Soquel News

Q How many fatalities have happened on Bear Creek Road in the Santa Cruz Mountains? I use it for our daily commute, and most of us are all business on the road.

Jade Street Park has been selected for "Heart Your Park," a program introduced as part of Macy's "Secret Garden" campaign to raise awareness and dollars for local parks across the country.

"Norm and Burny: The Black Square" by Jay Hosler and Peggy Harrison. Illustrated by Mindy Alper.

Rabbits with those characteristics will be at the Rabbit Haven adoption event from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday at Pet Pals, 3660 Soquel Drive in Soquel.

Food, music and murder, oh my! All this is happening right now in Felton at The Trout Farm Inn, 7701 E. Zayante Rd., where Elf Empire Productions will present the final showing of its current Murder Mystery Dinner Theater.

To the hundreds of worshippers at St. Joseph's Catholic Community, Ash Wednesday is more than just preparing for the 40 days of Lent.

Western Design Gallery of Tile & Stone will host a grand opening 5-7 p.m. Thursday at 6996 Soquel Ave., celebrating relocation of the tile gallery inventory from 730 Soquel Ave. Joe and Melody Callero, who owned Western Design since 1973, bought the tile inventory after learning the gallery was closing.

A party was thrown at a large house on Skyward Drive off Trout Gulch Road, and party guests were mostly Soquel, Harbor and Aptos high school students.

For the first time, students in the middle of the pack are getting the attention of Soquel Unified Elementary School District.

The Santa Cruz Chamber of Commerce plans a networking mixer 5-7 p.m. Wednesday at the R. Blitzer Gallery, 2801 Mission St. in the old Wrigley Building.

Fiona Nink, Lola Weiser, Natasha Golden and Kayley Batt enjoy recess at Orchard School recently.

Thank TV reruns of Gene Autry and "Rin-Tin-Tin" for helping "Rawhide Annie" achieve a full and fulfilling life for herself, her family but also for the public.

The Soquel Unified Elementary School District and its teachers' union have reached a tentative contract agreement, which would give teachers their first raise in nearly six years.

Well we had a couple days of winter and the river was happy to rise. The San Lorenzo crested at 407 cubic feet per second with the early February rains.

Rabbit Haven, a Scotts Valley-based rabbit foster program, will be displaying 25 adoptable rabbits, including Guenther, a cuddly young lop bunny.

An internationally renown therapist, teacher, author and storyteller will be in Santa Cruz on Saturday to teach others how to tap into their immense personal storehouses of creativity and healing.

For John Bargetto, the annual ritual marks the start of the wine-grape growing season, or as he likes to think of it, the beginning of a gestation that will bear fruit nine months from now.

A 57-year-old Soquel man charged with more than a dozen counts of child molestation in two separate cases will have them consolidated into one, Santa Cruz County prosecutors said Wednesday.

More than 100 exhibitors are participating in "Sail Into Success," this year's Business Showcase sponsored by the Aptos and Capitola-Soquel chambers of commerce 4-7 p.m. Thursday, February 20 at the Capitola Mall, 1855 41st Ave. New and vintage vehicles will be on display.

Jorge Luis Mendoza and Cesar Velasquez Hernandez, both 18, were arrested and booked into the Monterey County Jail on suspicion of attempted murder, Seaside police said Tuesday.