Responding to formal charges filed this week by the Santa Cruz County District Attorney's Office, a 49-year-old man pleaded not guilty Thursday to vandalizing a street mural last year.
In the face of a looming budget crisis, the Live Oak School District's governing board declined to approve a series of recommended employee cuts, at least for now, at its meeting Wednesday.
New chain link fences with plastic green panels were set up Monday and Tuesday on both ends of an almost quarter-mile-long paved area behind a row of homes at Beach Drive in Aptos, close to where it meets the roundabout and brick esplanade.
"You have a baby here or you come to our baby class or you're going to have a baby, Nourish is for you," said Executive Director of the Watsonville Community Hospital Foundation June Ponce. "Come, let's make sure that from 0-5 (years old) your baby is well taken care of."