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.
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Summer guide: Your top events in the Santa Cruz summer
From music, beer, art and wine festivals to an array of entertainment at the Beach Boardwalk, ambitious productions on local stages and annual traditions like the Wharf to Wharf race, summer options are virtually endless in Santa Cruz County (and beyond).
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Baine’s Nine: Nine necessary know-abouts for the week ahead in Santa Cruz County arts & entertainment, June 27-July 4
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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Mountain Charlie nightmare: Santa Cruz Mountains residents isolated by road failures still seeking answers
Since Feb. 29, Mountain Charlie Road, which stretches toward the northern boundary of Santa Cruz County, has been cut off by a major landslide. Despite desperation from residents, county, state and federal officials have until now offered few solutions – and a fix could take three to five years.
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Fireworks-free Fourth fun: Your guide to celebrating Independence Day in Santa Cruz County
The Fourth of July in Santa Cruz County won’t have fireworks, but it’s heavy on parades and community celebrations, from Boulder Creek to Watsonville.
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Laurie Love on Wine: Five decades of Mount Eden chardonnay, La Posta’s big old bottles and Salamandre’s Shoemaker retires
Laurie Love recounts her recent tasting of 12 vintages of Mount Eden Vineyards chardonnays going back to 1986, has a dispatch from a “Cru Night” in Seabright and celebrates Wells Shoemaker as he closes down Aptos’ Salamandre Wine Cellars. She also notes the passing of Napa pioneer Warren Winiarski and previews upcoming local wine events in her biweekly column.
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Drinking water of a million Californians fails to meet state requirements
Almost 400 suppliers, two-thirds in communities of color, don’t meet California’s water safety and reliability standards. The report lists four water systems serving Santa Cruz County residents in the “failing” category, including the financially troubled Big Basin Water Company.
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Camping ordinance iced as Santa Cruz County wildfire fears grow
Hearing a public desperately concerned about increasing wildfire risk, the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to stall a proposal that would have expanded camping opportunities on private property throughout the county.
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Fast internet? New funding promises it to hundreds in rural Santa Cruz County
Some $45 million in state funding will help with infrastructure upgrades in the Santa Cruz Mountains, South County and elsewhere as California aims to get 98% of households broadband internet access by 2032.
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In the Public Interest: Can a policy that increases wildfire risk be a good policy?
Inside Santa Cruz County politics and policy with Lookout correspondent Christopher Neely.