Tag: Watsonville Sat, March 20, 2010
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Watsonville’s Overtime Blues
Feb 17, 2010, by Jessica Lussenhop NewsIt may be the dead of winter, but summer is already on the minds of Watsonville city employees—specifically the June budget and the potential $5 million hole in it. At the Feb. 9 city council meeting, financial director Marc Pimentel blamed declining property taxes and the state and national budget crisis, but he also pointed out that police and fire overtime were a major stress on the city coffers.
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2009 Crime Statistics for Watsonville
Jan 27, 2010, by Jessica Lussenhop NewsWatsonville’s newly minted police chief, Manny Solano, presented the Watsonville city council with a statistical synopsis of crime in 2009.
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The exciting finale of our mini-documentary on the Aztecas. (Video after the jump.)
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VIDEO: Watch Part 2 of “Rise of the Aztecas”
Nov 13, 2009, by Jessica Lussenhop Community
The continuation of our mini-documentary on the Aztecas. (Video after the jump.)
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City of Watsonville Wins War of the Strawberry Festivals
Sep 23, 2009, by Jessica Lussenhop CommunityAfter a drama-filled feud with its fired promoter, the Watsonville Strawberry Festival turns a profit.
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Watsonville Passes Final Budget, With One Surprise
Jun 24, 2009, by Jessica Lussenhop NewsAt the final city council meeting on Watsonville’s budget Tuesday night, city staff managed to pull off a small miracle, to the surprise and delight of many of the assembled nonprofits.
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Watsonville Heads for Four-Day Work Week
Jun 05, 2009, by Jessica Lussenhop NewsIt’s been a little over a week since Watsonville’s city council approved a series of tentative agreements that will whack the city employees’ work week down to four nine-hour days, creating an overall 10 percent reduction in cost to the general fund and a service blackout one day per week, likely Fridays.
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Watsonville Prop. 8 Protest Small but Significant
May 27, 2009, by Jessica Lussenhop NewsWhile some 200 outraged protesters crowded around the Clock Tower in downtown Santa Cruz in reaction to Tuesday’s California Supreme Court ruling upholding the Prop. 8 constitutional ban on same-sex marriages, roughly 20 miles away in the Watsonville City Plaza, a small group of 20 people stood along Main Street yelling, “Honk!” at passing motorists and waving signs.
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Watsonville Beauty School Faces Closure
Apr 29, 2009, by Jessica Lussenhop Business
Teresa Rodriguez brushes an orangey-red polish onto a client’s fingernails and says, “I’ve waited years to go to cosmetology school, and then they opened one in Watsonville. It was a dream come true.
