Pajaro News

Pajaro-Sunny Mesa Community Services District water customers are finding a proposed rate hike hard to swallow.

A proposal to pay Pajaro Sunny Mesa Community Services District to build a new water tank in North County got the go-ahead Tuesday despite a number of questions about the project.

For much of Gary Bloom's career in education, his resume read much the same as many others who leave the classroom to take on leadership roles.

Dennis Osmer resigned as chairman of the Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency on Thursday.

After reading the article about UCSC's new partnership to build a $1 billion development in Silicon Valley, I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

Kathy and Steve Green presented their product everywhere. People were wowed by the concrete garden pieces, crafted to resemble wood or reflect the nature of a backyard oasis.

After years of agitating at the county level to get a pair of North County water tanks intended for fire suppression completed, Prunedale resident and supervisorial candidate Ed Mitchell has taken his fight to Sacramento.

Synopsis: Two neighbors got in an argument over using the dryer. One neighbor put her clothes in the dryer with the other neighbor's clothes.

When city residents take a shower, flush a toilet or wash dishes, the water's no longer just going down the drain.

As it runs through Watsonville and neighboring Pajaro, the Pajaro River is most famous for devastating floods and the homeless encampments and crime on its banks.

Janet Manzano took her son David Rojas, 5, to school Friday to get vaccinated. She was one of several parents taking advantage of the opening day of a clinic at Freedom Elementary School to get their children protection against the H1N1 flu.

Angel Gabriel Escobedo, 19. Jose Maria Barajas, 44. Joel Pineda, 24. Oscar Avalos Sanchez, 35.

Turns out, Brendy Juarez Lopez's battle against leukemia is a feel-good story. The 16-year-old Pajaro boy was diagnosed with the bone marrow condition in August 2008 and, a little more than a year after beginning chemotherapy, he appears to be cancer-free. Brendy's medical care came from doctors in Palo Alto.

Facing another $11.5 million in cuts for the coming year, the Pajaro Valley Unified School District is taking its numbers on the road, hosting three budget crisis meetings in early October.

Date of Report: 10/13/2009 Time of Report: 17:14 Deputy Name: Sheppy, Jose Report Number: 07539-09 Charges: M17 Suspect Arrested Y/N: No Arrestee: None Location: Pajaro Levee Synopsis: I advised the transient population residing in and around the levee of the potential for flooding in the area.

As documented in this week's SF Weekly cover story, Too Cute to Shoot , a former army tank commander named Wayne Fenton recently spent $400 and a whole lot of time and energy rescuing a one-eyed, starving sea lion named Breadstick.

Charges: 243 P.C., 273a P.C. Suspect Arrested Y/N: Yes Arrestee: bryan c. russell Location: Prunedale, CA Synopsis: The suspect was arrested for spitting in his ex-girlfriend's face in the presence of their 22 month old son during a heated argument.

Date of Report: 9/29/2009 Time of Report: 12:32 Deputy Name: PATTERSON Report Number: 07203-09 Charges: M-16 Suspect Arrested Y/N: Yes Arrestee: Location: JUVENILE YOUTH CENTER Synopsis: A NARCOTICS SEARCH OF THE JUVENILE AT THE YOUTH CENTER IN SALINAS WITH MY K-9 BOSCO WAS CONDUCTED.

County leaders are appealing to federal legislators to help end a stalemate with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over the long-stalled Pajaro River levee project.

Lois Goldfrank pursed her lips and made a soft psh, psh sound. "It's called pishing," Goldfrank explained to the fledgling birders she and husband Wally were leading past a scrubby hillside east of Pajaro Dunes on Friday morning.