We meet again, dear readers. ‘Tis Wednesday, July 16 – another mild day around Santa Cruz County, with post-marine-layer-burnoff highs ranging from the 60s at the water to around just 80 in the mountains.
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The Davenport Roadhouse is changing hands, and despite a tumultuous five years that includes the pandemic, CZU fire and devastating storms, the outgoing owners tell Lily Belli they wouldn’t change a thing.
Jessica M. Pasko has her Wednesday look around local business, this week leading with a unionization push at downtown Santa Cruz’s Woodstock’s Pizza, where a vote is set for the end of the month.
From Watsonville, Tania Ortiz has an update on the controversial “tiny village” homeless shelter, reporting that construction is set to begin next week. The 34 units are aiming to open by year’s end.
Hillary Ojeda caught up with a UC Santa Cruz physics professor who had a hand in bringing the world stunning deep-space images dubbed the “Cosmic Treasure Chest,” with Steve Ritz saying that the powerful new Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile will allow for unpredicted discoveries.
Former first lady Jill Biden is coming to Santa Cruz for a speaking engagement, and that’s also among a packed set of Wednesday headlines you’ll find below – let’s head that way now.
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‘We would 100% do it again’: As Davenport Roadhouse changes hands, former owners reflect on five years
After five turbulent years marked by the pandemic, wildfire evacuations and storm damage, Christopher and Vanessa Chamberlain are stepping away from the Davenport Roadhouse, passing ownership to undisclosed new buyers this week. Here’s more from Lily Belli.
UCSC prof’s work helps powerful new Vera C. Rubin Observatory capture secrets of deep space
UC Santa Cruz physicist Steve Ritz, who helped lead production of an image called the “Cosmic Treasure Chest,” says the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s unprecedented capabilities will spark discoveries scientists never imagined. Hillary Ojeda reports.
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