Three years to the day after the fatal blaze off the Santa Barbara Coast, a federal judge in Los Angeles tossed an indictment of seaman’s manslaughter against Jerry Boylan, saying prosecutors hadn’t properly specified gross negligence on the dive boat captain’s part.
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Posted inK-12 Education
‘Our voices should matter in the present as well as in the future’: Academy trains high school students to participate in board meetings
The Santa Cruz County Office of Education launched a School Board Academy for Students this past summer with the aim of helping students understand how school boards function and training them on how to serve on boards as student trustees. Students and COE officials shared what they learned with Lookout.
Posted inPolitics & Policy
‘Extra gut punch’ no more: Children of fallen police officers like Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller will now get financial compensation
California Senate Bill 850 updates language to guarantee financial support for children of first responders who are killed in the line of duty, even if the parents aren’t married. The son and daughter of Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller and Faviola Del Real, along with the children of Santa Cruz Police Detective Elizabeth Butler, who was killed in 2013, will now be eligible to receive state compensation.
Posted inFood & Drink
Lily Belli on Food: Charting the local pie scene, compost-bin tips & seeking S.F. recs
Heads up, foodies: I’m now sending alerts every time I publish a story. Sign up for texts from me here. Thanks to those of you who’ve already subscribed and offered your thoughts! And catch up on my recent work here. … Pies dominate this newsletter’s headlines this week. First, the good news. Not for the […]
Posted inFood & Drink
The 2022 wine harvest arrives early, but winemakers expect another great year
Harvest time has come to the Santa Cruz Mountains — about three weeks earlier than last year. Winemakers debate why that might be, but all say they are optimistic about the quality of the 2022 harvest.
Posted inPolitics & Policy
The Boogaloo Bois have guns, criminal records and military training — now they want to overthrow the government
In an investigation first published in February 2021, ProPublica and FRONTLINE uncovered more than 20 members of the decentralized militia movement known as the Boogaloo Bois with ties to the military. One, former Air Force Staff Sgt. Steven Carrillo, is to be sentenced Friday in the 2020 shootout that killed Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s deputy Damon Gutzwiller.
Posted inLatest News
Steven Carrillo gets life in 2020 murder of Santa Cruz sheriff’s deputy Damon Gutzwiller
Former Air Force sergeant Steven Carrillo was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for his 2020 murder of Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Deputy Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller in a shootout in Carrillo’s hometown of Ben Lomond. “There can be no justice for what you have done,” Gutzwiller’s widow said in a courtroom statement addressed to Carrillo. “They could kill you a million times over and it would never be enough.”
Posted inFood & Drink
Building our green town squares: Nesh Dhillon talks growth, future of Santa Cruz farmers markets
Nesh Dhillon has managed Santa Cruz Community Farmers’ Markets for more than 20 years. In that time, he has ushered in an expansion of five thriving markets from Felton to Live Oak and the inclusion of the global ready-to-eat food now satisfying our appetites.
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Lily Belli on Food: Pizza Series update, apple-palooza in Felton and TikTok queasiness
Heads up, foodies: I’m now sending alerts every time I publish a story. Sign up for texts from me here. Thanks to those of you who’ve already subscribed and offered your thoughts! And catch up on my recent work here. … Earlier this year, I fell in love with Pizza Series’ Detroit- and New York-style […]
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We are different people, you and I, two years after the CZU fires
Any outdoor space with trees was good, and without trees was not so good, Wallace Baine writes of his thinking before the lightning storm of August 2020 that sparked the blaze that devastated parts of Santa Cruz County. Now, he can’t help but view them differently. And in the terrible aftermath, we’ve learned to honor people’s losses a bit more humanely.