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Morning Lookout: Surf otter evades capture, big West Cliff condo plan clears hurdle & water solutions
Murry Schekman has more than 40 years’ experience in education, half of those in the Pajaro Valley Unified School…
Night-flying helicopters prepare to battle wildfire as heat wave bakes California
The Quick Reaction Force from the Los Angeles, Ventura and Orange county fire departments will be available 24 hours a day all year long.
West Cliff condo project can move forward after Coastal Commission denies appeal
Resident group Save Santa Cruz Westside had long lobbied against the proposed four-story, 47-foot tall mixed-use development with 89 residential units adjacent to the Dream Inn at 190 West Cliff Dr., arguing that it was inconsistent with the city’s land-use plan for the local coastal zone.
Pajaro Valley Unified appoints former teacher, administrator Murry Schekman as interim superintendent
Murry Schekman has more than 40 years’ experience in education, half of those in the Pajaro Valley Unified School District and most recently in the counselor education department at San Jose State University. He and his wife raised their three children in Watsonville, where he served as principal of Watsonville High School from 2006 to 2010.
Lookout PM: Microsoft’s new locally named default font, Weekender, and Santa Cruz’s feisty sea otter
Aptos is a sans serif font, which is designed to be easily readable and features letters that are simpler, with fewer…
Santa Cruz’s surfboard-stealing sea otter is still at large
The 5-year-old female southern sea otter has been exhibiting unusual aggressive behavior toward surfers over the past month around Santa Cruz’s renowned Steamer Lane surf break. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is searching for the animal to bring it into captivity, but as of Wednesday evening, agents had not yet secured the otter.
I went to Washington to talk about the looming crisis of water; here’s what I told Congress
We might be on the cusp of a breakthrough to help maintain water services for all, writes Rosemary Menard, director of the City of Santa Cruz’s water department, which provides water to all residents of the city of Santa Cruz. Or we might be unable to keep water affordable for everyone in our community and reinvest in our water delivery system. Menard went to Washington on May 31 to explain her plea for federal funding for Santa Cruz County and other California communities. Here, she explains what she said and why.
Aptos, Microsoft’s new default font, chosen for the community’s ‘widely ranging landscape and climate’
Aptos is a sans serif font, which is designed to be easily readable and features letters that are simpler, with fewer flourishes. Microsoft said Steve Matteson designed the typeface “with a slight humanist touch.”
Weekender: MAH amping Frequency back up, music by candlelight at Cocoanut Grove and trivia’s back
Hi friends, Your new vocabulary for this week must include “Barbenheimer,” a portmanteau of two completely unrelated upcoming summer movies, “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer,” that happen to share only a release date (next Friday, July 21). Why is this a thing? Maybe it’s because it ironically brings together two wildly different cultural ideas — a pink […]