The Campaign for Organic and Regenerative Agriculture held a rally on a field behind MacQuiddy Elementary School encouraging all farms near schools in Watsonville to switch to organic and stop using pesticides.
Watsonville Community Hospital is on track to begin a series of projects to modernize its campus and help turn the hospital's finances around after emerging from bankruptcy three years ago.
Tony Nunez-Palomino, the new chair of the Pajaro Valley Health Care District Board of Directors, paid tribute to his late predecessor John Friel in his opening remarks and the board began the process of filling his vacant seat at Wednesday's meeting.
John Friel, former Watsonville Community Hospital CEO and chair of the Pajaro Valley Health Care District Board of Directors, died Thursday following an illness. He had resigned from the board two days prior to his death.