About the Aptos Beach Drive walkway land grab by the HOA, I pose an alternate solution. I am 70 and walk along that stretch of the beach regularly. Since the erection of the fences blocking access to the water side, I am left traversing a sidewalk with overgrown foliage and Green Waste refuse and recycling […]
New chain link fences with plastic green panels were set up Monday and Tuesday on both ends of an almost quarter-mile-long paved area behind a row of homes at Beach Drive in Aptos, close to where it meets the roundabout and brick esplanade.
County dries out, mops up after storm [Santa Cruz Sentinel, Calif.]
Jan. 29 APTOS Even as sunshine peeked from behind the clouds Friday, communities across Santa Cruz County were left mopping up after the week’s high-intensity rainstorms had charged through the region.
In the Aptos hills, a 41-year-old Pacific Gas & Electric Co. employee was recovering with minor injuries Friday morning after the vehicle he was riding in rolled down a Valencia School Road hillside, California Highway Patrol officer Sam Courtney said. The man, assessing storm damage to electric facilities, had been out driving the area around 12:30 a.m. when the road washed out from beneath him, according to PG&E spokeswoman Mayra Tostado.