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Morning Lookout: Arana Gulch’s cows, UCSC phone seizure case, Pebble Beach Food & Wine takeaways
Santa Cruz County news and opinion headlines from Lookout for the morning of Tuesday, April 15.
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Tuesday evening traffic: Highway 1 incident, Watsonville hit and run today
Tuesday traffic trouble spots around Santa Cruz County.
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Ask Lookout: Why are there cows in Arana Gulch?
A curious reader asked Lookout why cows graze at Arana Gulch, a city-owned park north of the Santa Cruz Harbor. The search for an answer led to a group tasked with saving an endangered species.
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Judge delays hearing in UCSC protester phone seizure case as supporters pack courtroom
UC Santa Cruz student Laaila Irshad is asking a Santa Cruz County Superior Court judge to quash a search warrant that gave UCSC police full access to her cellphone. Her lawyers spoke to Lookout about the status of their petition Monday.
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Pajaro Valley nonprofits launch public forums about federal funding cuts
The Pajaro Valley Collaborative — a group of 23 nonprofits in south Santa Cruz County — is launching a series of educational public forums to inform the community about federal funding cuts and possible local impacts. The group’s first news conference will be held on Tuesday at 11 a.m. at the Watsonville city plaza.
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Capitola’s crisis over rail offers a warning that could affect us all – don’t representatives have to listen to voters?
Gayle Ortiz, owner of Gayle’s Bakery & Rosticceria for 47 years and a former Capitola city councilmember, worries that a plan backed by the Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission to divert sections of a trail from the historic rail corridor and onto public streets bypasses voters’ Measure L wishes. She sees this as a violation of trust that has repercussions for all voters. “This isn’t just a Capitola issue,” she writes. “If the RTC can pressure a city to violate its own voter-approved law, it sets a dangerous precedent for the entire county.”
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Lookout PM: Pajaro levee homicide, closing downtown streets to cars, Sea Dubs players join the Golden State Warriors’ playoff run
Welcome to Monday evening’s edition of Lookout PM. Be sure to sign up for our breaking news email alerts here and take advantage of our breaking news texts by signing up here. Closing a street to cars may feature in Santa Cruz City Council downtown economic plan later this month Each week for nearly the past year, a […]
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Homicide investigation opened into death of Watsonville man found buried at Pajaro River levee
Monterey County detectives identified a body found on the Pajaro River levee as Jesus Alfonso Durate Figueroa, 36, of Watsonville. A Monterey County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson said the cause of death is still being investigated, but are treating the case as a homicide.
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Motorcyclist arrested on firearms charges after crash in Capitola
A motorcycle crash in Capitola on Saturday led police to arrest its rider for carrying a loaded handgun, police said.