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🌱 SC Council On Abandoning Freight + Salesforce In Scotts Valley

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Happy Friday, Santa Cruz! Here's what's going on today in town.


First, today's weather:

Plenty of sunshine. High: 77 Low: 48.


Here are the top stories today in Santa Cruz:

  1. Santa Cruz City Council Opposes Abandoning Freight Lines (Good Times Weekly)
  2. Salesforce Leases Scotts Valley Retreat For New Work-And-Wellness Center (CBS San Francisco)
  3. UCSC professor honored by The White House (KSBW Monterey)
  4. Santa Cruz Weather Forecast For The Weekend Ahead (Santa Cruz Patch)
  5. Santa Cruz: See This Weekend's Upcoming Events In The Area (Santa Cruz Patch)
  6. Morning Lookout: Affordable housing spotlight, masks off and Valentine's options (Lookout Santa Cruz)
  7. Valentine's Day: The extravagant, the low-key, and the socially distant (Lookout Santa Cruz)
  8. Thursday Morning News Roundup (SFGate)
  9. 63,000 redwood seedlings planted in the Santa Cruz Mountains (KSBW Monterey)
  10. 'Privates' beach access approved for Santa Cruz County takeover (Santa Cruz Sentinel)




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Today in Santa Cruz:

  • Coastal Birding Walk (9:00 AM)
  • Caring for Elders - University of California Santa Cruz-Learning & Development (3:00 PM)

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That's it for today! I'll see you around.

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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