🌱 Freezing Temps + Car Crash Near Fairgrounds

Good morning, Watsonville! Let's get you started this Wednesday with everything you need to know going on today in town.

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First, today's weather:

A passing morning shower. High: 58 Low: 27.

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Here are the top stories today in Watsonville:

1. Freezing Temperatures To Hit Watsonville (Watsonville Patch)
2. Photo | Sign points to Watsonville trailer park (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
3. 8 Injured In 3-Car Crash Near Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds: CHP (Watsonville Patch)
4. County (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
5. Efforts Underway To Make Highway 17 Safer For Animal Crossing (CBS San Francisco)
6. Soquel Man Dies In Car Crash: CHP (Santa Cruz Patch)
7. Will Watsonville Community Hospital be saved? (Lookout Santa Cruz)
8. Living shoreline project launches at Santa Cruz County beach (East Bay Times)
9. LOOKOUT PM: Unhoused Part II; Period project comes to UCSC (Lookout Santa Cruz)

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Today in Watsonville:

• Bilingual Baby Laptime - Watsonville City Main Calendar (10:30 AM)
• Bilingual Baby Laptime - Watsonville Public Library (10:30 AM)
• Toddler Time - Watsonville City Main Calendar (11:30 AM)
• Toddler Time - Watsonville Public Library (11:30 AM)
• Researching Your Genealogy--the nuts & bolts (1:00 PM)
• R.E.A.D.: Reach Every Amazing Detail @ La Selva Beach (3:00 PM)

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From my notebook:

• Watsonville Family YMCA: "Wondering what to do to stay active? Well, here are some options" (Facebook)
• City of Watsonville - City Gov't: "They take on essential tasks to keep our city moving and flowing and are committed to making a difference in our community. This week, we celebrate the amazing and influential work of Engineers. Here in Watsonville, our team of engineers..." (Facebook)
• Watsonville Rotary Club: "Join Us! - Hands-On Community Service Project! Please join us this Wednesday February 23rd, at12:00pm. We will meet at Palm Beach and walk the beach towards the Pajaro River outlet, cleaning as we go. Our own Michael Jones will be our am..." (Facebook)
• Pajaro Valley Chamber: "Mark your calendar for next Thursday! We're having another mixer!" (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.