Oh, yes—it's a goatee. And it is good. (Photo by Curtis Cartier)
Santa Cruz Man’s Goatee Judged Greatest On Earth
by Curtis Cartier and Jessica Fromm CommunitySanta Cruz postal worker Paul Beisser has the best goatee in the world and the trophy to prove it.
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Our New Look
by Traci Hukill NewsWelcome to the revamped News page of SantaCruz.com.
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Desal And Democracy
by Fred Geiger OpinionThere will be no election. It won’t be on any ballot. The Powers That Be have already decided. We will have a seawater desalination plant. And you will pay for it.
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Ten Questions for Mas Hashimoto
by Traci Hukill CommunityFormer Watsonville high school history teacher Mas Hashimoto explains why the simple things make him happy.
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Santa Cruz Poet Flew Under The Radar
Jul 03, 2009, by Stephen Kessler Obituaries
When someone close to you dies, it’s always strange, even if they were old and in poor health and you knew it was coming. When the deceased is a longtime friend, an exact contemporary and a peer in your shared obscure line of work, someone you spoke with over the phone the day before and who was no drunker than usual and otherwise in good health as far as you knew—when he is suddenly found dead in his San Jose cottage, apparently of a heart attack, at 62, your grief and disbelief are of a different order of magnitude.
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Decision Postponed on Coastal Commission Rep
Jul 02, 2009, by Staff report Environment
Assembly Speaker Karen Bass has postponed her appointment decision for the Central Coast’s representative to the California Coastal Commission and asked for more nominations. Spokeswoman Shannon Murphy told the Santa Cruz Sentinel that although Bass is not unhappy with the current nominees, “the speaker’s been consumed with budget negotiations.” Bass’s office would not comment on why she had not renewed incumbent Dave Potter’s appointment.
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Scotts Valley Votes to Foreclose on Target Site
Jul 02, 2009, by Staff report Business
Plans to bring Target to Scotts Valley hit another snag Wednesday when the town council voted to foreclose the 18-acre property. City Attorney Kirsten Powell informed the council that the development group Title Two still owed $253,000 on the La Madrona Drive property and was not interested in a payment plan. The Santa Cruz Sentinel reports that no one representing Title Two attended the council.
Target’s development in Scotts Valley has created concerns over traffic and the size of the store harming the character of Scotts Valley. The city plans to file the paperwork necessary to sell the land if the court approves the move to foreclose the property.
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Salon to Hold Cut-a-Thon in Memory of Local Stylist
Jul 02, 2009, by Kat Lynch BusinessOn Sunday, July 12, Rumours Salon & Spa will host a cut-a-thon to benefit the family of stylist Raul Heredia, who was killed in a hit-and-run accident on June 23. More than 60 stylists volunteering their time will cut and style hair for $35 donations. Five baskets valued between $200 and $700 will be raffled off for $5 a ticket. Proceeds will go toward supporting Raul’s two children, Julia and Gavin.
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Santa Cruz County Supes Dig Deep, Pass Budget
Jul 01, 2009, by Jessica Lussenhop NewsLast Thursday, as the County Board of Supervisors picked over the last remaining scraps of unfinished business in its 2009-10 budget, the board was asked to accept a 6 percent reduction in LAFCO’s budget. County Administrative Officer Susan Mauriello read off the amount—$5,913—to a few sad guffaws. “Don’t spend it all in one place,” someone quipped. “Every little penny counts,” scolded Mauriello.
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Video Records State Parks Fans’ Sentiments
Jun 30, 2009, by Kat Lynch News
Last Saturday, over the course of 12 hours, Dusty Nelson visited New Brighton, Wilder Ranch, Twin Lakes, Waddell Creek, Natural Bridges and Henry Cowell state parks. But it wasn’t a day of play; Nelson was on a mission. Camera in hand, working on behalf of the Friends of Satna Cruz State Parks, he interviewed parkgoers at the six state parks for their thoughts on the California State Parks crisis. The responses he got were much the same.
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Sound Museum Searches for New Home
Jun 30, 2009, by Curtis Cartier Community
In an unremarkable office trailer tucked in a corner of the sprawling California Grey Bears thrift complex on Chanticleer Avenue in Santa Cruz is one man’s ode to the stereo. No more than a modest collection of dusted off old speakers, televisions, radios and record players stacked on flimsy shelves amongst a scattering of musical and political posters, the room is the pride of Grey Bears employee and local activist Franklin Williams. But one person’s “sound museum” is another’s “inappropriate use of space,” and come July 16, these old relics will need to find a new home.
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Group Plans Trip to Cuba in Protest of Embargo
Jun 29, 2009, by Curtis Cartier
The first six months of Barack Obama’s tenure as president has seen the most drastic changes to U.S. policy toward Cuba in more than 50 years. But for a group of local and international volunteers, the president’s move to relax restrictions on family travel to the communist country is “commendable, but it is not enough.”
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UCSC Researcher Sues FBI Over “Security Threat” Label
Jun 29, 2009, by Staff NewsLast week Haiping Su, a UC-Santa Cruz earth sciences researcher at NASA Ames Research Center, filed a federal lawsuit against the FBI and NASA Ames for labeling him a “security threat” and destroying his career.
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Capitola Identifies Future Affordable Housing Sites
Jun 27, 2009, by Kat Lynch NewsCapitola City Council broke the stalemate over property rezoning to meet a state requirement Thursday night with a three to two vote in favor of confining action to two site, including a contentious location on Park Avenue.
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