Scotts Valley city officials will begin reviewing library plans in early April and will seek bids from construction firms in early June, according to a preliminary timeline for the project. If all goes according to plan, the library will host its grand reopening in early 2022.
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Big riverfront development in downtown Santa Cruz withstands appeal, setting stage for construction
The California Coastal Commission found “no substantial issues” with the development, which will add 175 housing units, new commercial space, and public plazas to downtown along the San Lorenzo River.
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Attention Santa Cruzans, the summer of the big red ball is coming!
THE HERE & NOW: This June, Santa Cruz County will be the latest site for a public-art curiosity that’s been around the planet, delighting sightseers at every stop.
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Meet the local photographers who chronicled the traumas of 2020
The Santa Cruz photojournalists behind the dazzling new book ‘2020 Hindsight’ talk about their experiences in live virtual event Tuesday
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Santa Cruz Public Library branch projects are happening everywhere — here’s what we know about their statuses
The architecture firm hired by Capitola to design its new library made a critical mistake by setting the building too…
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Learning to breathe again: New book looks back at a painful year in Santa Cruz County
THE HERE & NOW: News photographers Shmuel Thaler and Kevin Painchaud’s images are the main attractions in ‘2020 Hindsight,’ a comprehensive look at how a community survived a traumatic year.
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Boulder Creek band releases album from the ashes of 2020, Watsonville Film Festival ready for its closeup
THE HERE & NOW: Besides the latest in music and movies, columnist Wallace Baine catches up with the Santa Cruz Mountains band Wolf Jett, winners of last year’s Clam Chowder Cook-Off, which went drive-up this weekend.
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What to make of the latest viral anti-mask video, this one at a Santa Cruz Trader Joe’s?
THE HERE & NOW: A year into the pandemic, we’re still seeing anti-maskers parade around in public spaces — like in a now-viral video at the Trader Joe’s in Downtown Santa Cruz. It’s yet another dangerous example of the division in our country, Lookout correspondent Wallace Baine opines in this column.
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Battle over 418 Pennsylvania Ave. rental development in Seabright ends with project approval
Developer Workbench got the Santa Cruz City Council’s OK on the project this week, despite complaints from neighbors about the trio of planned three-story units .
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The mad musical love that keeps on giving: Cello on a torched Bonny Doon hill latest ode to CZU fire victims
THE HERE & NOW: Love You Madly still raising funds and awareness on behalf of fire victims; Clam Chowder Cook-Off pushing through; UCSC’s African American Theater Troupe marks 30 years