The Santa Cruz Yacht Club is hosting it’s annual lighted boat parade in the Santa Cruz, Ca harbor. This event is fun for all and it a free event. As it is done at night, be sure to dress warmly,mittens and scarves.
I find that unless you bike there, to bring quarters to feed the meters. [...]

The holiday always bring an extra dose of work to those in the service industries. For some it is where they may their money for the year, for others it is where they work overtime to take care of us consumers.
As we gorge our selves on Thanksgiving or gleefully shout with joy at Christmas, the [...]

This is the time of year where we get together with family and friends. Often we give thanks for what we have, and reflection on the world. We are a nation that is reeling at the moment and many have lost their jobs. This is the time where we are most charitable, and now is [...]

The Spare the air day idea is fairly simple. If you burn wood based products, you produce smoke. With many areas this smoke gets trapped under the cloud layer and creates smoky conditions with high levels of particulates.The San Joaquin Valley is notorious for heavy low clouds and when people in the bay area burn, [...]

GM is a behemoth that the congressional leaders are wrestling what to do. Once again GM and the other automakers keep missing clues. As Toyota with its Prius and Honda with its erstwhile Civic hybrids have steadily been gaining ground, GM has been asleep at the wheel. Redux 1973.
The oil spike will be shown over [...]

We went to dinner the other night with a group of friends to celebrate a birthday. We ate at the Drunk Monkey, a new place that is sort of an Asian fusion place I guess you would call it. We had a variety of dishes and about 4 different appetizers.
A couple had steaks, one was [...]

Santa Cruz is a pretty place to live. There are the coastal ocean front properties that command high prices, like any beautiful place would. There are mountains to hike, with soaring redwoods and vista of the mountains, valleys and the seas. Nearby there are places like New Brighton Beach where you can camp on the [...]

Santa Cruz, California is like many other towns. We have a mix of seniors, the college and working class, and tourists. With such you have a wide variety of housing needs and types. Santa Cruz real estate varies from new to old. Whether the home is old or new, they all are required to have [...]

How can you help the hungry seniors and poor in Santa Cruz?
A local organization in Santa Cruz, Ag Against Hunger, will be having last “gleaning” session on November 15th. The volunteers will be treated to a BBQ when done. Won’t you join? Call (831) 755-1480. You need to pre-register by the 13th to do help [...]

Santa Cruz Home Prices change
September 2008-Santa Cruz home sales medians for Santa Cruz County. Santa Cruz home buyers, are still buying single family residences and condos.
For the first time I can recall in recent memory the total real estate sales in the Watsonville real estate market exceeded that of Santa Cruz homebuyers.The Watsonville real estate [...]

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