Todd Guild

Editor’s note: This is the first of a series of stories on the four seats up for election on the PVUSD Board of Trustees. Look to future editions for trustee areas 1, 4 and 7.

Attorneys for a 19-year-old charged with a recent Capitola homicide will be in court Monday asking to seal a protective order against the teen granted last

Aptos resident Jennifer Schacher has withdrawn her candidacy for the Trustee Area 5 seat on the Pajaro Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees. In

CANDIDATE Curt Wilcox says his life experience should make him a good member of the Pajaro Valley Unified School Board. PHOTO: Police mug shot

The Pajaro Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees on Wednesday unanimously approved naming Watsonville High School’s athletic facility to honor longtime teacher and coach Roland Hedgpeth.

Pajaro Valley Unified School District headquarters, also called The Towers. (Tarmo Hannula/Pajaronian file)

The Watsonville Civic Plaza building. (Tarmo Hannula/Pajaronian file)

The former West Marine building at 500 Westridge Drive is the home of the South County Government Center. (Tarmo Hannula/Pajaronian file)

I write this column not particularly spiritually centered but deeply troubled. We are less than 70 days away from the most important midterm election in our lifetime, possibly as significant as elections in the time of Abraham Lincoln or Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Three candidates with markedly different professional backgrounds are vying for the Trustee Area 1 seat on the Pajaro Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees in the Nov. 3 election.