Tamsin McMahon is the Managing Editor at Lookout Santa Cruz. She focuses on themes such as travel and tourism, regional interest, education, and health and wellness, often exploring topics like campus life and public transportation. Tamsin's work has been featured in notable publications including The Charlotte Observer, Bloomberg News, and The Boston Globe.
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Tamsin McMahon's coverage primarily focuses on local news, with an emphasis on evolving stories and government announcements. She frequently covers topics related to arts & entertainment, local events, and human interest stories in the Santa Cruz County area.
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We just finished our first summer membership campaign at Lookout Santa Cruz, which helped provide approximately 125 backpacks filled with school supplies to local students as part of United Way Santa Cruz County’s annual Stuff the Bus school supply drive.
“Made in Santa Cruz: Why Art Matters” is a new video series, published every other Sunday, exploring the artists who shape Santa Cruz County's creative landscape. Each episode offers a peek into an artist's practice, the places and experiences that inform their work, and the ways creativity helps us see our community differently. Today’s artist is Watsonville painter and art educator Rhia Hurt.
By: Hillary Ojeda
Cabrillo College's Watsonville Center has seen enrollment jump 71% and course pass rates climb from 70% to 84% since fall 2022, a surge that Watsonville Center Dean Eduardo Cervantes credits to dual-enrollment growth, pandemic-recovery outreach and new programs tailored to local students' interests.
Crews are making progress on the Timber fire, which continues to burn in Big Sur in Monterey County. It had scorched more than 5,772 acres as of Thursday morning, but containment was 27%. Several state parks remain closed as firefighting efforts continue.
By: Max Chun
The Santa Cruz County housing market looked similar in July to what it has for most of the summer, despite sales temporarily dipping as prospective buyers leave for vacation and school gets back into session.
By: Jeoffry B. Gordon
The nationwide cyclospora outbreak has sickened thousands, exposing more than a problem with lettuce or one food supplier, writes retired family doctor Jeoffry B. Gordon. Santa Cruz County has had no known cases and contaminated lettuce linked to the outbreak did not come to California — but that should not lull us into complacency. The outbreak, he writes, exposes the consequences of weakened food-safety systems and delayed federal action to trace and contain contamination. He sees food safety as a public responsibility, and he urges readers to demand the resources and oversight needed to keep food safe.
By: Mat Weir
At 92, legendary animator Willie Ito is still drawing on his childhood experience in a Japanese American incarceration camp to tell stories of hope. The former Disney, Warner Bros. and Hanna-Barbera animator will visit Santa Cruz on Wednesday for a screening of “Hello, Maggie!”, the animated short based on his childhood friend’s story of a boy who finds joy and friendship inside a World War II incarceration camp.
A bill that would have been one of California's most substantial DUI reform bills in years had widespread support, but Sen. Sabrina Cervantes' committee suddenly gutted it with little explanation.
A Pajaro Valley Unified school board candidate with convictions including felony assault and child endangerment can still run for office because those crimes don’t disqualify him under California law, while questions have also been raised about Curt Street Wilcox's claimed Watsonville residence.
