Greetings, one and all. Thursday, Feb. 19, is here, bringing Santa Cruz County more rain and possible thunderstorms through the morning, then gusty winds and temperatures dipping to near freezing in some areas overnight into Friday.
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Max Chun is up first with the story of a UC Santa Cruz computer science student who built a website able to track parking tickets issued in the city of Santa Cruz in real time. Third-year Ivan Kuria took his findings to the city, which has since made some updates to its software and boosted system security.
Lillian Schrock-Clevenger headed to Felton to take in the latest exhibit at the San Lorenzo Valley Museum, which digs into the history of the resorts that popped up throughout the valley after the arrival of the railroad in the 1800s.
In Lookout’s Community Voices opinion section, housing advocate and former Santa Cruz mayor Don Lane invites community members to join his UCSC class for a talk from Brian Barth, a journalist who’s written a book about homeless encampments amid the concentration of wealth in Silicon Valley.
The Thursday headlines also include a new police chief in Scotts Valley – let’s check it all out.
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Mapping 218,000 Santa Cruz parking citations: UCSC student tracked city’s parking tickets in real time
Third-year UC Santa Cruz student Ivan Kuria built a website that maps and tracks every parking ticket issued in the city of Santa Cruz, and also shows daily tickets going back years. Although the site no longer updates, viewers can still see daily maps of tickets issued between 2020 and Feb. 11. Max Chun reports.
San Lorenzo Valley Museum tells history of the area’s resorts in latest exhibit
Visitors to the San Lorenzo Valley Museum’s Faye G. Belardi Memorial Gallery in Felton can appreciate historic photos and souvenirs of the valley’s early vacation spots, made popular in the late 19th century by the arrival of the railroad in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Lillian Schrock-Clevenger takes us inside.
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May your Thursday be a good one – thanks for reading, and I’ll see you next time.
Will McCahill