Live Oak News

A man was struck in the head by a rock while he was chasing teenagers who had thrown stones through his window about 5:30 p.m. Monday.

More than 250 Mid-County residents turned out at Live Oak Elementary School on Tuesday night to hear how a windfall of local tax money might be spent on their community.

Live Oak may one day be home to a new Sheriff's Office headquarters. That's one of the proposals in a freshly minted plan to reshape Mid-County using millions of dollars of public money.

The California Highway Patrol won a $1 million grant from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to strengthen statewide enforcement and education efforts to have people buckle up safely, the CHP announced this week.

Construction of the first certified green church in the county is kicking off as the United Methodist Church of Santa Cruz breaks ground for the project today.

On Tuesday, Nov. 10, at 7 p.m. the Board of Supervisors will hold an historic first meeting at Live Oak Elementary when the board will hear the community's input on the five-year plan for the County's Redevelopment Agency .

After decades of silence, the 95-year-old school bell that lived in Live Oak's one-room schoolhouse rang out loud and clear once again on Wednesday morning in its new home at Live Oak Elementary School.

Officers from five law enforcement agencies targeted gang members living in Live Oak and Watsonville who are on probation or parole Wednesday.

Live Oak lighting designer Johnson Art Studio will hold "Lighting Up the Future" from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Nov.

He and his writing partner John Harden won the award in a competition that considered close to 4,000 scripts.

Making a Difference Saturday was Volunteer Day for hundreds of people in Santa Cruz County on the annual Make a Difference Day.

The principal of the school that sold the grand prize raffle ticket in this year's Drive For Schools fundraiser is ecstatic, she said, because the win may help them raise more funds next year.

Today is Colter White's day in court. White, a Cabrillo College honor student and ex-con, will have a closed-door hearing to determine if his parole should be revoked based on the statement of one man he had problems with at a Narcotics Anonymous meeting.

In the wake of a fatal stabbing that took the life of a Santa Cruz High School junior, city police and school officials announced Monday they will host a community meeting about gang violence Wednesday evening.

People who turn to espresso during the rainy season might find a perk missing from Lulu Carpenter's this fall.

Rep. Anna Eshoo, D-Palo Alto, has scheduled another town hall meeting to discuss health care in Santa Cruz County -- Oct.

Central Fire Chief Bruce Clark is planning to retire in December after more than eight years on the job with Santa Cruz County's largest independent fire agency.

Santa Cruz City Councilwoman Lynn Robinson, as part of the city's earthquake anniversary series, will moderate a forum on emergency planning Thursday.

Painter Tracey Adams and pianist Richard Grayson will team up for a night of improvisational art at 7 p.m. today in the Museum of Art and History's Atrium, 705 Front St.

A man who allegedly broke into a house of someone he knew, got into a physical altercation with that person and stole the key to the person's truck and evaded sheriff's deputies and Capitola police officers during a high-speed chase through a residential neighborhood Thursday afternoon, the Sheriff's Office reported.