An appellate court has blocked the placement of Michael Cheek, a man diagnosed as a sexually violent predator, in a Bonny Doon home pending a ruling on the matter. A Santa Cruz judge approved of the placement in November but then issued a stay.
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The Top 6 Real Estate Trends You Need to Know About For 2022
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak unprecedented impacts on the housing market, there are several indications as to what the new year will bring for prospective buyers & sellers. Hear from Liz Kroft of Sol Property Advisors as she runs down what to expect from the Santa Cruz County real estate market in 2022.
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Act II for the Santa Cruz Food Lounge: Popular pop-up hub now in 11th Hour’s hands
With founder Andrea Mollenauer choosing to focus on teaching, she has turned to the brothers behind 11th Hour Coffee to take over the downtown commercial kitchen and event space — and Joel and Brayden Estby have big plans.
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BOLO Best Bets: Get all jazzed up as the calendar heads to February
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Pranksters, LSD and the Dead: Ken Babbs was there at Santa Cruz County’s most famous (or infamous) party
Ken Kesey, Neal Cassady and the crew immortalized in “The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test,” not to mention the band that became the Grateful Dead, got the party started at Ken Babbs’ Soquel digs. And it’s all in Babbs’ new book, which he’ll discuss in an upcoming Bookshop Santa Cruz event.
Posted inHealth & Wellness
Movie theater safety during COVID, the sequel: This time it’s personal
Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, do health experts and industry leaders have updated recommendations to make moviegoing safer? Spoiler alert: They do.
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A cup of kindness: how a chance meeting with a former NFL player transformed a UCSC student’s life
UC Santa Cruz student Tommy Alejandrez was living on the streets when he met former NFL player Zack Follett on a busy corner in Fresno. The meeting—over a cup of coffee—sparked a friendship that would change both of their lives.
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Wallace Baine: Drop the remote — the cure for our latest viral malaise awaits us right outside the door
Whether it’s the quality of the air on a hike in the redwoods, the high clouds and low angles giving the season’s light a unique character or a different tone in the ocean’s roar, getting out into our life-affirming Monterey Bay winter is a balm we’re lucky to have.
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Meat Loaf, thunderous ‘Bat Out of Hell’ singer, dies at 74
Singer and actor Meat Loaf, whose “Bat Out of Hell” album became a classic-rock staple topped only by his unlikely 1993 comeback, died on Friday at 74.
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BOLO Best Bets: Big art happenings, a new theater production and music to your ears
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