🌱 Apartment Building Approved + Scotts Valley Shooter Charged

Hey, neighbors! It's me again, Michael Wittner, your host of the Santa Cruz Daily.

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First, today's weather:

Mostly sunny. High: 67 Low: 45.

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Here are the top stories in Santa Cruz today:

1. Six-story apartment building project moves forward in Santa Cruz (KSBW Monterey)
2. Scotts Valley Shooting: Central Valley Man Charged (Santa Cruz Patch)
3. Colorado Fire: Evacuations Lifted, Highway 1 Reopens (Santa Cruz Patch)
4. Bay Area triple stabbing suspect struck and killed on Highway 85, police say (SFGate)
5. Jon Wizard announces campaign for state assembly (Paso Robles Daily News)
6. Santa Cruz: Cats, Rabbits, Pets Available For Adoption Nearby (Santa Cruz Patch)
7. Opinion: A Positive Outlook on Health and Fitness (Good Times Weekly)
8. Santa Cruz unable to keep pace with Rio Grande Valley | NBA G League (Santa Cruz Sentinel)

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Today in Santa Cruz:

• JavaScript Coding - Virtual Library (3:00 PM)
• Scotts Valley Genre Book Club - Virtual Library (7:00 PM)

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From my notebook:

• Visit Santa Cruz County: "Classic Capitola with a sunset glow… 🧡💚🌴🌅🌴💜💙 Photo 📷 | @lia.rabbit #visitsantacruz #santacruz #capitola #santacruzcounty #sunset #january #winter" (Instagram)
• Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office: "Please be on the lookout for this outstanding suspect from last night's incident involving CHP - Santa Cruz. If you have any information, please contact the Santa Cruz Area CHP Office at 831-662-0511." (Facebook)
• Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter: "Meet Archie - our Pet of the Week! Isn't he the cutest bun?!!🐰🐇 Look at that nose! Boop☝️🥰 Archie is a social butterfly who's always bouncing around the place. He loves frolicking in his fenced play area and is always ready to have a ..." (Facebook)
• Santa Cruz Warriors: "To celebrate January's National Mentoring Month, the #SeaDubs & NBA 2K hosted students & teachers from four local leadership classes at a Santa Cruz Warriors home game. Prior to the game, students participated in a panel with Santa Cruz ..." (Facebook)
• Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks: "Join us for a tour at Wilder Ranch State Park this Saturday at 1 p.m.! Discover what life was like a century ago on this innovative dairy ranch. This hour-long tour includes the 1896 water-powered machine shop, barns and other historic b..." (Facebook)
• Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks: "Enjoy a sunset at Sunset State Beach! #FindNewAdventure" (Facebook)
• Santa Cruz City Government: "Our Street Maintenance crews installed a temporary fence on West Cliff Drive to keep pedestrians safely away from the eroding cliff. This is temporary until our engineering project to address erosion begins here. 🚶" (Facebook)
• Friends of the Santa Cruz Public Libraries: "Branciforte Branch Library under renovation thanks to your support! Renovation will build on the character of this iconic mid-century (1967) building, refreshing the 6,800 sf interior for improved flexibility, function and accessibility ..." (Facebook)
• Santa Cruz City Government: "Congrats, Friends of the Santa Cruz Public Libraries! You did it! Thanks to the generosity of over 500 donors, they have surpassed their Realizing the Promise capital campaign goal of $1 million for Garfield Park, Branciforte, and Aptos ..." (Facebook)
• City of Santa Cruz Public Works: "Recent rain created a large pothole at Ocean and Water streets. Our Traffic Engineering and Street Maintenance crews quickly patched it to prevent a traffic hazard." (Facebook)
• Santa Cruz County Chamber of Commerce: "This morning we held our Annual Member Breakfast Meeting featuring keynote speaker Ahmad Thomas 🗣👥! We would like to thank the Dream Inn for hosting this important annual event and accommodating us with an outdoor space at the last min..." (Facebook)
• Santa Cruz Water Department: "We're happy to share some photos from recent fire preparedness work we've been doing around Loch Lomond and adjacent watershed lands. With fire now being a year-round threat to our watersheds, we need to step up our game in order to prot..." (Facebook)

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Alrighty, you're all good for today! See you all tomorrow morning for your next update.

— Michael Wittner

About me: I am excited to be returning to Patch as a Roving Editor, a job that will allow me to find out what's going on in communities all over the country. I worked as a Patch Field Editor from April 2020 to June 2021, covering Agoura Hills, Beverly Hills, Calabasas, Malibu, and Northridge-Chatsworth. Before then I was the Associate Editor of the Jewish Journal, a biweekly paper covering the Jewish community north of Boston. I grew up in Marblehead, Massachusetts, a small, seaside town north of Boston, and graduated from Bard College in New York, and then got my masters in teaching from New York University. Feel free to send any story ideas to michael.wittner@patch.com.