Todd Guild

As work crews began to clear out the unsanctioned homeless encampment on Airport Boulevard, and the property owner said he planned to fence off the area, the residents worried that they had nowhere to go.

A proposal to relocate roughly 200 students attending Duncan Holbert School to three other elementary school campuses—and move Renaissance High School to that site—was delayed Wednesday after dozens of parents, students and staff implored the Pajaro Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees to reconsider the plan.

The long-running fight over access to the Rio Del Mar beachfront walkway took a turn in Santa Cruz County Superior Court on April 24, as a judge granted a temporary injunction in favor of the homeowners who brought the case led by Christopher Weseloh, who challenged the county’s position that the walkway is public.

Watsonville Police lead Moises Resendiz to jail after he was arrested for threatening a mass shooting at a PVUSD graduation. (Contributed)

Mads Realmuto will be the first to say he prefers to stay out of the spotlight.

The vacant 2.75-acre property on Airport Boulevard across from the Freedom Centre shopping plaza has long been the site of a homeless encampment that troubled residents and plagued city officials, who struggled to balance helping unhoused residents with protecting the land from the impacts of unsanctioned camping.

PVUSD's headquarters, known as The Towers.(Tarmo Hannula/Pajaronian file)

Watsonville Community Hospital has been awarded $10.6 million through California’s Distressed Hospital Small Grant Program, part of a state effort to help financially struggling hospitals avoid closure.

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. has begun work on a major power system upgrade in Watsonville, Freedom and nearby communities that the utility says will improve reliability, reduce outages and help meet growing electricity demand.

Santa Clara County officials, community organizers and residents gathered at the county government center in San Jose May 14 to oppose a federal plan to build an immigration detention facility on agricultural land just outside Gilroy city limits, vowing to fight the project in court and in the streets.