Santa Cruz County Health Services Agency director Monica Morales said that part of the Crisis Now plan includes hiring more people who do not have clinician credentials, or peer technicians, which may make hiring easier as well as reduce tensions that can come with dispatching law enforcement. "W...
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Santa Barbarareached an agreement to build a 4,000-foot bike laneto complete a missing link in the city’s bike network; the plan will trade land for an easement, while sparing over half the trees originally planned for removal. Santa Cruzshares the county’s best bike trails, for your n...
"Expanding access to buprenorphine is part of the county's aim to reduce fentanyl and other drug-related deaths," Santa Cruz County EMS Medical Director Dr. David Ghilarducci said in a statement. Santa Cruz County EMS senior health services manager Greg Benson, meanwhile, said he was exc...
The former location of Nuga on the Santa Cruz Branch Rail Line, December 10, 2017. [Derek Whaley] Public access to the site is no longer possible without trespassing on adjacent property. The location is just to the east of where Watsonville Slough runs under the Santa Cruz Branch Rail Line...
Yes, this person mentors students through our schools’ online mental health resources! The Trevor Project claims to “save young lives,” while placing kids who identify as LGBT in harm’s way of online sexual predators. This is very significant, because California’s Attorney General Rob Bonta...
1 Robert Effey was mayor of Santa Cruz 1884-1888 and again 1894-96. He was a watchmaker and jeweler by trade. In the 1890s he was a bidder on several California muni bonds but aside from the Santa Rosa water system, the only bonds he seemed to hold were for Stockton’s sewer. His...