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11/29/2024
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The San Lorenzo Valley and the broader Santa Cruz County community are mourning the loss of Mary Hammer, a beloved founder and lifelong advocate for the region. Hammer died Nov. 6 after a brief illness, leaving behind a profound legacy of service, compassion and environmental stewardship.

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11/29/2024
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They didn’t exactly have a choice in the matter, but when it came down to updating their secondary residence policy, Scotts Valley City Council opted to allow larger accessory dwelling units than required to incentivize building these further away from the property line than allowed.

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11/29/2024
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Cabrillo College has been awarded a $150,000 grant from the California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office to implement the Veterans Mental Health Demonstration Project. The two-year grant is one of 10 awarded to community colleges statewide for the project term starting November 2024 through November 2026.

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11/28/2024
Plan to attend the celebration of the 40th anniversary of Cabrillo College's Porter Gulch Review literary journal on December 9. Read on to learn more.

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11/27/2024
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The City of Santa Cruz must supply the entire UC Santa Cruz campus with water if the university develops the north campus and expands further outside city limits, an appeals court panel of judges decided last week.

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11/27/2024
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The organization responsible for keeping Watsonville’s wetlands healthy joined forces with city officials and a herd of volunteers Saturday to spruce up the Struve Slough trail.

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11/27/2024
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Measure M, which will raise millions of dollars for construction, rebuilding and maintenance projects at each of Pajaro Valley Unified School District’s 35 schools has passed, and officials are starting to make plans for the money.

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11/27/2024
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Watsonville City Councilman Jimmy Dutra has fended off a challenge from Trina Coffman-Gomez to hold onto his Sixth District seat, garnering a weighty 54% of the 2,321 votes in the race, results released Friday showed.

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11/27/2024
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The City of Capitola is considering replacing the heavily traveled Stockton Avenue Bridge that spans Soquel Creek in the heart of the village.

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11/27/2024
Learn more about the California State Parks prescribed burns in the Forest of Nisene Marks State Park and the CalFire prescribed burns in the Soquel Demonstration State Forest scheduled to begin in December.

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11/27/2024
A $3.6 million grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency will fund the clearing of debris left in the aftermath of the CZU Fire on the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo-owned 3,200-acre Swanton Pacific Ranch north of Davenport. Read on to learn more.

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11/26/2024
Image for display with article titled Rare Santa Cruz Brittle Star Fossils Shine New Light on Local Paleontology

Ancient “serpent star” fossils, Amphiura sanctaecrucis, not seen in the area since the early 1900s have been unearthed in the Santa Cruz Mountains and donated to the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History.

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