What's up Santa Cruz! Let's start this morning right by getting caught up on what's going on around town. Keep reading to stay in the loop. ☕️️
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Also on today's calendar: Illusive Comics' Free Comic Book Day and 6 more events.
Today's riddle: What is round on both ends and hi in the middle? 🤔 (Answer below!)
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• Six tenants set to be displaced by new affordable housing in Downtown Santa Cruz (santacruzlocal.org) — Six longtime residents of Neptune Apartments in downtown Santa Cruz are being displaced to make way for a new 102-unit affordable housing project in the upzoned SoLa area. Tenants describe anxiety over relocation assistance, higher future rents, and whether they can remain in Santa Cruz’s extremely expensive rental market as the city’s anti-displacement policies face a key test.
• Don't Turn Your Back on the Ocean: Sneaker Waves on Santa Cruz Coast (goodtimes.sc) — If you’re heading to the Santa Cruz coast today, this piece is a vivid reminder to never turn your back on the Pacific, especially along West Cliff and up toward Davenport. Through a harrowing personal story, the writer explains how sneaker waves can suddenly surge over rocks and wet sand, with special warnings for families, kids, and older beachgoers.
• Ancient body-builders: What fossils reveal about life's ingredients (upr.org) — A UC Santa Cruz paleobiologist is using chemistry to read tiny “fingerprints” in ancient bones, revealing how animals built their bodies and responded to past climate shifts. His work on Pleistocene creatures and ancient warming events could help scientists better understand how today’s species, including those in our region, may adapt—or struggle—as the planet changes.
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