Capitola News

Donate a toy or two to help make this holiday season joyful. Shmuel Thaler/Sentinel file If you want to give back to the community this holiday season, the Volunteer Centers of Santa Cruz County has a number of opportunities.

One lane of Highway 9 near Coral Street will be closed for about an hour beginning at 9 a.m. today so a work crew can repair the pavement, city officials reported.

The City Council voted 3-2 Thursday night to ban smoking on the Esplanade, Stockton Bridge, the wharf and city parks.

In response to customer concerns about rising water rates, the board of the Soquel Creek Water District reduced its planned increase for 2010.

Celebrate the coming of the Christmas season and San Jose's proximity to the beach all in one event! Surfin' Santa & The Reindeer will be surfing in to Capitola at the main beach on Saturday, November 28th at 12:00 PM.

The Capitola Begonia Festival Committee is looking for an extraordinary piece of art produced by a local artist to serve as the official poster for the 58th Annual Capitola Begonia Festival next September.

When the statewide smoking ban took effect in 1999, Capitola's cigarette and cigar puffers were driven outdoors.

Capitola's city councilmen voted four-to-one Nov. 12 to look at both the Rispin mansion property on Soquel Creek and the current Wharf Road library site across the street to build a larger, permanent branch.

The Capitola Police Department landed a $478,654 grant for a countywide DUI enforcement campaign two weeks after the county had two fatal alcohol-related crashes.

For anyone who has spent time near the shores of the Monterey Bay the sight of the dolphin has become one of the most revered and spectacular of any marine mammal.

The day that I read Ron Marquez's defense of the status quo transportation paradigm in the Sentinel, I also perused the city of Santa Cruz's draft climate action plan.

The man killed in a hit-and-run while crossing Laurel Street at Felix Friday was a 60-year-old tailor from India who recently filed to have his children and grandchildren to move to America, according to his family.

Either the existing library location on Wharf Road or the Rispin property across the street: The city will explore those two sites to determine which would be best for a new larger 7,000-square-foot library.

A man in the Jewel Box neighborhood was stabbed at least twice while trying to fend off his attacker with a wooden 4-by-4 post Wednesday afternoon.

Capitola wants to raise space rents to $400-$600 a month for part-time residents at Pacific Cove Mobile Home Park, generating $47,000 to $90,000 a year for the city's depleted treasury, but Pacific Cove residents are contesting the move.

To celebrate the release of her latest novel, Dancing With Butterflies , award-winning author Reyna Grande has been touring the US.

Medical marijuana already may be legal in California, but a new push to legalize and tax the drug, either for medicine or entertainment, is gaining new momentum.

A citizen's ad hoc committee, the library director and residents in attendance Nov.

Mark Cotter/Contributed Okeanis researchers captured this photo of a bottlenose dolphin attacking a harbor porpoise in the Monterey Bay in September.

The location of the new larger Capitola library branch remains undecided after a 2-2 vote by the City Council Wednesday night.