1440 Multiversity Opens
It’s a holiday weekend. The beds are made. The silverware is polished. The windows are clean. The sidewalks are swept. The refrigerators and kitchen cabinets are full. The first guests arrive today.
ELECTION 2016: Measure D still too close to call
Measure D, which would levy a new half-cent Santa Cruz County sales tax to fund $17 million a year in transportation improvements, hovered just above the two-thirds margin required for approval this week.
Comedy Corner: Men and their blades
About 10 years ago, there was an advertisement on TV for the then-new Gillette Mach3 razorblade. It showed a beefed-out guy shaving his face, wearing nothing but a towel, while admiring himself in the bathroom mirror, just as a jet fighter plane flew overhead and a supermodel ran into the room and touched his face.
Local Gal Gets Paralyzed, Makes Good
A whole new world opened up for me on August 26. I am now a person with a spinal cord injury on an adventure! Over the past three weeks I had surgery and moved on to rehab, then to ‘nobody knows where.’ Right now I’m almost completely numb and paralyzed below the waist.
Mr. Boynton’s Neighborhood
It’s the little things that count… For Mr. Rogers it was the little children of all nationalities, tall ones, short ones, children who were born without blemish and those who were born with disabilities of all kinds. These are the children that were important to Fred Rogers.
Forty years of Santa’s Shelves
Events of the past few weeks force everyone to ask – What can we do? Who do you call if you have an emergency? How safe are we?
Sports 2015
These are photos of some of last year's sports events. We'd like to thank all the wonderful contributors to our sports coverage, especially Paul Firenzi, whose photos are always highlights of our sports section.
SVUSD: on planning for a parcel tax measure
The pain of preparing to cut eight full-time equivalent teaching positions in the Scotts Valley Unified School District (SVUSD) next year seemed to make the “rubber hit the road” in planning for a parcel tax measure on the November ballot , according to District Superintendent Tanya Krause.
News Briefs | Published Sept. 12, 2025
Fun run, emergency preparedness fair set for Saturday
On Saturday, Sept. 13, the City of Santa Cruz will be hosting Race the Wave, a 3K...