Lookout food & drink correspondent Lily Belli highlights top events happening around Santa Cruz County in the coming week, plus more listings from Lookout’s BOLO events calendar.
Capitola & Soquel
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Beyond the slice: The best non-pizza dishes at pizza restaurants in Santa Cruz County
While researching the Santa Cruz County pizza guide, food and drink reporter Lily Belli discovered that some of the best local pizza chefs aren’t making just great pies, they’re rounding out their menus with clever and refreshing sides. Here are seven salads and appetizers worth seeking out.
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Santa Cruz pizza guide: Does our pizza-obsessed county have its own style?
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.
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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Capitola Wharf has soft opening as new features are added
The restored Capitola Wharf held a soft opening last week, a year and a half after a storm surge destroyed a large middle section. A community work day party is planned for Saturday, Sept. 7, to install extra features purchased through a fundraising campaign.
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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Overnight Highway 1 closures planned next week for ‘Whale Bridge’ work
Northbound lanes on a section of Highway 1 in Santa Cruz will be shut down overnight on Sunday and Monday this week, and southbound lanes shut down overnight on Tuesday and Wednesday to accommodate construction associated with a new bicycle and pedestrian overpass.
Posted inPolitics & Policy
Seven open seats in Santa Cruz County have no candidates. What happens now?
Seven local offices on the ballot in Santa Cruz County this fall drew zero interested candidates by the close of an extended filing deadline last week. Now, the districts and boards will begin public outreach campaigns to try to find someone to appoint to the seats, rather than be put before voters, before current terms expire.
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Eaters Digest: The Rollie at LG Meats Capitola
Lily Belli heads to Capitola Village this week for her recommended bite. Plus weekend food & drink events not to miss and news from Santa Cruz County and beyond that should be on your radar.
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Historic Los Gatos Meats brings signature sandwiches to Capitola Village
Los Gatos Meats & Smokehouse, one of the oldest butchers in Los Gatos, opened a second location in Capitola in May. At its new shop in the village, the family-owned business makes sandwiches to order using its signature tri-tip, pulled pork, turkey and sausages, and offers a selection of retail meats in its shop.