Last Friday at the open house for Santa Cruz AIDS Project’s brand new offices, staff and guests were all smiles, congratulations and thank-you’s over the renovation of 313 Front Street. But the truth behind the move was never far from the surface.
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Don Webber’s Crusade to Save La Bahia
It’s a beautiful view of the Pacific Ocean from Don Webber’s balcony. A clear shot between the bell tower and Court of the Mariners of the La Bahia Apartments over the warm and busy sands of Main Beach, it’s a postcard-worthy scene by anyone’s standards.
Mercury Found in Coastal Groundwater
Scientists at UCSC have discovered high levels of an ultra-toxic form of mercury in the groundwater of two coastal sites in California. The groundwater flows, they say, show a previously unknown source for what have been mysteriously high levels of mercury recently found in marine environments and in seafood.
Ten Questions for J. Nichols
Marine conservation activist J. Nichols explains how he got to Santa Cruz and why he’s excited about 2010.
Santa Cruz Eateries Serve Up The Bargains
Welcome to the world of economic downsizing—yours, mine and everybody’s. One strategy for coping is the masochistic response. You know, buy mega-tubs of overly-processed stuff at Costco and sit at home with Netflix and a box of Kleenex. Another style is to get creative and take advantage of expanded happy hours, early bird specials and weekday dining promotions. We looked around and found a few choice examples.
Watsonville Heads for Four-Day Work Week
It’s been a little over a week since Watsonville’s city council approved a series of tentative agreements that will whack the city employees’ work week down to four nine-hour days, creating an overall 10 percent reduction in cost to the general fund and a service blackout one day per week, likely Fridays.
Street Kids, Restaurant, Church Reach Truce
There’s an old saying: don’t shit where you eat. It’s a wise bit of logic—typically not meant literally—reminding people to keep their misdeeds away from where they live and work.
Compostable Diaper Service Comes to Santa Cruz
All parents know that their little bundles of joy deposit big bundles of . . . undesirable material in their adorable little pants multiple times a day. Santa Cruz parent Karen Nelsen and her friends knew that firsthand.
Appeals Board Axed Unanimously By Supes
Yesterday’s Board of Supervisors meeting had all the charm of divorce court when it arrived at its final piece of business for the day–determining whether or not to deep-six the Building, Accessibility and Fire Code Appeals Board.
Fear and Loathing at the Santa Cruz Libraries Book Sale
The rules on the flier for the “Friends of the Santa Cruz Public Libraries HUGE Civic Book Sale” on May 30 sounded simple.
