
Incoming Pajaro Valley Unified School District superintendent Heather Contreras says she plans to do her due diligence on whether the district should reconsider a controversial decision not to renew its contract with a consultant who helped guide the creation of its ethnic studies curriculum. Many students and teachers say the district has taken too long to reconsider that decision.
Posted inBusiness & Technology
This week in Santa Cruz County business: REI employees’ union push, salmon decision day and East Cliff Village plans
REI is the latest among Santa Cruz County stores to move toward unionization, following recent efforts at local Starbucks, Jessica M. Pasko reports in her latest business roundup. Also included: when the local salmon fleet will hear about the upcoming season, development plans for the Live Oak farmers market’s current site, comings and goings and dates to save.
Posted inFood & Drink
Lily Belli on Food: Chef Majano’s welcome return, Palapas changing hands and Taste of Terroir
A taste of Santa Cruz County’s food and drink scene from Lily Belli.
Posted inHousing & Development
Santa Cruz County housing market heating up as spring and summer near
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.
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.
