Aptos News

For 21 years, Santa Cruz resident and music genius Bill Welch has produced the Santa Cruz Blues Festival at Aptos Village Park, pulling in nearly 6,000 people to soak in two days of soul-filled song.

H.H. "Ace" and Betty "Zora" Copp will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary on May 30.

It was party time on campus, and the "celebrity" dunk tank, which also featured popular custodian Bobby Salazar, was part of the festivities as Aptos celebrated being named a state distinguished school in April.

Seventh graders from Twin Lakes Christian School in Aptos and Baymonte Christian School in Scotts Valley recently traveled to Rancho de sus Ninos, an orphanage in Mexico.

Mothers-in-law have been the butt of many jokes and unkind depictions. Mark Twain summarized the common disdain for mothers-in-law quite succinctly, "Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law." Yet, the relationship between mothers-in-law and their daughters-in-law can become uniquely beneficial and blissful and can enhance everyone in the ... (more)

City of Santa Cruz and Soquel Creek Water District Announce Release of the Draft Environmental Impact Report and Public Hearings for the Proposed scwd2 Regional Seawater Desalination Project To access the Draft EIR, click on image or visit: www.scwd2desal.org/EIR The City of Santa Cruz and the Soquel Creek Water District have partnered to evaluate ... (more)

Santa Cruz-based New Leaf Community Markets opened a store in Pleasanton. The opening marks the eighth store in the chain.

In the first round of Cabrillo College's presidential candidate forums, hopefuls Farley Herzek and Marie-Elaine Burns discussed how their backgrounds working for California community colleges would help them embrace budget changes in light of Proposition 30.

Guitarist Derek Trucks and his wife Susan Tedeschi, leaders of the Grammy Award-winning Tedeschi Trucks Band, headlines the Sunday portion of the two-day Santa Cruz Blues Festival in Aptos.

St. Mark's-in-the-Valley Episcopal Church invites the public to attend a unique multimedia concert at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the church, at 2901 Nojoqui Ave.

The Pajaro Valley Unified School District will recognize 65 graduating seniors as the 2013 recipients of the Seal of Biliteracy in a ceremony at 5 p.m. Wednesday on the lawn at district headquarters, 294 Green Valley Road.

Just a couple of years after it was on the financial ropes, the Santa Cruz Public Libraries is expected to be debt-free and grow its revenue 13 percent during the next five years through tax bumps and ongoing savings from restructuring.

A fire broke out Monday inside a residence on the 7500 block of Sunset Way, but the home was unoccupied at the time and no one was hurt.

Students and parents from four different counties crowded in the lobby of UC Santa Cruz's Cowell College Saturday afternoon to watch middle school kids from Discovery Charter School demonstrate 3-D printing.

In an homage to the original Kings Market, more than 50 people scaled scaffolds and wielded paintbrushes on Saturday to paint a mural at the Kings Village Shopping Center.

Cabrillo College will host presidential candidate forums on Wednesday and Thursday at the Cabrillo College Watsonville Center, 318 Union St., and at the Aptos campus, 6500 Soquel Drive: Wednesday, Watsonville Center, Room A150: Farley Herzek, 10-10:30 a.m.; Marie-Elaine Burns, 10:45--11:15 a.m. Wednesday, Aptos Campus, Samper ... (more)

Since 2005, Adamson has been general manager at the Beacon Hill Water and Sewer District in southwestern Washington.

Little more than a year after its celebrated remodel, Ristorante Barolo in Aptos has closed.

The Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter and the Friends of Watsonville Animal Shelter are hosting a Healthy Dogs Shots Fair from 1-4 p.m. May 18 at Ramsay Park Baseball Field, 1301 Main St.

A janitor spotted an unidentified man and Marco Garcia, a 22-year-old Aptos resident, spray painting a red and black shark on an electrical box at Cabrillo College, according to Santa Cruz County's sheriff's deputy April Skalland.