A line of about 150 community members wrapped around the campus of Santa Cruz City Hall Tuesday afternoon to urge the City Council to pass a resolution calling for a permanent cease-fire in the latest war between Israel and Hamas. More than 110 people spoke during the meeting's oral communications period for about four hours.
The annual Downtown Holiday Parade featured 74 different groups, bands and performers of all types and brought thousands of Santa Cruz County residents and visitors from around the Bay Area.
The Santa Cruz City Council paused police plans on Tuesday to seek funding to install more than a dozen automated license plate-reading cameras at major traffic intersections and city gateways.
More than a hundred community members of all ages gathered at the Veterans Memorial Building in downtown Santa Cruz Thursday afternoon for a free Thanksgiving dinner featuring roasted turkey, mashed potatoes and all the fixings in a tradition of feeding the public that spans more than 30 years.
"At some point in the next two and a half hours, you will feel grief and pain and sadness and anger and I urge you to embrace those feelings. Feel them, sit with them, welcome them. This is a safe place for those emotions," event moderator Maddox Flagg said.