Santa Cruz County Voices

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 ...