PHOTO: Santa Cruz County's first baby of 2019
Veronikka Velez and Alejandro Rodriguez-Duarte of Watsonville welcomed the birth of their baby boy, Alexander Joseph Rodriguez, Tuesday at 1:03 a.m. at Dominican Hospital.
Testing comes to town
The County of Santa Cruz held a soft opening for a new Covid-19 testing site at Ramsay Park Thursday. The site will initially focus...
Church Christmas Tree Farms open for business
ROYAL OAKS—Last year, Church Christmas Tree Farms celebrated its 60th year. The family-owned business, now run by Glenn Church and his two sons, has...
Yamashita Market a beacon of Watsonville’s Japanese history
Editor’s note: This is the first entry of a weekly four-part series about the Pajaro Valley’s Japanese community. The series will culminate on Aug....
A visit to the moon
Thanks to technology local residents will get a taste of a moon visit in a portable planetarium that will come to Aptos Saturday.
Aptos High students helping preserve monarch butterfly population
Editor’s note: Evie Kinkead is a junior at Aptos High School.
For years, monarch butterflies in California have been endangered.
This is influenced by harmful pesticides...
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Special events
Heritage Holiday Craft & Gift Fair (Dec. 7-8)
The Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds Foundation invites you to the 42nd Annual Heritage Holiday Craft &...
PVHCD will seek partner to take over Watsonville Hospital’s day-to-day operations
This story has been updated from a previous version.
A cascading wave of fiscal challenges such as the election of President Donald Trump, his One...
Large housing development receives 2-year extension
WATSONVILLE—A 150-unit housing development off Ohlone Parkway received a two-year extension from the Watsonville City Council at Tuesday’s meeting.
The extension gives developer Lisa Li...
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...
