Mitchell Cove News Today

Reporter mel knee woodrow in middle town. Most residents have not been allowed here and you can see why. This home, totally destroyed. All thats left standing here is really a swing set. But as we pan around, another street just directly or rather another home just directly across the street has been okay. This is what it looks like not far from Middletown Community United Methodist church. Homes in ashes. It survived the 1918 fire of middle town that took out all of downtown. So, 97 years later...

When others could not. Sheriff said from the location of the body and other evidence at the Anderson Springs site it is likely that of 69yearold leonard neft former reporter with the San Jose Mercury news and we spoke with his wife. She spoke with hill on saturday after the fire broke out. Houston time we talk he said he did not think he was going to be able to get out and he would try to hike out if he had to. Crews went out with dogs to search for those missing and they found the body presumed...

"In the 1930s and 1940s, local surfers had trouble staying in the ocean for more than a half-hour, due to the frigid Alaskan Current turning their skin blue and rubbery," writes columnist Ross Eric Gibson. "They resorted to second-hand sweaters, sometimes treated with oil (a nerdy look for surfers), but they preferred 1890s wool bathing suits, which were 15¢ each at Goodwill. Then in 1959, Jack O'Neill opened his Cowell Beach surf shop where Dream Inn now stands."

Al Mitchell -- the visionary behind the Santa Cruz State Junior Lifeguards program started in 1966 -- died of natural causes July 25 at Dominican Hospital. He was 84.

An influx of anchovies, thousands possibly millions of the baitfish, inundated the waters near the Santa Cruz coastline this week, drawing sea birds of all sorts, and stoking concerns at the Santa Cruz Small Craft Harbor. 

An influx of anchovies, thousands possibly millions of the baitfish, inundated the waters near the Santa Cruz coastline this week, drawing sea birds of all sorts, and stoking concerns at the Santa Cruz Small Craft Harbor. 

The West Cliff Drive we know today — Santa Cruz’s “front porch,” a surfing mecca and the site for a procession of multimillion-dollar homes/objects of envy that represent the Sunset magazine ideal of the California Good Life — is a shockingly recent development. Coastline erosion has been an ongoing constant, consistent over decades and centuries — but now we humans are adding a new wrinkle: climate change.

There is value in looking back from time to time to see not only what our region looked like in the not to distant past, but also to realize how much has changed and how differently it could have turned out had history gone in a different direction.

Officials did not expect major flooding but warned that the situation — caused by a volcano erupting near the South Pacific nation of Tonga — posed dangers to swimmers, surfers and boats.

The hardest hit area of California appeared to be Santa Cruz Harbor where the tsunami waves rushed in at high tide, overflowing an embankment and flooding streets.