Soquel News

Sheriff's deputies and state drug agents ripped out marijuana plants worth more than $1 million from an illegal garden in a remote area of the Soquel Demonstration Forest on Monday, but not before the growers had harvested about half of the pot and fled.

I went downtown this afternoon. It was a wonderful warm summer afternoon, with just enough breeze from the ocean to keep it from being hot.

The hills were alive with the sounds of runners Saturday as 625 people celebrated the Fourth of July by racing in the 24th annual Firecracker 10k, as well as the new 5-kilometer and kids 1k events.

A state parks ranger was taken to the hospital after being struck by a drunk driver Thursday night as he was setting up road barriers in preparation for the Fourth of July, according to State Parks.

The certified results of the May 19 special election show that statewide turnout was 28.4 percent, one of the lowest in years.

Antiques motorcycles and brand new bikes were on display Sunday at Capitola Mall during the Bikes on the Bay motorcycle show CAPITOLA "" There was a motorcycle or scooter for just about everyone's taste at the fourth annual Capitola-Soquel Chamber of Commerce vintage motorcycle show Bikes on the Bay event at the Capitola Mall on Sunday.

I would like to give a thank you to the SPCA on Chanticleer Avenue across from Grey Bears.

An economic strategist will be among a handful of redevelopment professionals added to the county's otherwise shrinking workforce, under the county's proposed budget plan.

Bay Federal Credit Union and Santa Cruz Community Credit Union saw their ratings downgraded for the first quarter after sharing in unprecedented losses incurred by two financial institutions serving the industry.

Harley Robertson of the Santa Cruz County Office of Education will be joining the Soquel Union Elementary School District as its superintendent of business services this fall.

More than 350 Live Oak and Soquel community members participated in one of five workshops held by the County Redevelopment Agency in late May and early June.

A crash at Lincoln and East Beach streets in Watsonville on Monday afternoon sent a mother and her small daughter to the hospital SANTA CRUZ Gun brandished at fast food drive-up A group of people apparently upset that another vehicle pulled ahead of them in the drive-through of a fast food restaurant brandished a shotgun at the other car just ...

Are the people protesting on the steps of the courthouse being paid or just ignorant and uneducated? Gangs are turning Santa Cruz into a cesspool of violence.

When IHOP opened Monday morning, Deborah Windisch was waiting. The Soquel resident showed up at 4 a.m. at the 50-year-old restaurant chain's newest location on 41st Avenue so she could be the first to eat at the first IHOP in Santa Cruz County.

Born 2/3/1970 at Dominican Hospital, Soquel, CA in Santa Cruz County. Was told my birth mother was a student.

A preschool teacher was alertA Friday morning after being critically injured in a Wednesday car crash at her school in unincorporated Santa Cruz County, according to the California Highway Patrol.

I was surprised to see someone actually realistically confront the budget problems facing Santa Cruz County and offer real, long-term solutions.

The ebullient annual Avant Garden Party, presented as a fundraiser for New Music Works, takes place on Sunday with all the requisite elements of personal happiness on hand -- namely, live music, great food and stimulating company.

G OING where no one has gone before has lately gotten a bit dicier. The present economy pulled a rug out from under the previous New Music Works concerts, a not-nice turn during this 30th anniversary season.

Two projects at Mid-County schools that had been postponed when bids came in too high will now go forward thanks to falling construction costs.