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Weekender: Peggy Townsend’s new novel, Marcus poetry reading, Kafkaesque comedy at UCSC Ms. Blue is coming down — what happened to Seymour Center’s iconic whale skeleton and what’s next After a career as a high-profile journalist, Santa Cruz’s Peggy Townsend is living the novelist’s life I don’t want to lose my south of Laurel home and hotel to a new Warriors stadium — here’s my solution Shasta County ditched its Dominion voting machines. Now residents are braced for turmoil on Nov. 7

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Upcoming events in Santa Cruz County

SATURDAY 11/11
Apple-Palooza @Farm Discovery at Live Earth
Cloe Hubbard @Steel Bonnet Brewing Company
James Durbin: Unplugged @Veterans Village
Noah Gundersen @Felton Music Hall
Lowdown Brass Band @Moe’s Alley

SUNDAY 11/12
Sip & Stroll @Capitola Village
Fall Wine Walk @Downtown Santa Cruz
Grateful Sundays with Matt Hartle & Friends @Felton Music Hall
The Lacs @The Catalyst
Gene Luen Yang | “The Books Of Clash Volume 2″ @Bookshop Santa Cruz

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Wallace reports and writes not only across his familiar areas of deep interest — including arts, entertainment and culture — but also is chronicling for Lookout the challenges the people of Santa Cruz...