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Robb Woulfe, the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, announced Tuesday he would be leaving the position after four years as his family will be relocating.

"I appreciate the answers we received after postponing the items on March 26 and I feel more comfortable now with the facts at hand as presented here (and) also at the RTC meeting of April 18," said Supervisor Bruce McPherson.

The board, acting as the local lead for the project, previously reviewed the segments at its March 26 meeting and while it approved a series of environmental documents, it declined to move forward with the project itself, citing concerns about tree removal and cost overruns and asked its staff to explore ways to limit both.

The bus, owned by the transport company Riverview Industries, was operated by 51-year-old Phaedra Knepper. The bus was northbound on Caskie Road approaching Kemner Road when it went off-road to

"It's no guarantee that we're going to be able to do this project ultimately; that we'll have the money," said Andy Schiffrin, the alternate for Commissioner Justin Cummings. "But by approving the project--or urging the county to approve the project--we make it possible to potentially do it and we stay on track."

The crowd's ire was directed at supervisors Bruce McPherson and Manu Koenig who voted against the staff recommendations to approve designs for the multi-use trail next to the rail line and sunk the motion through a 2-2 split vote, citing environmental impact concerns and ballooning costs.

"You didn’t really believe the rail-trail issue had been settled, did you?" writes the Editorial Board. "Despite the overwhelming defeat of Measure D in 2022, which would have rewritten the county’s general plan to favor a trail in place of the rail line, the ongoing questions about commuter rail, a coastal recreational trail and the fate of the dilapidated rail tracks continue to be highly divisive."

A pair of segments from the high-profile Coastal Rail Trail project running through Santa Cruz's Mid County region are in limbo after the county Board of Supervisors rejected a majority of recommendations from its staff to move the project forward at its meeting Tuesday.

During the week of February 18, law enforcement officers from multiple agencies in Jefferson County conducted a Violent Crime and Narcotics Initiative, targetin