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Get on up, Santa Cruz! Here's everything you need to know to get this Wednesday started off right. Here's everything you need to know today in Santa Cruz.
First, today's weather:
Fog in the morning; cloudy. High: 69 Low: 45.
Here are the top stories in Santa Cruz today:
- Santa Cruz County Schools Drop Mask Mandate (Santa Cruz Patch)
- The Coastal Village of Davenport Offers a Stellar Array of Dining Options (Good Times)
- Canton Has Been a Santa Cruz Chinese Food Mainstay For 30 Years (Good Times)
- Quick Bites | Teen Kitchen Project benefits from Alderwood event (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
- Lighthouse Point: Santa Cruz Photo Of The Day (Santa Cruz Patch)
- Santa Cruz City Disposable Products Ordinance To Start March 8 (Santa Cruz Patch)
- Santa Cruz's fate was sealed in PK shoot-out loss | NorCal soccer playoffs (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
- Coast Line | Wilder Ranch seeks volunteer docents (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
- A hands-on introduction for your creative kids: Santa Cruz Symphony partners with Carnegie Hall (Lookout Santa Cruz)
- Food Not Bombs clashes with the city of Santa Cruz over permits (Los Angeles Times)
- Santa Cruz law enforcement gives a lending hand to Salinas PD (KSBW Monterey)
- Santa Cruz Works to honor local tech giants (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
- Volunteers tally unhoused in Santa Cruz after pandemic set back (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
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Today in Santa Cruz:
- Rockin' Pop-Up: The Giants of our Solar System (online) (12:00 PM)
- LGBTQ Task Force - Santa Cruz City Schools (3:30 PM)
- Financial Knowledge For All: Identity Theft (5:03 PM)
- Global Heritage Night: Japan & Korea (5:30 PM)
- Financial Knowledge For All: Identity Theft (6:00 PM)
- Virtual Writers' Open Mic Night - Virtual Library (6:00 PM)
- Our Relationship with Weather: The Deeper Roots of Climate Change (7:00 PM)
From my notebook:
- Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office: "Supporting Officer Alvarado's family We would like to share the official Fund A Hero donation page through PORAC for fallen Salinas Police Department Officer, Jorge Alvarado, to help his fiancé and family during this tragic time. Officer..." (Facebook)
- Santa Cruz Police: "Safety is our #☝️ priority! A friendly reminder that when driving past cyclists, please allow at least 3️⃣ feet of space between your vehicle and the cyclist. If you cannot maintain that distance, slow down and wait until it is safe to p..." (Facebook)
- Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter: "Hours of operation change! We are excited to announce that the Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter will be open to the public 10am-6pm everyday starting today March 1st! Our Watsonville Shelter will be reopening today 3/1/22 with hours of o..." (Facebook)
- Santa Cruz SPCA: "This last week we did ✨7✨ adoptions!! 🥰🥰 We are THRILLED to announce that Olivia, Butterbean and Patches have all found homes (all pictured here), as well as Sempa, Cookie, Lucy and Misty! ❤️" (Facebook)
- Santa Cruz Warriors: "Starting the week off with a DUB #SeaDubs on the road up next: 🏀 SCW at Stockton Kings 🗓️ Mar. 2 🕖 7:00pm PT 📺 NBC Sports Bay Area / California 📲 MyTeams App" (Facebook)
- Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks: "Time to hit the beach! Here are March's lowest tides in Santa Cruz. Negative tides offer the perfect opportunity to go tide pooling: Tuesday, March 1 at 3:47 pm 🌊 -1.1 Wednesday, March 2 at 2:23 pm 🌊 -.08 Sunday, March 27 at 2:11 pm 🌊..." (Facebook)
- Santa Cruz Public Libraries: "After serving the community for over 50 years, the Aptos Branch Library will assume one last duty before being demolished. SCPL has partnered with the County of Santa Cruz and local fire agencies on a unique training opportunity to help ..." (Facebook)
- Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks: "Registration is now open for the California State Parks Backpacking Adventures (CASPBA) program, which will offer three guided backpacking tours in the Santa Cruz Mountains this summer. Led by experienced backcountry naturalists, the CAS..." (Facebook)
- City of Santa Cruz Public Works: "Updates to the City's Environmentally Acceptable Packaging & Products Ordinance become effective on March 8. Early compliance businesses like La Cabaña Taqueria have already experienced positives. Read more: www.cityofsantacruz.com/Home/..." (Facebook)
- Santa Cruz City Government: "Updates to the City's Environmentally Acceptable Packaging & Products Ordinance become effective on March 8. Early compliance businesses like La Cabaña Taqueria have already experienced positives. Read more: www.cityofsantacruz.com/Home/..." (Facebook)
- Santa Cruz County Chamber of Commerce: "⭐⭐⭐ NEW MEMBER SPOTLIGHT! ⭐⭐⭐ We're so pleased to welcome new 2022 member Santa Cruz Business Builders! Santa Cruz Business Builders is a non-profit business networking group that helps promote businesses. They host events and mixers t..." (Facebook)
- Santa Cruz City Schools: "Santa Cruz City Schools 4th Annual Job Fair Saturday, March 5, 2022 From: 9:00am to 11:00am Location: Harbor High School, 300 La Fonda Ave. Santa Cruz The Job Fair will be held in the Multipurpose Room Teaching and Support Staff Openings..." (Facebook)
- Santa Cruz City Schools: "We have expanded Transitional Kindergarten to all turning 5 by February 2, 2023. Register today: sccs.net/enroll" (Facebook)
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— 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.
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