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News Briefs | Published June 28, 2024

News Briefs
FEMA reimburses Santa Cruz County nearly $18M for Covid-related expenditures Reps. Jimmy Panetta and Zoe Lofgren helped secure federal funding from the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) to reimburse Santa Cruz County more than $17.7 million for emergency health and safety expenditures incurred as a...

Vehicle tax kept off ballot

Based on a narrow vote by transportation decision-makers, a $10 vehicle registration fee to pay for road improvements in Santa Cruz County will not be on the November ballot.

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Water company completes move

Santa Cruz County Board approves 2024-25 Proposed Budget

County of Santa Cruz
The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 on June 4 to approve the 2024-25 Proposed Budget, a comprehensive spending plan that addresses significant financial challenges while continuing to advance key strategic initiatives. Despite facing substantial fiscal constraints, including more than $100 million in...

Alex D. Ratliff July 6, 1992 – Jan. 8, 2012

Former Scotts Valley resident Alexander D. Ratliff, of Salinas, died Sunday, Jan. 8, from injuries sustained in an auto accident on Reservation Road near Marina. He was 19.

SLVHS grad reflects on tough year

SLVHS graduation
The morning of June 4 found San Lorenzo Valley High School Principal Jeff Calden back on the mic as he led the Class of 2021 through their graduation ceremony. After a year of hits and misses, Calden was thrilled to watch his charges stride...

County’s climate action plan will undergo update

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SANTA CRUZ COUNTY—The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors took the first step in updating the county’s climate action strategy, a response to global warming and its effects on infrastructure and the people who live here. Updating the County’s Climate Action Plan—first adopted in 2013—is...

Felton gas station reopens with face-lift

Felton once again has four places to fuel up.

Two projects to make routes to school safer

Thanks to a pair of grants awarded to the city of Scotts Valley by the state and the federal government, local students may have quicker, easier and safer ways to walk to school, as early as the end of 2012.

Woman falls to death from cliff following Highway 1 crash

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NORTH COAST—The 40-year-old Santa Cruz woman who fell to her death following a mysterious two-car crash Monday on the North Coast of Santa Cruz County has been identified as Wendy Edwards, according to Ashley Keehn of the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office. Investigators have...

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Scotts Valley graduate receives Teamsters scholarship

Violeta Dauksa of Scotts Valley has been named a recipient of a 2026 scholarship from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Scholarship Fund. Dauksa is a...