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Santa Cruz Volunteers Collect Record Amounts of Trash
Sep 21, 2009, by Staff EnvironmentAll around the world, volunteers gathered to clean up beaches and waterways during International Coastal Cleanup Day on Saturday. In Santa Cruz, 3,800 volunteers spread out among 50 sites across the county to pick up the garbage left by others.
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VIDEO: Santa Cruz AIDS Project Drop-In Center shuttered
Sep 18, 2009, by Jessica Lussenhop Community
An inside look at the center, filmed just prior to the final closure on September 15.
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Neighbors Discuss Meth Use in Pogonip
Sep 18, 2009, by Staff NewsThe Police Department had some dire news for members of the Santa Cruz Neighbors group. The 60 participants in a public meeting were told that Pogonip was the county’s “meth capital,” with some shocking figures to back that up.
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UCSC Pulls the Plug on the Arboretum
Sep 18, 2009, by Staff NewsWith state funding slashed by $50 million, UCSC can’t afford to squander money, or see the groups that it funds squander it. That was the stated reason for the school to cut all funding to the Arboretum.
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Attorneys Help Homeless Couple
Sep 18, 2009, by Staff NewsUsually attorneys end up arguing if and how much to punish people who violate the law. This week, Santa Cruz attorneys decided to work together instead and find a solution so that the law is upheld.
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Local Home Prices Begin to Drop
Sep 18, 2009, by Staff BusinessThe median home price in Santa Cruz county has begun to dip, after rising steadily since February.
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An Apple A Day …
Sep 17, 2009, by Staff News
Watsonville students will soon have a whole new range of snacks to choose from at the end of the school day. For four days a week, teens from the Jovenes Sanos youth organization will operate stands outside the schools, where students can buy a cup of berries for just 50 cents.
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City to Reconsider Fairfield Inn on Westside
Sep 17, 2009, by Staff BusinessThis summer, when Santa Cruz planning commissioners rejected plans to build a new Fairfield Inn on the Westside, off Highway 1, they said that the design was “cheap” and “ugly,” hardly the way they wanted to greet tourists about to enter Surf City. But at least one councilmember is considering approval over planning commissioners’ objections.
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UCSC Expanding to Santa Clara
Sep 17, 2009, by Staff NewsUCSC’s Extension in Silicon Valley program is preparing to unveil a new facility in Santa Clara on Oct. 1.
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Coastal Cleanup Swims Upstream
Sep 17, 2009, by Jessica Lussenhop Environment
As Coastal Cleanup Day gears up for its 25th anniversary of beachcombing for cigarette butts and bottles, Save Our Shores marine debris program coordinator Emily Glanville says there’s good news and there’s bad news. “Our beaches are looking pretty good these days,” she says. “We’re seeing less trash being left on the beach. Our data from the summer of 2008 showed quite a bit more.”
