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Watsonville Mayor Runs For Supervisor + 2nd Starbucks Unionizes

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Morning, Watsonville! Here's everything you need to know to get this Tuesday started off right.


First, today's weather:

Mostly sunny. High: 61 Low: 36.


Here are the top stories today in Watsonville:

  1. Watsonville man charged with child molestation in court Tuesday546 (KION)
  2. Former Watsonville Mayor Announces County Supervisor Run (Watsonville Patch)
  3. 2nd Santa Cruz Starbucks unionizes (KSBW Monterey)
  4. Wind Advisory issued for Santa Cruz Mountains (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
  5. Photo | Harlem Globetrotter stops at Santa Cruz's Gault Elementary School (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
  6. Roaring Camp Railroad Fears 'Forced Abandonment' (Santa Cruz Patch)
  7. Colorado Fire 98% Contained: Cal Fire (Santa Cruz Patch)
  8. Santa Cruz mom charged with trying to kill children heard voices: court documents (KRON4)
  9. Watsonville Area Events Calendar: Check Out What's Happening This Week (Watsonville Patch)
  10. Watsonville Area Job Openings: Browse The Latest (Watsonville Patch)


Today in Watsonville:

  • Homework Help @ La Selva Beach - La Selva Beach Branch Library (3:00 PM)
  • Lego® Master Builders - Watsonville City Main Calendar (3:30 PM)
  • Lego® Master Builders - Watsonville Public Library (3:30 PM)
  • B.Bball vs. King City - Watsonville High (4:00 PM)
  • Wrestling vs. MVCS - Watsonville High (5:00 PM)
  • G.Bball @ Alvarez - Watsonville High (5:30 PM)

From my notebook:

  • Watsonville Police Department: "Thank you for your great generosity, A&I Transport Inc.! The locally-based transportation company recently donated $11,000 to the Watsonville Police Assistance Fund to support our K-9 Unit program. Amolak Singh tells us he started hi..." (Instagram)
  • Watsonville Police Department: "Thank you for your great generosity, A&I Transport Inc.! The locally-based transportation company recently donated $11,000 to the Watsonville Police Assistance Fund to support our K-9 Unit program. Amolak Singh tells us he started his tr..." (Facebook)
  • City of Watsonville - City Gov't: "𝗛𝗔𝗣𝗣𝗘𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗢𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗥𝗢𝗪: Be a Master Builder at the Watsonville Public Library Lego® Club! Get creative with a provided theme or build whatever you want with the library's collection of bricks tomorrow from 3:30-4:30 PM. Brin..." (Facebook)
  • Watsonville Rec: "Flag Football 🏈 Registration is NOW OPEN for boys and girls ages 3-5 years. Click the link in our bio to register today! #watsonvilleparksandrec #watsonvillerec" (Instagram)
  • City of Watsonville Parks and Community Services Department: "Flag Football 🏈 Registration is NOW OPEN for boys and girls ages 3-5. Register at watsonvillerec.com today! #watsonvilleparksandrec #watsonvillerec #parksmakelifebetter" (Facebook)
  • Watsonville Police Activities League (PAL): "Happy Monday! Don't forget to have a funtastic week! 😆#watsonville #watsonvillepal #watsonvilleyouth #california #californiapal #nationalpal #youthengagement #youthdevelopment #youth #communityengagement #communitydevelopment #community..." (Facebook)
  • Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency: "You could take advantage of our laundry to landscape graywater rebate, which helps you develop a small system to water fruit trees or bushes with laundry water: " (Facebook)
  • Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency: "Rethinking our past and acknowledging out future will be different is important in water management, to better prepare for a drier future, we should stop thinking of when will this drought end and acknowledge the trends of the last coupl..." (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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