Ten questions for the Santa Cruz Derby Girl known as Brawley Parton.
Roads Still Closed as County Mops Up
Residents of Eureka Canyon Road are still digging out from the mudslide that resulted from Tuesday’s storm.
Senior Assaulted in Her Home
Santa Cruz Police are investigating the sexual assault of a 69-year-old woman that took place in her home early Wednesday morning.
Disabled Teen Could Lose Transportation
Bud Benites has trouble getting to school. The 16-year-old student at Soquel High School suffers from scoliosis and is confined to a wheelchair, so the only way for him to get to classes is a specially modified van.
Federal Grant Aims at Curbing Teenage Drinking
Santa Cruz County’s Office of Education was awarded a $1.3 million grant to curb the incidence of teenage alcoholism.
Quake Led to Setting of Santa Cruz ‘Sun’
It was hard not to take the earthquake personally. That October Tuesday, my newspaper, The Sun, which I had started three years earlier in a surge of journalistic urgency and entrepreneurial folly, was on deadline, preparing to go to press the following morning.
The Show Goes On
“Perseverance, dear my lord, keeps honor bright,” wrote William Shakespeare in Troilus and Cressida, and it is a lesson that’s been taken to heart. Despite the perfect storm of financial difficulties faced by Shakespeare Santa Cruz and UCSC, the company’s artistic director, Marco Barricelli, and UC Santa Cruz Dean of the Arts David Yager have decided that the company will carry out its 29th season.
Local Parks Closed Because of Storm
Fearing strong currents, mudslides, flooding, and falling branches, authorities closed 14 state parks in Central California yesterday, seven of them in Santa Cruz County. The parks are: Big Basin Redwoods State Park, Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, Lighthouse Field State Beach, Natural Bridges State Beach, New Brighton State Beach, Seacliff State Beach and Sunset State Beach. The parks are expected to reopen today, pending local conditions.
Santa Cruz Walloped by Storm
It was the worst storm in decades. In just 24 hours, Santa Cruz received 3.16 inches of rain, shattering the 1957 record of 2.49 inches, while parts of the county saw as much as 10 inches of rain.
The Zombie Zeitgeist
Pondering the zombie phenomenon, author David Sirota speculates that it has something to do with our powerlessness to stop financial disaster, even after an election that some believed would fix everything. “Here we are, with virtually nothing changed,” he writes, “watching the same zombie crises indomitably stumble forward.”
