When the city of Santa Cruz told Chris Castelli she could not renew her lease for the bait shop and walk-up restaurant she had run for six years on the wharf, she bid “ciao” to Santa Cruz and “buongiorno” to Felton.
Volunteers county-wide turned out for the annual Coastal Cleanup Day on Saturday, Sept. 15, pulling trash and recyclables from Santa Cruz County’s waterways and beaches as part of a statewide conservation effort.
With September nearly halfway past, Scotts Valley and the San Lorenzo Valley are once barreling toward winter, a typically damp and dark season under the trees and at the bottom of the canyons of our communities.
A 4-foot cross made of first-growth redwood has been permanently placed on the Ben Lomond roadside where local resident Joanna “Asha” Veil, seven months pregnant, was found murdered in 2006.
The way Americans vote has changed in many ways in 60 years, as voting machines, electronic counting systems and new registration methods have been introduced. But one thing has not changed: Since 1952, Connie Adkins has been at polling places to greet voters.