Few essential workers have been hit harder by the pandemic than grocery store workers, who worked all through the lockdown. Now as cases drop and vaccine supplies run low, these workers are unsure when they will get inoculated. Adding to the stress is a political battle over granting grocery workers “hero pay.”
Pandemic Life
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Fred the Fighter: How comic spirit stays alive for this five-time cancer survivor from Santa Cruz
THE HERE & NOW: Beloved comedian and writer Fred Reiss has beaten back cancer five times, but he knows the real enemy is not illness or death, but despair. “You gotta let go of this idea that you don’t deserve this,” he says.
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What to make of the latest viral anti-mask video, this one at a Santa Cruz Trader Joe’s?
THE HERE & NOW: A year into the pandemic, we’re still seeing anti-maskers parade around in public spaces — like in a now-viral video at the Trader Joe’s in Downtown Santa Cruz. It’s yet another dangerous example of the division in our country, Lookout correspondent Wallace Baine opines in this column.
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PHOTOS: Armed with a camera, a young ER doctor captures the faces of the COVID war
New Leaf Community Markets brand manager Lindsay Gizdich said the store is moving from Pacific Avenue in order to have…
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Get inspired by these ‘people in the pandemic’ by signing up for our free Lookout event this evening
Between medicine, religion, education, wellness and comedy, we’re anticipating a lively discussion about the challenges of pandemic life in which you’ll be able to ask questions via Zoom chat. Additionally, we’ll have the latest update on the status of COVID-19 locally.
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Yale student learning from Watsonville home reflects on inequities as parents work in fields
New Leaf Community Markets brand manager Lindsay Gizdich said the store is moving from Pacific Avenue in order to have…
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Waiting for showtime: When, where and how will live music return to Santa Cruz?
SPECIAL REPORT: Santa Cruz’s famously diverse and buzzing live-music scene has been in deep hibernation. Club owners and music producers are confident it will emerge from the pandemic slump, but when, how, and what it will look like remain open questions.
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More Dream Inn ‘vertical concerts’ coming up, new poet laureate and more
THE HERE & NOW: The Dream Inn looks to recapture the magic of a crazy Halloween experiment; the life and legacy of Jory Post to be celebrated; Cali Roots kicks the can down the road; the county has a new poet laureate; food trucks forever
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‘Absolutely essential, especially now’: Year-round farmers’ markets a steadying force
Santa Cruz County’s winter farmers’ markets provide ‘arguably a safer shopping environment,’ one proprietor says. But they also tie together a healthy community of like-minded people who strongly believe in their essential-ness amid the pandemic.
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‘It’s changed who I am’: The life of a Santa Cruz County nurse in the pandemic
The pandemic has taken a toll on Dominican Hospital ER nurse Kirsten Palmquist and her family. Long days. Endless streams of patients. Surges on top of surges. But she is steadfast in her commitment to her calling.