Santa Cruz County Bulletin Board

Saturday 2/1: Marina: Keep Eyes on Sudan Community Solidarity Event

Marina Library, Community Room, 190 Seaside Circle Marina, CA 93933

Ask Yesenia: Celebrating YOU During Positive Parenting Awareness Month!

Dear parents, foster parents, grandparents, relative caregivers, and other adults raising children and teens, We’re celebrating YOU in January 2025! For the 13th year in a row the County Board [...]

Books by Martin Luther KingBooks by MLK

His Own Words The Measure of a Man - “Eloquent and passionate, reasoned and sensitive, this pair of meditations by the revered civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther [...]

January 15 – 21, 2025

Highlights this week: Greensite... on Downtown Plan Extension DEIR... Steinbruner... off this week ... Hayes... Cattle Grazing on Public Lands ... Patton... Artificial Sweetener ... Matlock... cal...

Sunday 2/16: Valentine's Rise Up Singing Veg. Potluck

Whiskey Hill Farms & Science Center

Go Santa Cruz Sustainable Transportation Program Marks 5th Anniversary

2,500 downtown commuters celebrated for logging nearly 545K miles of trips that do not include single-rider cars, reducing CO2 emissions Read More

Monday 1/20: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Salinas

Old County Jail, 142 W. Alisal St.

Monterey Bay Aquarium Workers United - Community Letter of Support

Employees of the Monterey Bay Aquarium are forming their union! Monterey Bay Aquarium Workers United stands together to create a better future for our colleagues, our animals, and our ocean. We be...

The Scotts Valley Cultural & Performing Arts Center is now “The Landing”

What’s in a Name? The Scotts Valley Cultural & Performing Arts Center has a new name – “The Landing”. The new name comes with a tag line – A Performing [...]

Orgs Working to Solve Homelessness Urge Senators to Vote “No” for Trump’s Pick for HUD Secretary

(WASHINGTON, D.C – January 15th) Everybody needs a safe place to live. However, rising rents and government inaction keep pushing more people into homelessness. Nearly half of renters pay more tha...

Saturday 1/18: Nurturing revolution? Expanding care and queering family across 3 worlds

SubRosa Community Space, 703 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Monday 1/20: Day of Service in Honor of Martin Luther King Jr

Homeless Garden Project Farm

Thursday 2/6: See You in the Sky: A Memoir of Prison, Possibility and Peace - Author Visit with Jeri Ross

Ow Family Community Room

A Stroll Though Capitola Village

Wandering the Capitola Village and its bay front promenade — window shopping and snacking along the way — is a quintessential part of any Santa Cruz experience.

7th Graders Protect Biodiversity in the San Lorenzo River Watershed

7th Graders in CWC's Watershed Rangers program complete outdoor field surveys and campus based investigations to learn about our watershed's biodiversity and how to protect it.

Plant Profile: Oregon Gumweed

Oregon Gumweed (Grindelia stricta) is a California native plant that the Coastal Watershed Council is establishing along the banks of the lower San Lorenzo River to improve the health and [...]

Saturday 1/18: Free Tour at Whiskey Hill Farms & Science Center

Whiskey Hill Farms

Naturalist Award Recipient 2025: Jeb Bishop

Jeb Bishop Ecologist, Volunteer, and Advocate for Native Plant Restoration The Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History is pleased to announce Dr. Jeb Bishop as the 2025 Laura Hecox Naturalist Award r...

Bioregionalism and “Natural” Disasters

The fires in Los Angeles bring climate to focus as popular press and aspiring politicians automatically lay blame for the devastation on climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions from burn...

Weekly Review January 12 – 18

This Weekly Review features public meetings in Santa Cruz County as of the time of publication, January 11 at 11:00 am. Meeting status changes will be updated as they are announced throughout the ...

Positive Parenting Awareness Month Events in Santa Cruz County

Triple P And Community Organizations Host Family-Focused Events Starting This Weekend SANTA CRUZ, CA – Triple P – Positive Parenting Read More

Celebrate Positive Parenting Awareness Month With Free, Family-Friendly Events

SANTA CRUZ, CA – Triple P – Positive Parenting Program, a program of First 5 Santa Cruz County, today announced the list of community and family-focused events happening during January [...]

Secchi Disk

Grades: 4+ Duration: 30-45 minutes Materials: Clear or white bottle cap, black Sharpie, liquid whiteout- if your cap is not white, a penny, hot glue or super glue, white or light-colored string, r...

January 8 – 14, 2025

Highlights this week: Greensite... on the Wharf Reopening... Steinbruner... Sewage sludge, desal, or brackish water conversion... Hayes... What's in the air... Patton... A Force For World Peace......

Speaking Up for Safety

One of my New Year’s resolutions is to keep better track of how our tax money is being spent. I hope to make this a group effort among our readers. As a family magazine, we must take a good look a...

Keeping Food Local and Fun

What looks like a glorious local grocery store is actually, more and more with each passing year, a form of rebellion, a forefront in the fight to keep Santa Cruz more…Santa Cruz. Andre Beauregard...

Family Game Night With a Twist

Learning about money doesn’t have to be a chore—it can actually be a lot of fun! Board games and other family-friendly activities often weave fiscal fitness and decision-making into their mechanic...

‘A Christmas Carol’ Was a Fun Experience

A couple of days ago my parents took me to see “The Christmas Carol” at the veterans hall in downtown Santa Cruz California. I sat directly in front of the stage with my mom and dad and my little ...

Start the New Year with a Family Keepsake

It used to be that families would have a large shoebox filled with printed photos meant for albums that never got made. Today, with cell phones capturing countless pictures and cloud storage like ...

Winter Enrichment for Pets and Kids

As we move into Santa Cruz County’s winter weather, we may find ourselves spending more time indoors with our families and pets. And when the cozy moments inevitably turn into chaos, the Santa Cru...

Eating to Save the Planet

In the vibrant tapestry of Santa Cruz County’s nonprofit community, Eat for the Earth stands out as an organization with a mission as bold as it is necessary: to transform the way we eat to protec...

Mastering the Positive Time-Out

The notion of Positive Time-Out came out of Positive Discipline. Positive Discipline is a parenting approach that promotes a relationship-based, mutually respectful, and developmentally appropriat...

Celebrating YOU During Positive Parenting Awareness Month

Dear parents, foster parents, grandparents, relative caregivers, and other adults raising children and teens: we’re celebrating YOU in January 2025! For the 13th year in a row the County Board of ...

How three teachers and a little kid taught me that phonics and meaning complement each other

Phonics and meaning are not enemies. Claude Goldenberg , December 22, 2024 What to watch for in California education in 2025? My post doc after finishing my degree in 1984 [...]

The Future of Education

by Kerry McDonald "Happy New Year! I hope that your 2024 ended peacefully and that you’re as eager as I am for what’s to come in 2025! I am particularly [...]

Saturday 1/18: People's March Monterey Bay

Window on the Bay, 717 Del Monte Avenue, Monterey

Tuesday 1/14: Vegan Potluck & Speaker, Jan Liband

Santa Cruz Seventh-day Adventist Church

Share the Warmth This Winter

It’s time for us to come together to share the warmth with those in need. The Annual Winter Coat Drive, hosted by AmeriCorps Seniors Monterey Bay RSVP, (a program of the Volunteer Center's Empower...

2/28 Fluorescent Fungi & Bioluminescent (DNA) Barcodes

Glowing, glowing, gone! For the last lecture of Fungus February, explore the brilliant world of bioluminesce. In this illuminating lecture, learn about the fluorescing fungi that glow under ultrav...

2/26 Sky Islands, Sea Islands, Dry Islands, & the Biogeography of Macrofungi

Making maps of the distributions of organisms is one of the most fascinating topics in all of natural history. The theory of island biogeography serves as an ideal starting point in understanding ...