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"The recent damage to the south end of the Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf should leave little doubt in anyone’s mind that the era of global warming is upon us," writes Jon Bombaci in a Guest Commentary. "As someone who’s spent the lion’s share of a lifetime working to maintain and improve our Wharf, it is desperately hard to see yet another round of winter storms pummel our Wharf while precious time needed to construct fortifications that would protect against building losses and the tens of millions of dollars in grant funding that could pay for those improvements are washing away with the broken pilings."
"After the Dec. 7, 1941, surprise attack at Pearl Harbor, blackout drills were immediately instituted in Santa Cruz County," writes Local History columnist Ross Eric Gibson. "Mayor Edwin Rich said on Dec. 9, 1941, to shop early before the mandatory 5 p.m. store closings, since most air attacks in war zones were made around dusk."