The crowd's ire was directed at supervisors Bruce McPherson and Manu Koenig who voted against the staff recommendations to approve designs for the multi-use trail next to the rail line and sunk the motion through a 2-2 split vote, citing environmental impact concerns and ballooning costs.
"You didn’t really believe the rail-trail issue had been settled, did you?" writes the Editorial Board. "Despite the overwhelming defeat of Measure D in 2022, which would have rewritten the county’s general plan to favor a trail in place of the rail line, the ongoing questions about commuter rail, a coastal recreational trail and the fate of the dilapidated rail tracks continue to be highly divisive."
A pair of segments from the high-profile Coastal Rail Trail project running through Santa Cruz's Mid County region are in limbo after the county Board of Supervisors rejected a majority of recommendations from its staff to move the project forward at its meeting Tuesday.
During the week of February 18, law enforcement officers from multiple agencies in Jefferson County conducted a Violent Crime and Narcotics Initiative, targetin
In the face of a looming budget crisis, the Live Oak School District's governing board declined to approve a series of recommended employee cuts, at least for now, at its meeting Wednesday.