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Santa Cruz Sentinel

• 2009 Tour of California: Route to Santa Cruz includes two big climbs

  SANTA CRUZ -- When Santa Cruz Mayor Ryan Coonerty announced the route of the Santa Cruz stage of the 2009 Tour of California on Thursday, he noted it includes two "moderate" climbs.

• Housing back on the table for Aptos' former Par 3 site

  APTOS -- Just when it appeared the debate over what to do with the former Par 3 golf course was settled, another controversy seems imminent.

• Key figures in Capitola preschool controversy named to top spots

  CAPITOLA -- Key figures in the Jade Street Park dispute have ascended to the helm of two agencies locked in opposition to a controversial preschool proposal.

• Teen stabbed in quiet Watsonville neighborhood

  A 14-year-old walking home through a quiet neighborhood was stabbed multiple times just after 4:30 p.

• Santa Cruz police tactical unit gets new truck thanks to $80K grant

  Santa Cruz police unveiled their latest crime-fighting vehicle Thursday: a burly black truck that will haul the department's Emergency Services Unit and all of the officers' gear to police standoffs and dicey search warrant situations.

• Pair will go to trial for 2006 Watsonville stabbing death

  Two gang members accused of randomly killing a father-to-be will face murder charges at trial, a judge ruled Thursday.

• Rivas, Skillicorn to lead Watsonville Council

  Antonio Rivas will lead the Watsonville City Council through a year of financial challenges that officials believe will almost certainly lead to layoffs and program cuts.

• Begun takes over as Capitola mayor

  The mayor's gavel passed to Robert Begun Thursday, when the City Council voted unanimously to give him the council's top job.

• Propane tank move weighed by Scotts Valley planning commission

  Planning leaders listened to more than 35 people express fear and support about the possibility of a liquid gas company moving to an industrial spot on Janis Way, which is near Scotts Valley Drive and runs along Highway 17.

• Pagano says PCS counteroffer is 'more reasonable"

  The Santa Cruz City Schools chief said he will encourage his board to "seriously consider" a counteroffer received from Pacific Collegiate School on Thursday to extend the charter school's lease of district property.

San Jose Mercury

• Santa Cruz faces major cuts, layoffs, closures as leaders try to close $7 million deficit

  SANTA CRUZ — Close the Beach Flats Community Center. Close the Harvey West Pool. Close the Museum of Natural History and the Surfing Museum.

• Santa Cruz school No. 3 in nation

  Five area schools have been honored among the top 100 high schools in the United States by U.S. News & World Report.

• $1,000 reward offered for leads in Heron shooting

  The International Bird Rescue and Research Center is offering up to $1,000 for information leading to the arrest of the person who fatally shot a great blue heron in Santa Cruz County last month.

• Scotts Valley bans foam take-out containers

  Scotts Valley has become the latest community to ban foam take-out food containers. The council unanimously agreed Wednesday to prohibit polystyrene cups and boxes at all restaurants and food vendors in Scotts Valley as a way to cut down on trash that can sit in landfills for hundreds of years and

• High-speed rail backers look to Obama Democrats for next funding wave

  The economy may be bad, but supporters of a 220-mph high-speed rail system between the Bay Area and Los Angeles are looking with hope to Obama's federal stimulus package and other Democratic public works bills for cash.

  • Vote: When will a high-speed rail system open in California?
• Tree sitters, UCSC officials enter mediation to end 13-month protest

  ree sitters and UC Santa Cruz officials are in talks aimed at reaching a peaceful end to the 13-month protest at the site of a planned biomedical facility on Science Hill.

• Fire destroys home in Bonny Doon

  A home was completely destroyed by a fire in Santa Cruz County this morning, according to a Cal Fire dispatcher.

• Cassidy: The economic ripples continue

  The demise of Santa Cruz Harley shows that sometimes when a small business closes, a community loses more than just the business. Sometimes it loses a little bit of itself, too.

  • More economic crisis news
• Felton woman describes crash that killed her husband

  A Felton woman who survived a drunken-driving collision that killed her husband three days ago recalled the horrific crash as friends helped her begin to figure out how to live without her high school sweetheart and the family's sole breadwinner.

• Two lawyers identified as pilot, passenger injured in Monterey plane crash

  The pilot and passenger of a Piper Cherokee that crashed while approaching Monterey Peninsula Airport on Tuesday have been identified as Carmel Valley attorney Alexander "Zan" Henson and Santa Cruz attorney Jim Rummonds.