Tag: news briefs
News Briefs | Published Jan. 26, 2024
Civil rights activist to share ‘This Bright Light of Ours’
Just weeks after the brutal 1965 “Bloody Sunday” attacks in Selma, 19-year-old Maria Gitin joined...
News Briefs | Published Jan. 19, 2024
Elections clerk to provide update at League of Women Voters event
Santa Cruz County elections clerk Tricia Webber will update the community on the March...
News Briefs | Published Jan. 12, 2024
Arrest made in Santa Cruz County freeway shooting
Detectives assigned to the California Highway Patrol’s (CHP) Coastal Division Investigative Services Unit, working in partnership with...
News Briefs | Published Jan. 5, 2024
Art History lecture features discussion on Cerveteri
The first Art History lecture of 2024, sponsored by Dante Alighieri Society of Santa Cruz, will feature “Cerveteri:...
News Briefs | Published Dec. 22, 2023
Board approves sales tax measure for March ballot
Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Dec. 5 to place a half-cent sales tax measure...
News Briefs | Published Dec. 8, 2023
Highway 35 near Bear Creek Road reopens to through traffic
Highway 35 near Bear Creek Road in the Santa Cruz Mountains has reopened under one-way...
News Briefs | Published Dec. 1, 2023
Spring Lakes Park Choir to put on three Christmas performances
Spring Lakes Park Choir will have three Christmas performances open to the public at The...
News Briefs | Published Nov. 17, 2023
New federal funding announced for local Head Start programs
U.S. Reps. Jimmy Panetta and Zoe Lofgren have announced new federal funding for Head Start and...
News Briefs | Published Nov. 10, 2023
MBARD announces Spare the Air program
Starting Nov. 3, the Monterey Bay Air Resources District (MBARD) will begin announcing wintertime Spare the Air alerts for...
News Briefs | Published Nov. 3, 2023
Supervisor attends White House executive order event on AI
Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors Chair Zach Friend participated in a White House executive order...
Despite high temps and pile-burning setbacks, fire officials aren’t worrying just yet
Scott Weese, a division chief with Cal Fire CZU, spends plenty of time pouring over forest-fuel-environment maps and briefing safety crews on weather conditions.
The...
