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Sunday Reads: Local theater at a crossroads, celebrating Jack O’Neill’s 100th & take our news quiz
Sunday Reads: Climate change video game, life after the Benchlands, trouble at the county fair
Sunday Reads: Local author’s latest, ‘Last of Us’ fungus downtown, debate over UCSC’s East Meadow
Sunday Reads: Bad Animal’s lofty aims, fairgrounds’ cloudy future and take our latest news quiz
Sunday Reads: Scotts Valley leans into Hitchcock, conquering deportation fears & our weekly news quiz
Sunday Reads: Thomas Sage Pedersen and Santa Cruz’s Black renaissance; Pizza My Heart goes to Washington
Sunday Reads: West Cliff ‘inflection point,’ worsening Highway 1 woes and riverfront dining
Sunday Reads: Redefining our Monterey Bay ‘home’; pesticide use; PCS pay dispute; Tyre Nichols
Civic Life
Newsom rolls back California drought restrictions after remarkably wet winter
Worry and suspicion reign as once-dry Tulare Lake drowns California farmland
Health & Wellness
End of the rainbow? California bill would ban sales of Skittles, other ‘toxic’ snacks
Why is this California Trader Joe’s pushing for a union? A rat infestation is only part of the problem
Health
Watsonville
Watsonville hospital board appoints interim CEO; search for new leader could take nine months
K-12 Education
California bill would require all public high schools to hand out free condoms
Watsonville Community Hospital CEO resigns; board to announce next steps Wednesday
COVID Today
COVID Dashboard: Santa Cruz County drops to ‘moderate’ transmission tier
Environment
Opinion from Community Voices
On Jack O’Neill’s 100th birthday, let’s celebrate ocean protection and education
Letters to the Editor
Letter to the editor: More government ‘push and pull’ needed to make climate-friendly choices easier and cheaper
Climate injustice is happening in Pajaro: It’s our moral obligation to fix the system
Death toll rises to 5 as wild California storm passes, leaving heightened flood risk
City Life
With Jewel prepared to take final bow, what’s the future of theater, other performing arts in Santa Cruz?
Food & Drink
Sampling Namaste’s Indian cuisine with a Bengali connoisseur
Coast Life
Brew Cruz rides again with Coffis Brothers collab
Get hip with the latest volume of Santa Cruz counterculture history