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The Monterey Bay Greenhouse Growers Open House, now in its eighth year, is a chance for the public to get an insider’s view of the goings-on of an industry that is a significant portion of the Pajaro Valley agriculture.

The annual World Wetlands Day will kick off the Watsonville Urban Forest Revitalization Project, which, over a two-year period, will add 300 trees and hundreds of drought-tolerant native shrubs at 10 park sites and three street corridors.

Four people were arrested Sunday afternoon after allegedly taking part in a robbery and shooting at a residence on the 20 block of Rancho Road, Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Sgt. Chris Clark said Monday.

Miguel Cahero is a successful, 35-year-old with a burgeoning sales career at Watsonville Chevrolet and plans to get a real estate license.

If there were any doubts about how the community would respond to Watsonville’s first fireworks show in many years, those worries were quickly vanquished Tuesday night.

The Pajaro Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees on Wednesday approved a pilot program to use locally produced, clean-burning fuel in two of its vehicles. If the month-long test is successful, the district will consider using the fuel in all its busses and trucks.

The Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve has begun work to restore 61 acres of lost coastal salt marsh in the Elkhorn Slough.

A group of community members came together late Tuesday morning at the Watsonville Public Library to discuss the state of health in Santa Cruz County.

The American Cancer Society got a major boost from Watsonville this weekend when the annual Relay For Life at Watsonville High School raised nearly $60,000.

The Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency sees College Lake, located between Highway 152 and Paulsen Road, as an opportunity to help balance the valley’s over-drafted groundwater basin.