Note: Please ignore today’s previous email as it was sent with an outdated subject line. Sorry about that! Good Morning! It’s Tuesday, Dec. 29. It’s going to be a partly cloudy day with a high of 57. This morning, we’re learning more about the life of Miri Villalobos, the 30-year-old Watsonville library volunteer who became […]
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‘We’re overwhelmed’: Watsonville nurses to demonstrate for second time this month
“We’re overwhelmed, and what we want is a better solution for those gaps in our staffing,” one nurse says. Hospital managers say they’re focused on treating patients and are declining to publicly respond to the unionized nurses’ claims.
Posted inVaccine Watch
Vaccinations begin for firefighters and skilled nursing facilities, continue at hospitals
There are a lot of unanswered questions about the COVID-19 vaccine and how it will be distributed in Santa Cruz County….
Posted inHealth & Wellness
Remote learning to continue at least until March, county schools chief expects
The latest news on government and politics, with a focus on how Santa Cruzans can take action.
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Morning Lookout: Stimulus bill signed, vaccine watch and more
The show must go on: the performing arts have been among the hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Cabrillo’s Dance,…
Posted inBusiness & Technology
Stimulus checks are coming. How much will you get and when?
New Leaf Community Markets brand manager Lindsay Gizdich said the store is moving from Pacific Avenue in order to have…
Posted inPolitics & Policy
21 for ’21: Jacob Martinez and the fine art of nest-building
If you build a solid nest at home, it’s a pretty good jumping-off point for building community nests far and wide. At least that’s how it’s played out for the innovator behind DigitalNEST, the organization seeking to establish Silicon Valley equity for underserved Latinx communities across the Bay Area.
Posted inK-12 Education
California school districts, charter schools to get $6.8 billion, in varying amounts, of federal aid
Title I funding formula will determine big differences in federal aid. In Santa Cruz County, for instance, Pajaro Valley Unified will get nearly double per student what Santa Cruz City Schools gets.
Posted inPolitics & Policy
Protesters form wall to protect homeless encampment at San Lorenzo Park; police stand down
The number of deaths in the county also went up by about 13% compared to last year, but homeless people died at more…
Posted inBusiness & Technology
What to do when ‘The Blue Mind’ is turned to gray by 2020?
Writer, biologist, and philosopher Wallace J. Nichols was living a charmed life until the pandemic took away his livelihood and the fires his family’s home up the ‘Slow Coast’ north of Santa Cruz. Rather than run from the pain of it all, Nichols chose to feel it — and of course write it.