Thursday at the Santa Cruz clock tower, women’s services advocates rallied to protest the complete elimination of state support to domestic violence services under the state’s Department of Public Health.
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‘Roadless Rule’ Revived
Ding dong! The witch is dead! Environmentalists are whistling a happy tune after yesterday’s federal appeals court decision to reinstate Clinton-era protections of 58 million acres of national wilderness that were repealed during the Bush administration.
Solar Energy Program Hits a Snag
Though Cash for Clunkers may be zooming along, local initiatives to promote green energy alternatives are hitting a standstill because of cost.
Students Rescued after Sailing Mishap
Four UCSC sailboats overturned yesterday afternoon during a sailing class. The students were brought to shore within 15 minutes of the incident, and no injuries were reported. Read more at the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
Of Film Festivals and Homophobia
We find ourselves in Sweden. A gay couple is on the waiting list to adopt a baby. They have been approved as parents. They receive a letter. A boy, age 1.5, is arriving. The men are ecstatic, although one of them is still a bit apprehensive about this whole adoption idea. They outfit a nursery. The “baby” arrives on a Friday afternoon. He is 15, a troubled teen released from a reformatory, and to say that he is homophobic is to put it mildly.
The Cabrillo Music Festival Bursts into Santa Cruz
The Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music doesn’t just offer the best of today’s leading American composers, to say nothing of their genius counterparts from other countries. It also proves, summer after summer, that there is a great hunger for excellent new music and, just as important, one that spans many generations.
Tightening of the Santa Cruz Greenbelt
IN THE CRISP light of a spring day, Cathy Puccinelli stands quietly, her eyes taking in the land that has been in her family for more than 100 years. The echo of flowing water from the adjacent Pogonip Creek is a perfect backdrop for the sprawling seven-acre property, made up of a cottagelike farmhouse with a well-kept yard and a large organic farming field.
Puccinelli says the land hasn’t changed much since her Italian immigrant grandparents bought it in 1900 to farm. “But no one wanted it then,” she says. “It was right next to the tannery, so it smelled of blood and hide.” (With slide show)
Behind the Scenes at Santa Cruz’s Festival for New Music
It’s early Sunday evening and musicians are trickling in to the Civic—musicians in flip flops, musicians in blue jeans, musicians in stylish haircuts. Slowly the orchestra comes awake in a chaos of indelicate morning noises: bleeps and sour yawns and fragments of melody abandoned before they’ve started make sense. Tuning up, the two harpists strain to hear the bell-like tones of their instruments, then fall to chatting.
New Funds to Boost UC-Santa Cruz Infrastructure
State Treasurer Bill Lockyer announced a move Aug. 4 to improve University of California infrastructure across eight campuses by setting up $200 million in bond funds. The Santa Cruz Sentinel reports that UC-Santa Cruz will receive $64 million, which will go toward the new Biomedical Sciences & Engineering Facility.
New Hotel for Santa Cruz?
When the city’s Planning Commission meets this Thursday, it will decide whether to approve construction of a new hotel off Mission Street on the far west side of town, beyond Western Drive.
