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Photo of the Day: As the Going Gets Tough, the Street Musicians Get More Enterprising
Lonnie Campbell plays a lot of rabbit songs in Watsonville, Aptos and Santa Cruz with his two rabbits.
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Brad Kava, Patch Staff
- Santa Cruz, CA
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I've loved journalism and Santa Cruz for as long as I can remember. A New York native schooled in Berkeley, my first stop on the West Coast was the smaller city on the bay–the Monterey Bay–and it was love at first sight.
I learned about what it means to cover a community here and to be part of a running dialogue doing a news talk radio show. My perfect life would be sitting on Pacific Avenue and talking to every person who walks by and discovering their story. And, that's my job, basically. What could be better?
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Santa Cruz Harbor Slowly Being Rebuilt a Year Later
Only two destroyed docks have been built with 21 more to go.
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Harbor High School Students Go a Week Without the Internet or Texting
They made a video to show you their plight.
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Rush Limbaugh to Stay on KSCO in Santa Cruz
Saying Limbaugh has made mistakes and apologized, and that his audience voted to keep the broadcaster, KSCO-AM (1080) owner Michael Zwerling said he will keep Limbaugh's show.
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Fukushima Meltdown, Cover-Up Documentary Shows in Santa Cruz
A year after a 9.0 earthquake and tsunami killed 30,000 people and caused a nuclear meltdown, a San Francisco filmmaker brings a shocking documentary to Santa Cruz.
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KSCO Leaves It Up to Listeners to Decide on Keeping Rush Limbaugh
Listeners were at first for Limbaugh, but national publicity brought in thousands of votes and crashed the poll.
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Westside Parents Education Nursery Is Readers'Choice for Best Preschool
Parents are required to work at this school...but they love it.
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Decision on UCSC Expansion Held Off Wednesday
The battle over UCSC's growth has been raging since the 2,000-acre campus opened with 3,600 students in 1965. It now has 16,332.
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UPDATE: SCPD Arrest 7 Youths in Wednesday Beach Flats Stabbing
Stabbed many times, the visitor was flown to a Santa Clara trauma center. Two Santa Cruz youths, 15 and 16 have been arrested and the victim's condition has been raised to serious from critical.
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Boy, 15, Arrested for Car Theft, Hit and Run After Crashing into Safeway
Police chased the white pickup until it crashed into a home.
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UPDATED Three Alleged Gang Members who Robbed a High School Student Arrested Tuesday
As a Santa Cruz Police officer was taking the report from the victim, they saw a car carrying the alleged assailants pull into burger, the restaurant at Mission and Bay streets.
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Tender Mercies Shows No Mercy in Stunning Debut
This new band, which is a Counting Crows side project, showed a small Santa Cruz audience they are ready for the big time.
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Stolen Tools, Hypodermic Needles and Psilocybin Mushrooms Lead to Arrests
Beach Boardwalk security officers called Santa Cruz Police after witnessing an alleged theft of tools.
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Alleged Business Burglar Caught by SCPD
The alarm was still sounding when Santa Cruz Police pulled up on a suspect.
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Readers' Choice: Where is the Best Preschool?
You want your child's first experience away from home to be a positive first step. What preschool would you send readers to?
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Menlo Girls Defeat Santa Cruz to Win CCS Championship
Hard-fought win in San Jose brings trophy to soccer program.
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Santa Cruz Eyesores: Graffiti by Dominican Hospital and Harbor High School
Is something around town bothering you that you want city officials to know about? Post it here. You can even upload pictures.
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James Durbin Peforms with Orianthi for Rock School Scholarship Fund
The Santa Cruz native, who placed fourth on American Idol last year, benefited from a music scholarship and is now giving back.
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Santa Cruz Police Arrest Woman Keying Cars in Parking Garage
Witnesses spotted her and called police Thursday night.
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Santa Cruz Police Arrest Two on Counterfeiting Charge
A man and woman tried to pass a counterfeit $100 bill at a restaurant on the 900 block of Ocean Street, police said. It took a foot chase to catch one of them.
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