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🌱 RTC Roaring Camp Back To Drawing Board + Tsunami Funding

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Morning, Watsonville! Let's get you all caught up to start this Saturday, February 5 off on an informed note. Here's everything going on today in Watsonville.


First, today's weather:

Partly sunny. High: 68 Low: 36.


Here are the top stories in Watsonville today:

  1. RTC, Roaring Camp to go back to drawing board over Felton Line (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
  2. Morning Lookout: Rail debate passion and skirting an affordable housing law (Lookout Santa Cruz)
  3. Santa Cruz County man accused of sexually assaulting young employees ordered held without bail (The Mercury News)
  4. Rep. Panetta asks Gov. Newsom for funding for Santa Cruz tsunami damage (KSBW Monterey)
  5. What should replace Kmart? (The Pajaronian)

Today in Watsonville:

  • Little League Try-Outs (9:00 AM)
  • G.Soccer @ Hollister - Watsonville High (4:00 PM)

From my notebook:

  • Pajaro Valley Arts Council: "On Monday, January 31, our friends from "the walking group, Santa Cruz" paid the gallery a visit to check out our current annual fundraising exhibit, Take Aways: Art to Go! They all had a great time and bought about $1000 worth of beauti..." (Facebook)
  • City of Watsonville - City Gov't: "The deadline to apply for our City Clerk position is quickly approaching. Applications are due next Tuesday at 5 p.m. The City Clerk manages and oversees the day-to-day functional operations of agenda management, electronic records manag..." (Facebook)
  • Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency: "#FactFriday What is a GSP? It is a Groundwater Sustainability Plan and its purpose is to provide planned and coordinated monitoring, operation and administration of groundwater basins with the goal of long-term groundwater sustainability..." (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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