Foundation offers plastic waste solutions for farmers
California Marine Sanctuary Foundation (CMSF) has advice for farmers who have accumulated huge heaps of used plastic, specifically used drip system tape and hoop...
Hazelwood Park gets mural uplift
A community project helped spruce up Hazelwood Park Mural on July 27 as part of the ongoing Watsonville Community Mural Paint Day.
Organized by Paul...
PVUSD restructures upper-level positions
When thousands of Pajaro Valley Unified School District students return to school on Aug. 14, they will likely meet their teachers, pick up armloads...
Photo story: roadwork for College lake pipeline project finished
A work crew hauls a large boring machine out of trench at Riverside Drive and Blackburn Street in Watsonville
Crews have finished the roadwork for...
Watsonville crew joins Park Fire
The Park Fire in northern California continues to burn in Butte, Plumas, Shasta and Tehama counties and is stacking up to be among the...
Students’ academic careers are adding up
Brianna Vasquez is a 13-year-old about to begin her 8th-grade year at Rolling Hills Middle School.
As the days of her summer vacation wane and...
Neighbors worry over village for homeless people
Residents of a Watsonville neighborhood are pushing back against a proposed housing project meant to help homeless people staying along the Pajaro River levee....
Trina Coffman-Gomez running for Watsonville City Council District 6
Four years after she left the Watsonville City Council, having served the maximum two terms, Trina Coffman-Gomez is again running for the District 6...
Watsonville clearing homeless camps along Pajaro River Levee
Watsonville city officials on Monday began clearing a sprawling unsanctioned homeless encampment along the Pajaro River that runs from Sakata Lane to Loughead Avenue.
The...
Growing roots at Pajaro Middle School
On Aug. 14, about 400 students will return to Pajaro Middle School, more than a year after flood waters forced the campus to close....
Aptos takes down Watsonville in battle of the ‘Black and Blue...
At one time in the teams’ long history, Aptos and Watsonville were nemesis on the gridiron as members of the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic...




















