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UC Service and Patient Care Workers Will Mount Statewide Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) Strike, November 20th-21st
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From The Pajaronian...
Valencia Elementary School was closed Friday after numerous students were sickened by what is likely norovirus. The school will reopen Tuesday.
Watsonville Community Hospital and the Pajaro Valley Health Care District announced Friday that the building–and the property that surrounds it–once again belongs to the community.
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From San Lorenzo Valley Post...
Santa Cruz Community Health Partners with Central Coast Overdose Prevention to Provide 24/7 Access to Naloxone (Narcan) in the San Lorenzo Valley
From Santa Cruz Local...
Coca-Cola Co., PepsiCo Inc., Keurig Dr. Pepper Inc. and Red Bull have collectively contributed $1,235,000 to the No on Z campaign — trying to sway more than half of Santa Cruz’s roughly 37,000 voters against a proposed soda tax in the Nov. 5 election.That spend represents about $67 for each “no” vote needed to defeat Measure Z, according to campaign finance records.
From KSQD...
It has been just over two years since the Pajaro Valley Health Care District acquired Watsonville Community Hospital and returned it to public ownership for the first time in decades.
From Good Times...
The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors Tuesday unanimously approved an ordinance that will, in a little more than two years, ban the sale of filtered cigarettes in unincorporated areas of the county.
The Santa Cruz County Supervisors on Oct. 8 are expected to consider a ban on the sale of filtered cigars and cigarettes in the unincorporated county. Unincorporated areas include Live Oak, Soquel, the San Lorenzo Valley and other places outside the cities of Santa Cruz, Scotts Valley, Capitola and Watsonville.
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From Los Angeles Times...
Watsonville Community Hospital could soon be owned by the Pajaro Valley Healthcare District. PVHD announced a plan to purchase the building and surrounding property, a major milestone in a years-long endeavor to return the facility to public ownership.
Residents at the UC-owned, 168-unit Hilltop Apartments on Western Drive in Santa Cruz described problems with rats, delayed maintenance and unexplained charges.
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