The $2.5 million project to create 26 solar-powered carport canopies at Cabrillo College’s Aptos campus could save the school $6 million in energy costs over the next decade and as much as $15 million within 20 years.
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Lookout Update: Cabrillo College down to 85 suggested new names for school
A task force of Santa Cruz County community members has narrowed a list of 350 new names for Cabrillo College to 85, with three meetings left before it announces its top three to five choices to the public this summer.
Student Lookout: More baseball woes, tasty tamales and an A+ reboot
“There is absolutely a risk that is lessened by having Narcan,” one student told Lookout at a drive-thru Narcan…
Priced out of a UC dream school, he’s choosing community college instead. He isn’t alone
A growing share of low-income students admitted to the renowned University of California system are choosing community college instead as skyrocketing housing costs and insufficient financial aid put their dream campuses out of reach.
The ‘Hush’ homecoming of Santa Cruz’s jazz twin forces Pascal and Remy Le Boeuf
Remy and Pascal Le Boeuf have each carved out an impressive career as a composer, instrumentalist, band leader and teacher, including 2023 Grammy nominations for each. They reunite Thursday at Kuumbwa Jazz, a favorite haunt since their formative years.
Student Lookout: Vegan bites, stress relief recs and some mild film disappointment
UC Santa Cruz and the City of Santa Cruz have been embroiled in a lawsuit since February 2022 over UCSC’s plan to boost…
Student Lookout: Local empanadas, outdoor summer spots and a profile of a legendary basketball coach
UC Santa Cruz Professor Emeritus John Brown Childs teaches a course on transcommunality, his concept of peaceful…
Student Lookout: Baseball season, Narcan kits and is the hype surrounding ‘Skinamarink’ real?
With the reopening of Stagnaro Brothers and Firefish Grill, a Humble Sea pop-up, Makai’s island grog and a summer…
Chronicling a ‘miracle’: The quest to remember fading 1960s counterculture and its influence in Santa Cruz
The Hip Santa Cruz History Project is the brainchild of longtime UCSC professor Ralph Abraham and Cabrillo College teacher T. Mike Walker. They recently released Volume 6 in their “Hip Santa Cruz” series — essays, poems and more about the hippie era and its long aftermath in Santa Cruz, largely written by people who lived through it, to be released April 8 with a gathering at the Santa Cruz Art League.
Student Lookout: Pizza and trivia, Pajaro flooding and March to End Homelessness
Road closures and power outages have been a near-constant fact of life in the San Lorenzo Valley since the parade of…

