Watsonville Community Hospital can now move forward after both Santa Cruz and Monterey counties certified election results showing the hospital’s $116 million bond measure passed with 68.04% of the vote. First priority is purchasing the hospital buildings and the land they sit on.
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Posted inRecreation & Sports
Santa Cruz Warriors’ season ends in heartbreaking 112-109 playoff loss to Stockton Kings
Thursday’s road playoff loss against the top-seeded Stockton Kings closes out what had been an impressive week for Santa Cruz, which had won three games since Friday to keep its season alive.
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Keeley proposes moratorium on new cannabis businesses in Santa Cruz amid Hook Outlet debate
On Tuesday, Mayor Fred Keeley will ask the city council to adopt a temporary emergency ordinance that would impose at least a 45-day moratorium on the establishment of new commercial cannabis businesses in the city of Santa Cruz. Keeley said the moratorium will give the city a chance to “step back” and study its existing cannabis laws around everything from dispensary distance from schools, tax rates and delivery laws, to security and licensure.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Weekender: First Friday fun, French opulence at Cabrillo & feting young poets
Santa Cruz County arts and culture get the Wallace Baine treatment.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Baine’s Nine: Nine necessary know-abouts for the week ahead in Santa Cruz County arts & entertainment, April 4-11
With the weekend nearly here, get your B9 shot in the form of Baine’s Nine, Wallace Baine’s recommendations for things to do around Santa Cruz County via Lookout’s BOLO events calendar.
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Morning Lookout: 18-story downtown proposal, rail trail rally, TEDx returns
Lookout brings you Thursday’s Santa Cruz County headlines.
Posted inEducation
TEDx returns to present a post-pandemic profile of the best of Santa Cruz County
For the first time since the pandemic, TEDx Santa Cruz will present a number of TED talks by local speakers to a local audience, presenting, consciously or not, a profile of what Santa Cruz County believes itself to be.
Posted inPolitics & Policy
Transit advocates protest as RTC delays discussion on contested stretch of Coastal Rail Trail
More than 70 rail and trail supporters rallied in front of the Santa Cruz County building on Wednesday to urge the board of supervisors to approve Segments 10 and 11 of the Coastal Rail Trail after the body failed to do so last week. Supporters are growing concerned that a $67.6 million state grant tied to the project could expire with more delays.
Posted inOpinion from Community Voices
Israel/Palestine: A Jewish elder’s journey
Octogenarian Sheila Carrillo remembers the joy, the promise of Israel, a new Jewish homeland, elicited in her Jewish family when she was a child. In 2016, her views on Israel shifted greatly after she started learning about the lives of Palestinians. Now she actively campaigns against the current war in Gaza and for Palestinian liberation.
Posted inHousing & Development
An 18-story building proposed downtown promises to be a project ‘Santa Cruz has never seen’
Clocktower Center would reach 192 feet, towering over all existing and proposed buildings in the city of Santa Cruz.
