🌱 Starbucks Unionization Hearing + Capitola Roads Closed

Happy Friday, Santa Cruz! Let's get you all caught up to start today off on an informed note.

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First, today's weather:

Mostly sunny and cool. High: 60 Low: 35.

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Here are the top stories today in Santa Cruz:

1. Man killed in officer-involved shooting had Santa Cruz tie (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
2. Santa Cruz mother to stand trial for attempted murder of kids (KSBW Monterey)
3. City Donates Over $15K To Hope Services (Santa Cruz Patch)
4. Federal unionization hearing begins for Santa Cruz Starbucks; other stores moving forward (Lookout Santa Cruz)
5. Coast Line | Capitola roads closed Sunday for Surfers Path runs (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
6. New alarm registration system for Santa Cruz County546 (KION)
7. Cabrillo College students welcomed back to campus for in-person learning (KSBW Monterey)
8. Coast Line | Santa Cruz County Chamber of Commerce gala set March 24 (Santa Cruz Sentinel)

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Today in Santa Cruz:

• GSA Council Meeting (February 2022) - University of California Santa Cruz-Meetings & Conferences (5:00 PM)
• Family Dance - Bonny Doon Elementary Distict (6:00 PM)
• Winter Formal - Soquel High School (7:30 PM)

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• February 2022 QuaranPalooza Livestream Music Fest (February 26)
• "Befana: A Christmas Fable" returns! (February 26)
• FUNdraiser Event For Local Children (February 27)
• Taxes in Retirement Webinar (February 28)
• Learn How To Reduce Your Risk For Heart Disease During American Heart Month (February 28)
• OFP Pasta Feed & Silent Auction (March 5)
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That's it 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.