The climate pattern known as El Niño has officially begun and is expected to bring cooler, wetter winters to some regions of the United States. While the effects on the Central Coast are not as clear cut, Santa Cruzans likely won’t see any significant impacts until the winter months.
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Sunday Reads: Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s pivotal season, glassblowing adventures & cool treat downtown
The City of Watsonville, Santa Cruz and Monterey counties and a number of local and state agencies have been named in…
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Adventures of a beginner glassblower: At age 60, I’m putting hot irons in the fire — literally
Bridget Tapia is finding her post-retirement mojo with a new hobby right out of the Middle Ages: glassblowing. It’s dangerous, fiery and full of unexpected weirdness. “It’s as if someone turned up the heat on my retirement plans and threw me headfirst into a furnace,” she writes.
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With one foot in the past and another in the future, Santa Cruz Shakespeare presents a pivotal season of theater
“The Book of Will” opens the summer this week for Shakespeare Santa Cruz, with “The Taming of the Shrew” and “King Lear” to follow as the company marks a change of artistic directors, the return of a local acting legend and a renewed focus on expanding the audience for the Bard of Avon.
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Eaters Digest: Honey B Market’s cashew-milk soft serve
Lily Belli brings you her recommendations for what to eat in Santa Cruz County, along with a weekly guide to the most important food and drink events in the area. She’ll also point you to Lookout’s list of area food guides and the best in food news.
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Morning Lookout: Lawsuits coming over winter floods; Weekender and Corralitos wine
No need to trek all the way to those packed valleys up north when the Corralitos Wine Trail will lead you to world-class…
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A payment overhaul is coming to California child care, along with a 20% raise for workers
Child-care providers reached a tentative agreement with the state to raise wages and change the way California calculates subsidies for low-income families.
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Letter to the editor: Sentinel has an unhealthy obsession with the name ‘Cabrillo’
New Leaf Community Markets brand manager Lindsay Gizdich said the store is moving from Pacific Avenue in order to have…
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Watsonville, Pajaro residents send warning shot as winter flood lawsuits against governments appear imminent
The City of Watsonville, Santa Cruz and Monterey counties and a number of local and state agencies have been named in claims made by hundreds of residents on both sides of the Pajaro River, according to the Los Angeles-based firm representing them; those claims are a precursor for a potential mass-action lawsuit.
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Lookout PM: Eaters Digest; Watsonville and Pajaro winter flood lawsuits imminent
Lily Belli brings you her recommendations for what to eat in Santa Cruz County, along with a weekly guide to the most…