Animal Services authorities in Santa Cruz are looking for a German pointer named Jack that bit a nine-year-old boy and charged the boy’s mother in Santa Cruz harbor yesterday.
UCSC Programs Get Grants Despite Budget Cuts
With California preparing to slash $3 billion from its University of California and California State University systems, the future seemed grim for UCSC. There was some good news yesterday though, when it was announced that the school won $6.3 million dollars from the UC system, to be used in four research major research projects.
Downtown Sex Shop Certified Green
Doing the nasty has never been so clean – Pure Pleasure in downtown Santa Cruz has just earned its stripes from the Department of Public Works as the only Green Certified sex toy shop in the entire Monterey Bay area.
Volunteers Support Santa Cruz Libraries
As the current budget crisis has shown, public libraries are one of the first services to take a hit when the economy is down. Just last month Santa Cruz County was forced to cut back on hours, programming, and even staff to meet the most recent cuts in funding. Their salvation came from an unexpected sources—volunteers, who have been flooding public libraries asking to help out. Countywide, volunteers have increased 75 percent, totaling 16,000 hours.
School Districts Uniting to Lobby Sacramento
Representatives of six Santa Cruz County school districts met on Thursday to form a steering committee for a proposed new Santa Cruz County School Boards Association. Like other associations throughout the state, the group plans to use their combined power to face state legislators with a unified voice, particularly in matters relating to the local education budget.
Good News for Santa Cruz Nonprofits
Faced with a 25 percent across-the-board cut in municipal funding, Santa Cruz nonprofits received some good news on Thursday. The Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County announced that it is giving almost $750,000 to a wide range of nonprofits that provide safety-net services for the local community.
Water Conservation No Longer Optional
Why should anyone care if California salmon, or local fishermen, go the way of the dodo? Can’t we just buy fish from Alaska? And what’s wrong with the farmed stuff, anyway? Because of economic suffering in the Central Valley, some are calling for an end to environmental protections for California’s once-mighty salmon runs.
Ten Questions for Becky Olvera Schultz
Artist Becky Olvera Schultz on how she got to Santa Cruz, what bugs her and what she’d be doing if she had all the time in the world.
Shop Capitola Campaign Taking Shape
Following the example of Santa Cruz’s Think Local First campaign, the city of Capitola is now urging citizens to “Shop Capitola” and support local businesses. Shoppers should expect to see the emblem of a red and white life preserver popping up all around the city.
Thousands Left Without Power
A Pacific Gas and Electric power line that fell at a Chanticleer Avenue substation yesterday knocked out the power for 12,000 customers and brought traffic to a slow crawl as people headed home on their evening commute.
