Happy Monday, friends,
I hope everyone had a good weekend. If you ran the Wharf to Wharf, then I hope you’ve recovered enough to make today bearable. It’s July 28, and we’re looking at clear skies with highs in the mid-70s — can’t ask for much better than that.
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Tania Ortiz reports that ICE agents notified Santa Cruz Police of their presence in the city seven times this year. Ortiz previously reported that immigration agents have visited Watsonville at least eight times since President Donald Trump took office.
Gwyneth Holcomb on a mysterious piece of public art that appeared on an abandoned phone booth on Ocean Street. Holcomb solved the mystery and talked to the local poet behind the project. But the story has a surprise twist.
Hillary Ojeda talks to one of the professors leading a new partnership between UC Santa Cruz and UC Davis to launch a medical program, aiming to address physician shortage in Central California. The partnership brings UCSC one step closer to its dream of one day opening its own medical school.
I have the latest on the Murray Street Bridge project, where the east harbor access road will be closed until January. That said, you can still access the harbor businesses by foot or bike — it will just take a little longer.
And Wallace Baine reflects on his chance meeting with Tom Lehrer, reclusive musical satirist who famously abandoned stardom for academia. Lehrer died Saturday at 97.
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ICE agents visited Santa Cruz at least 7 times since January, SCPD records show
On seven occasions this year, The Santa Cruz Police Department has received advanced warning from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers operating within city limits, according to records provided by the department. Continue reading…
On Ocean Street, an abandoned phone booth found new life as a poetry project. Then it vanished.
Armed with poetry and disguised as workers, three Santa Cruz artists secretly converted a forgotten phone booth into a shrine for grief. No one noticed, until authorities quietly removed the unauthorized installation. The project raised questions about modern disconnection and the boundaries between public art and private infrastructure. Continue reading…
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