Welcome to Lily Belli on Food, a weekly food-focused newsletter from Lookout’s food and drink correspondent, Lily Belli. Keep reading for the latest local food news for Santa Cruz County — plus a few fun odds and ends from my own life and around the web. Stay in touch with me by text throughout the […]
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Posted inOpinion from Community Voices
Letter to the editor: Let’s use the mayor’s bond to help people buy homes
New Leaf Community Markets brand manager Lindsay Gizdich said the store is moving from Pacific Avenue in order to have…
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Morning Lookout: Caring for unhoused pets, pickleball brouhaha and Barbara Lee visits Watsonville
Hula’s Island Grill in downtown Santa Cruz is donating Monday proceeds to Hawaiian relief operations through October,…
Posted inHealth & Wellness
Study: Dementia risk grows with increased exposure to air pollution — including wildfires, ag dust
Long-term exposure to fine particulate pollution could increase the risk of developing dementia, new research says, with exposure to pollution from wildfires and agricultural dust havingthe strongest ties to the prevalence of dementia.
Posted inFood & Drink
Hula’s, Pono join fundraising efforts in wake of devastating Maui wildfire
Hula’s Island Grill in downtown Santa Cruz is donating Monday proceeds to Hawaiian relief operations through October, while Pono Hawaiian Grill has partnered with Santa Cruz Surf Shop on a line of “Maui Strong” clothing.
Posted inRecreation & Sports
Uproar over ‘pickleball tax’: Players aren’t game for new app to reserve courts at Santa Cruz County parks
Santa Cruz County says that encouraging people to pay for and reserve time at pickleball courts through a new app will improve efficiency and access amid the sport’s booming popularity. Avid pickleballers aren’t convinced, saying that the old system worked fine.
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Lookout PM: Lily Belli on Food, a ‘pickleball tax,’ and Santa Cruz County’s mobile veterinary office
Santa Cruz County says that encouraging people to pay for and reserve time at pickleball courts through a new app will…
Posted inPolitics & Policy
Project Street Vet’s mobile veterinary office brings free care to pets of Santa Cruz’s unhoused
Although the Santa Cruz County branch of Project Street Vet has been operating for only about eight months, veterinarian Vanessa Padilla and her team of volunteers have provided care and essential medicine to nearly 80 pets of the unhoused community in the county.
Posted inOpinion from Community Voices
Could Dave have talked HAL into opening the pod doors if HAL was an advanced AGI?
Doug Erickson, Santa Cruz tech guru and founder of Santa Cruz Works, helps us understand artificial intelligence by taking us back to 1968’s cult classic “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Could that fictional scenario of machines taking over for people happen with today’s AI? He leads us through some scenarios.
Posted inRecreation & Sports
High school sports roundup: Sideline melee mars Harbor’s opening blowout of Santa Cruz
A scuffle that saw a pair of Harbor High School assistant football coaches ejected caused Friday’s rivalry game at Santa Cruz High to be called at halftime, with the Pirates winning 40-0. Elsewhere, Aptos and Soquel dropped their football openers, while Aptos and Harbor have found the winning track early in the girls volleyball season.