Santa Cruz County Local News

Santa Cruz Warriors forward Javan Johnson finished with a season-best 22 points in a 121-118 overtime loss to the Valley Suns at Mullett Arena on Thursday night.

Santa Cruz Gives is the brainchild of Jeanne Howard former publisher of Good Times weekly. It's a local crowdfunding site where people can support many local good deeds and projects in one spot. Guests are Karen Delaney and Leslie Lee of the Volunteer Center, one of the partners in Santa Cruz Gives. The conversation ranged from the role of nonprofits in safety net and arts programs to the huge need they fill in creating a livable community. KSQD is one of 63 nonprofits raising funds on the site which provides organizations with local matching funds proportionately to the number of donors and dollars raised.
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A proposal to build 157 homes on Graham Hill Road near Rollingwoods Drive has several hurdles to clear. (Jesse Kathan — Santa Cruz Local)
SANTA CRUZ >> A controversial proposal for 157 new homes on Graham Hill Road faces an uphill battle in part because of water and sewer challenges, county authorities said this week. A court case that disputes the ownership of the land could be another hurdle.

Live Music Santa Cruz! Here’s the weekend roundup for December 5 through December 8, 2024! Enjoy!

The season is still very young, yet one can’t help to notice that Watsonville is playing some formidable basketball coming out of the gate to begin the 2024-25 winter campaign.

By Peter Thomas with Julie Horner

The Santa Cruz emergency services issued a tsunami warning for Thursday afternoon and retracted it hours later.

 Reading and Interpreting Your Electricity Bill
A Talmudic Exegesis
On Sustainability Now! Sunday, December 8th, 2024, 5-6 PM on KSQD
You probably receive an electricity bill every month from your local utility and, after complaining about it, dutifully pay it.  But do you ever stop to read your electricity bill?  If you are a customer of PG&E and, maybe, a local community choice aggregator, you receive 6 pages of unintelligible, closely-spaced text, numbers, graphs and acronyms.  As Groucho Marx might have said, “This is so simple, a PhD could read it.  Run out and find me a PhD!”
Join host Ronnie Lipschutz and Kevin Bell on Sustainability Now! when we offer “A Talmudic Exegesis: Reading and Interpreting Your Electricity Bill–A Talmudic Exegesis:.”  You will learn why your local utility pays a wholesale price of only about 3 cents per kilowatt hour for renewable electricity while charging you 50 cents!  You’ll learn about PCIA, which is not a small animal but, rather, the “Power Charge Indifference Adjustment.”  And you’ll find out why your bill seems to be rising ever upward and why the newly-announced fixed charge, due to show up on your bill next year is unlikely to make it stop rising.
That’s on Sustainability Now! Sunday, December 5th, 2024, from 5-6 PM right here on community radio for the Monterey Bay Region, KSQD 90.7 FM in Santa Cruz, KSQT 89.7 FM in Prunedale, our translator for Monterey at 89.5 and KSQD.org, streaming on the internet.
You can find a handout here, to be followed along with the broadcast: A Guide to Reading your Electric Bill.
You can find a definition of terms here and here

Don Coolman offers his discovery for maneuvering in traffic, both on the highway and the sidewalk.
Photo courtesy of Sunami.

Fridays 10-Midnight, King Dubb Presents The Phonk Show – funk, jazz, reggae, RnB, neo-soul and dance/party music for the funkateers!
Catch it live or listen on demand via our two-week archive. Available in the app or at KSQD.org

By Catie Cadge PhD

By Catie Cadge PhD

Watsonville police assist firefighters at a structure fire at the Resetar Residential Hotel Wednesday afternoon on Main Street at West Lake Ave.

Watsonville police assist firefighters at a structure fire at the Resetar Residential Hotel Wednesday afternoon on Main Street at West Lake Ave.

The County’s contract with 4Leaf is set to expire at the end of the year. The project management firm has been providing building permit assistance to residents who are rebuilding after experiencing loss or damage to their homes after the CZU fire. The Planning department will resume all Recovery Permit Center services by January 1, 2025. 3rd District Supervisor Justin Cummings said, "Residents have expressed concerns about this transition and whether service continuity, consistency, and timely guidance can be maintained by the County without this third-party buffer. We're working to ensure the County focuses on providing individualized support to survivors through closer collaboration and coordination with the Long-Term Recovery Group (LTRG)." The LTRG was formed after the fire to provide private resources and governmental agency support. The County will retain a contract with 4Leaf as a third party plan checker should they not have the resources to address permits in a timely manner.

Scotts Valley junior Brooklyn Williams had little to no trouble getting back on track in Tuesday night’s regular season-opener against visiting Pacific Grove.

Scotts Valley junior Brooklyn Williams had little to no trouble getting back on track in Tuesday night’s regular season-opener against visiting Pacific Grove.

A universal banner of spring throughout much of North America, here in Central California the monarch butterfly’s black-lined, autumn orange wings also herald the fall, for they roost here in winter. And who could blame them?

A universal banner of spring throughout much of North America, here in Central California the monarch butterfly’s black-lined, autumn orange wings also herald the fall, for they roost here in winter. And who could blame them?

Can you recall a favorite holiday memory?