Twin Lakes News

A crowd of volunteers turned up at Twin Lakes Church on Monday morning to help sort and load thousands of pounds of food for an ever-increasing number of needy local residents.

Soft Rock KWAV 97 FM is making a special appeal to all of our at work listeners to join us in helping to feed those in need in neighborhoods throughout the Central Coast.

This time of year, most people aren't thinking about sunny days at the beach. However, managers of state parks are, and they're worried.

Holiday Harvest has taken on a new importance this year as families turn to our local food banks in record numbers.

The goal of Project Pajamas is to provide a new pair of PJs to every child in a homeless shelter or other form of emergency housing in Santa Cruz County.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Santa Cruz County still has a ways to go in this year's fundraising campaign to meet its $40,000 goal.

Dick and Brian Peixoto of Lakeside Organic Gardens recently received recognition from the Second Harvest Food Bank for generously donating thousands of pounds of vegetables over the past few years.

A jury on Friday convicted a former investment broker who recently lived in Aptos and attended Twin Lakes Church of 20 charges in a securities fraud case that involved bilking investors out of tens of thousands of dollars.

The Santa Cruz County Association of Realtors and its Housing Foundation will sponsor the third annual Santa Cruz County Housing Expo 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at Twin Lakes Church's Monschke Hall, 2701 Cabrillo College Drive.

California Peake Rueger, a former resident of Santa Cruz County who taught in local elementary schools for 20 years, will turn 103 years old this month.

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Every year, the dredge at the Santa Cruz harbor sucks up about 250,000 cubic yards of sand and pumps it out onto Twin Lakes Beach where it continues its journey down coast.

Capitola officials want to talk with the state about taking over New Brighton State Beach if the popular destination remains on a closure list as part of budget cost-cutting. Mayor Bob Begun confirmed that city officials have asked to meet with Assemblymember Bill Monning about the possibility.

Nine-year-old Mason Martuscelli walked down to Twin Lakes State Beach in Santa Cruz one sunny July day with his mother, sister and grandma.

Christian Hesch spent the night before the 36th annual Wharf to Wharf Race preparing his body like any professional athlete would -- camped out inside his cramped Subaru with his wife and two kids on the streets of Santa Cruz.

California authorities failed Tuesday to find a Sun Valley mother who abducted some of her children and was said to have spent the night in Mono County.

S AVE OUR SHORES' July Fourth "Pollution Prevention Is Patriotic" efforts dramatically decreased the amount of trash left behind on Santa Cruz County beaches after the fun and often rowdy Fourth of July celebrations.

" Tom Sullivan, owner of Amsterdam Bicycles on East Cliff Drive, knows all too well the problem with riding from his shop at 12th Avenue toward Santa Cruz: the narrow and sometimes harrowing stretch of road along Schwan Lake.

County administrators have decided not to move ahead with a private place bond from the state, a move that would have essentially loaned county money to California to pay for state projects locally.

Paramedics and law enforcement agencies hustled all day responding to a constant stream of calls, for what began as a relatively calm Fourth of July, officers reported.