The median home price in Santa Cruz county has begun to dip, after rising steadily since February.
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An Apple A Day …
Watsonville students will soon have a whole new range of snacks to choose from at the end of the school day. For four days a week, teens from the Jovenes Sanos youth organization will operate stands outside the schools, where students can buy a cup of berries for just 50 cents.
City to Reconsider Fairfield Inn on Westside
This summer, when Santa Cruz planning commissioners rejected plans to build a new Fairfield Inn on the Westside, off Highway 1, they said that the design was “cheap” and “ugly,” hardly the way they wanted to greet tourists about to enter Surf City. But at least one councilmember is considering approval over planning commissioners’ objections.
UCSC Expanding to Santa Clara
UCSC’s Extension in Silicon Valley program is preparing to unveil a new facility in Santa Clara on Oct. 1.
Coastal Cleanup Swims Upstream
As Coastal Cleanup Day gears up for its 25th anniversary of beachcombing for cigarette butts and bottles, Save Our Shores marine debris program coordinator Emily Glanville says there’s good news and there’s bad news. “Our beaches are looking pretty good these days,” she says. “We’re seeing less trash being left on the beach. Our data from the summer of 2008 showed quite a bit more.”
The Children of Santa Cruz’s Beach Flats Neighborhood
Curtis Cartier photographs the children of Beach Flats.
Teen Faces Jail Time for Tossing Dog in Ravine
Lola is one lucky dog. The one-year-old chihuahua was put in a box and thrown into a ravine, but managed to survive the ordeal and was reunited with her owner. Andrew Ariola Corpus, 19, the UCSC student who abused the animal, is not as lucky. He could get up to a year in jail, as well as counseling and community service.
Man Shot Dead in Watsonville
Watsonville police are investigating the shooting death of a man in his 20s who was killed on Carey Avenue on Tuesday night.
Stimulus Funds to Help At-Risk Kids
Yesterday, Congressman Sam Farr announced that Santa Cruz County will be receiving $913,560 in federal stimulus funding to assist its Juvenile Probation Department.
Local Schools Improving – But Not Enough
Santa Cruz County’s schools showed an improvement in academic performance, based on the results of the 2008 standardized tests.
