Good morning, Santa Cruz County. It’s Friday, Oct. 24 – it’s expected to be a foggy morning, then partly cloudy in the afternoon with highs near 70F ahead of some rain on Saturday.
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Hillary Ojeda reports from Watsonville High School, where two students and a staff member were injured in a stabbing and related attacks on Thursday. Four students between ages 14 and 16 were arrested and face multiple felony charges, with police investigating any connection to a recent on-campus gun arrest.
Down the coast, Lily Belli takes us to Moss Landing to learn about a new culinary partnership. The Landing is a lunch and dinner spot from Post Ranch Inn veteran chef Todd Williamson and Capitola Vin Vivant sommelier Ryan Cooley. It officially opened this week in the Power Plant.
And speaking of power – there’s potentially good news for Mid-County residents who’ve been plagued by frequent outages. At a packed community meeting Thursday night at Seascape Resort, PG&E officials told frustrated locals that the utility expects to have the area’s local substation back online by Monday, with plans to reroute circuits away from heavily wooded zones north of Highway 1. Max Chun reports the changes should mean fewer and shorter outages for a community that has experienced regular blackouts since the summer.
Let’s take a look at the headlines.
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PG&E pledges fixes after Mid-County residents endure months of power outages
By Max Chun
Residents living in Mid-County just south of Aptos have been dealing with unreliable electricity for many years, but it’s been especially bad since the summer. At a community meeting on Thursday, Pacific Gas and Electric said that infrastructure updates that should make power much more reliable are expected to be done by Monday. Continue reading…
The Landing joins a growing number of modern seafood restaurants in Moss Landing
By Lily Belli
A quiet culinary revival is underway in Moss Landing, where chef Todd Williamson and sommelier Ryan Cooley have opened the Landing, a new lunch and dinner spot inside the popular Power Point Coffee building. With an adventurous seafood-forward menu and regional wines, the duo joins a fresh wave of restaurants bringing new life to the tiny coastal village after several longtime favorites closed. Continue reading…
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