Santa Cruz City Council Candidate: Kayla Kumar
With the Nov. 3 election fast approaching, City on a Hill Press sat down with the Santa Cruz City Council candidates to talk COVID, racial justice, and more. Here’s what Kayla Kumar has to say. To view the rest of the City Council interviews look…
Santa Cruz City Council Candidate: Maria Cadenas
With the Nov. 3 election fast approaching, City on a Hill Press sat down with the Santa Cruz City Council candidates to talk COVID, racial justice, and more. Hear what Maria Cadenas has to say. To view the rest of the City Council interviews look…
Santa Cruz City Council Candidate: Shebreh Kalantari-Johnson
With the Nov. 3 election fast approaching, City on a Hill Press sat down with the Santa Cruz City Council candidates to talk COVID, racial justice, and more. Here’s what Shebreh Kalantari-Johnson has to say. To view the rest of the City Council interviews look…
Santa Cruz City Council Candidate: Sonja Brunner
With the Nov. 3 election fast approaching, City on a Hill Press sat down with the Santa Cruz City Council candidates to talk COVID, racial justice, and more. Here’s what Sonja Brunner has to say. To view the rest of the City Council interviews look…
Santa Cruz City Council Candidate: Elizabeth Conlan
With the Nov. 3 election fast approaching, City on a Hill Press sat down with the Santa Cruz City Council candidates to talk COVID, racial justice, and more. Here’s what Elizabeth Conlan has to say. To view the rest of the City Council interviews look…
Santa Cruz Businesses Adapt to COVID Restrictions
Over a dozen Santa Cruz storefronts have shuttered their doors since March, including iconic haunts 99 Bottles and The Poet & The Patriot Irish Pub. But over the same span of time, about 90 businesses received new licenses in the city of Santa Cruz, including…
Food Not Bombs Receives Notice to Vacate Front and Laurel
Volunteers of local meal aid organization Food Not Bombs (FNB) were greeted last Friday morning with a notice requiring them to vacate their current place of operations on the corner of Front and Laurel Street and move to a location on the other side of…
CZU Lightning Fire Contained: Mudslides Pose New Concern in Fallout
The CZU Lightning Complex Fire is 100 percent contained as of Sept. 22, reported Cal Fire. The San Mateo and Santa Cruz fire fighting units continue to monitor remaining smoldering and prepare for evacuations due to possible landslides, caused by fire debris and root loss,…
Building Community: Mutual Aid Funds in Santa Cruz County
Volunteer run mutual aid funds have been making waves throughout the country since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more about what mutual aid funds in Santa Cruz are doing to build community amid COVID and the CZU lightning fires.
Food Not Bombs: Forty Years of Free Meals
Food Not Bombs began in Boston. There, forty years ago, Keith McHenry and seven of his friends donned military uniforms and held a bake sale in front of the local nuclear power plant’s headquarters. They told passersby that they were going to use the proceeds…