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Permaculture Takes Root in Santa Cruz
NewsEnvironmentLocal Apr 23, 2013, by Sally Neas 2 Comments
“It’s spring time,” proclaims permaculture teacher David Shaw, as he clutches a hunter green steel digging fork. “Time to go.”
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Inside the Homeless Shelter Controversy
NewsLocalCommunity Apr 23, 2013, by Jacob Pierce 25 Comments
When Santa Cruz city councilmember Micah Posner got home this past Thursday morning, he couldn’t help crying, thinking about the night he had just spent at the Coral Street Shelter in Harvey West.
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Warriors an Instant Hit in Santa Cruz
NewsLocalCommunitySports Apr 23, 2013, by Jacob Pierce
In a season filled with bad news and bickering over trash and crime, a sports team united Santa Cruz at a time when dirty syringes had practically been on the verge of becoming the town’s new mascots.
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Dominican Employees Brace for Layoffs
NewsLocalCommunity Apr 16, 2013, by Jacob Pierce
When Dotti McKnight left her job at the Shadowbrook restaurant in Capitola, she thought a commissary job at Dominican Hospital would be enough to support her and her husband. That was 2003.
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The Truth About Hangovers
NewsCommunity Apr 16, 2013, by Maria Grusauskas 3 Comments
One drink to remember, another to forget. And the next thing you know, you’re waking up on a floor somewhere at 2 p.m., with a crinkled Taco Bell wrapper in your pocket and no recollection of how it or you got there.
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Approximately 5.4 million people in the United States are living with Alzheimer’s disease, the vast majority 65 years and older. But this is only the beginning—a rising life expectancy rate, combined with an enormous population of baby boomers, will balloon that number to nearly 16 million by 2050, according to figures from the Alzheimer’s Association.
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Busting the Mental Illness Myths
NewsLocalCommunity Apr 09, 2013, by Georgia Perry 11 Comments
When the voices first came to Adrian Bernard, they came in groups. Eleven years ago, those voices kept Bernard awake for five days on end, sitting up on his bed, listening to their songs and doing nothing else. He says it felt like his legs were stretched from one room of the apartment to the next.
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Santa Cruz’s Own Jack Nicholson
NewsLocalCommunity Apr 02, 2013, by Jacob Pierce
When Santa Cruz Warrior Taylor Griffin missed a clutch free throw with a minute-and-a-half to play against the Los Angeles D-Fenders on Friday night, Santa Cruz County Treasurer Fred Keeley looked over at his godson. The 14-year-old avid basketball fan was feeling discouraged.
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Ringing in Santa Cruz Ears
NewsLocalCommunity Apr 02, 2013, by Jacob Pierce
Downtown has been much quieter the past few weeks, at least at noon and 5pm. That’s because the volume on the city’s carillon bells, which hang high in the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, has been turned down.
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Businesses Feel Parking Bite
NewsLocalBusinessCommunity Apr 02, 2013, by Jacob Pierce 4 Comments
The Department of Public Works calls it Lot 10. Customers and employees in the City of Santa Cruz think of it as one of the last bastions of downtown’s free parking. But it won’t be for long.
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