Aptos News

When Ristorante Barolo finally opened its doors to the waiting crowd Thursday night, gone was the feeling that you'd stepped into your frumpy old aunt's living room.

Santa Cruz County Board of Education Trustee Gina Locatelli announced Thursday she would not be candidate for the county Board of Supervisors.

For the past six months, Joyce has been delivering pizza, subs, pasta and salad as well as any other item available on the menu at Joe's Pizza Subs.

Since late 2011, Robert Irvine has made a habit of coming to Santa Cruz County. First, he transformed Hoffman's in Downtown Santa Cruz on his show "Restaurant: Impossible." Now he's back, this time in Aptos to do a number on Ristorante Barolo , the Italian eatery on the bottom floor of the Bayview Hotel on Soquel Drive.

Two Santa Cruz chamber music groups, one brand new and one in its third decade, presented recent concerts of mostly contemporary music.

After a year's hiatus, the popular San Francisco to Santa Cruz stage returns to the Amgen Tour of California , bringing with it the Bonny Doon Road climb, which has proven decisive for the overall race classification in the past.

You'll hear them coming before you see them - the flap, flap, flap of rubber-clad feet on concrete.

Elite cyclists from around the world will zip down the North Coast, climb into the Santa Cruz Mountains then fly down into Aptos for a big finish in front of Cabrillo College on Soquel Drive this spring.

Sure, a wood-fired pizza oven, like this one at Caruso's Tuscan Cuisine and Pizzeria in Capitola Village, would be every home pizza maker’s best friend, but the truth is, great pizza is in reach of home cooks, too Pizza is one of those wonderful foods that can be dressed up or dressed down to suit any occasion.

Not only will you be able to find garbanzos in their natural raw form from one of our Aptos Farmers Market farmers, you'll be able to get them in some flavorful hummus from Zena Foods.

Zach Friend, a crime analyst with the Santa Cruz Police Department, will hold a kickoff for his bid for the county Board of Supervisors from 6-8 p.m. Feb.

Singer-songwriter Gretchen Peters, a Grammy-nominated artist who won a Country Music Award for song of the year, plays at Don Quixote's International Music Hall tonight.

Before beginning his current position,A Santa Cruz Patch A Editor Brad Kava was a journalism instructor at Cabrillo College-but remained skeptical about the future of journalism.

Zameen in Aptos did it. So did Seabright's Charlie Hong Kong, Jack's Hamburgers in downtown Santa Cruz, and the Westside's Burger.

Artist Donald F. Van Selus will have his work displayed at the Gallery at the Merc in Temecula.

As promised, the Santa Cruz Wine Examiner having served as judge of the Ninth Annual Wine & Crab Taste-Off held on January 22, 2012, now lists just released results.

A man accused of making threats that led to a lockdown on the Cabrillo College campus last year has pleaded guilty to four charges.

Police on Thursday released surveillance images of a woman who tried to pay for items with a stolen credit card at Safeway in Aptos in early January.

Robert Irvine is at it again. The world famous chef and Food Network personality is set to return to Santa Cruz County next week to restore Ristorante Barolo from its current stale state.

Scotts Valley Patch: What is your occupation? Donna Maurillo: My seven younger siblings call me a know-it-all, so I try hard to keep up that reputation.