🌱 Santa Cruz Mask Mandate +Watsonville Tattoo Restrictions

Hello, people of Watsonville! Michael Wittner here with your brand-new copy of theWatsonville Daily.

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First, today's weather:

Plenty of sunshine. High: 79 Low: 44.

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Here are the top stories in Watsonville today:

1. Santa Cruz County considers keeping mask mandate locally (KSBW Monterey)
2. The Racial Undertones of Watsonville's Tattoo Restrictions (Good Times Weekly)
3. Ramsay Park Testing Center Moves To Watsonville (Watsonville Patch)
4. Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter To Offer $14 Adoptions (Santa Cruz Patch)
5. Winter Heat Wave To Hit Watsonville, NorCal (Watsonville Patch)
6. Editorial | Government responsive on Roaring Camp, Watsonville hospital (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
7. LOOKOUT PM: Omicron subsiding; masks too? Watsonville Hospital hopefulness (Lookout Santa Cruz)

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Today in Watsonville:

• R.E.A.D.: Reach Every Amazing Detail @ La Selva Beach (3:00 PM)
• Wrestling-Mission Division Finals JV/Varsity (4:00 PM)
• G.Bball @ Stevenson - Watsonville High (5:30 PM)
• B.Soccer vs. Alvarez - Watsonville High (6:45 PM)

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From my notebook:

• Watsonville Police Department: "Sergeant Juan Trujillo caught up with some of our residents who were taking in the sun and enjoying a warm cup of oatmeal and homemade tamales at the City Plaza this morning ☀️ It's always nice to take some time during our shifts to mee..." (Instagram)
• Watsonville Police Department: "Sergeant Juan Trujillo caught up with some of our residents who were taking in the sun and enjoying a warm cup of oatmeal and homemade tamales at the City Plaza this morning ☀️ It's always nice to take some time during our shifts to meet..." (Facebook)
• City of Watsonville - City Gov't: "The OptumServe COVID-19 testing site at Ramsay Park will be moving to a County facility in Watsonville on Wednesday, February 9, 2022. The 500 Westridge Drive facility is just over a mile from Ramsay Park and will continue to provide fre..." (Facebook)
• Pajaro Valley Arts Council: "This is Kathryn Stowell her art work is displayed at our Take Aways: Art To Go exhibit. Kathryn works with Mixed Media and is a local artist from Santa Cruz County. • • Our annual fundraising exhibit featuring 72 of the area's finest art..." (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.