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August 20, 2025
The Editor’s Desk
While so many of us are looking at what to do next, there are more and more groups learning what not to do next, or to “be here now,” in the words of Ram Dass.
August 14, 2025
Huge Local Donation to Fight Cancer
Sutter Health Receives $30 Million Kvamme Foundation Gift to Transform Cancer Care in Santa Cruz
FROM A PRESS RELEASE
The Jean and E. Floyd Kvamme Foundation...
August 12, 2025
The Editor’s Desk
As Downtown Santa Cruz continues its skyward housing boom, there’s a big question planners must ponder: what are all those thousands of new residents going to do at night?
August 6, 2025
The Editor’s Desk
Imagine not only losing your home and all of your property, but also five years or more of your life. That’s what’s happened to the more than 60,000 residents...
July 30, 2025
The Editor’s Desk
Christina Waters’ cover story gives you all you need to enter a new world, one that we are so privileged to have in our hometown.
July 23, 2025
The Editor’s Desk
I’ll never forget taking a 6-year-old to an antique shop where I was looking at some classic vinyl albums.
“How does that fit in your...
July 16, 2025
The Editor’s Desk
There are other cities in California that claim to be the U.S. surf capital, but our cover story makes a convincing case that Santa Cruz is where the sport started on the mainland.
July 9, 2025
The Editor’s Desk
Sometimes I wonder if a town can have too much culture... we have more things to do on any given week than the city over the hill of a million or so people.