The Monterey Bay Salmon and Trout Project is planning to release 23,000 steelhead trout into the San Lorenzo River and Scott Creek, four months ahead of schedule this year. The fish are normally released in April. At the same time, 1,000 coho salmon have been transported to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s laboratory at Terrace Point.
Holiday Violence in Santa Cruz
Despite all the talk about curbing violence in the city, Santa Cruz police faced a bloody holiday weekend that left one man dead and two men in the hospital in two separate incidents.
Students Respond to UC Charges
Three UCSC graduate students wrote an article in the Santa Cruz Sentinel defending student actions in the recent campus protests.
Santa Cruz Trustees Grapple With Education Cuts
Santa Cruz City Schools trustees have a tough job ahead of them in coming weeks: trimming their $60 million budget to the tune of $3.4 million.
The Piano Mover
Ricky Maurice Howard, owner of Howard’s Piano Moving, moves pianos with a surprising amount of elegance.
Santa Cruz’s Royal Connection to Surfing
The royal family of Hawaii paid tribute to Santa Cruz by donating a bronze plaque honoring the three princes who first surfed here in 1885. According to the story, three Hawaiian princes visited the coast that year while on vacation from St. Matthew’s Hall military school in San Mateo. When they saw the waves, they ordered three 15-foot, 100-pound surfboards to be made for them from the local redwoods. They paddled them out of the San Lorenzo River, and surfing history was made.
Another Media Company Takes on Google
Just two days ago SanJose.com reported that Murdoch and Microsoft are planning to take on Google. They could be joined by the Denver-based MediaNews Group.
Ten Questions for Kristen Cederquist
Kristen Cederquist, co-owner of Serendipity Saucy Spreads, shares what brought her to Santa Cruz and what she’s been up to since then.
Palin’s Opus Might be More Fiction Than Fact
IT’S BEEN a rather tawdry week of Sarah Palin mania as the former governor of Alaska and Republican vice-presidential nominee has taken to the Lower 48 to promote her highly anticipated memoir, Going Rogue, which was written with evangelical co-author Lynn Vincent—though you won’t see that rather significant fact included anywhere on the cover or even on the book’s title page. It’s actually buried deep in the book’s acknowledgements, well after Palin thanks herself.
Give a Green Light to the Green Line
Micah Posner makes his case for why Santa Cruz should purchase the rail trail, even with a price tag of $14.2 million.
