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SANTA CRUZ >> After millions of jet noise complaints were filed since March 2015 by Santa Cruz County and Bay Area residents, a controversial flight path over Soquel, Capitola and the Summit may be returning to its original ground track over Santa Cruz's Westside and the San Lorenzo Valley ridgeline as early as August 2018. Rep. Jimmy Panetta announced the timeline at a public Save Our Skies Santa Cruz County meeting Dec. 2, where he appeared with Santa Cruz County Supervisor John Leopold, who confirmed that Panetta made the statement.
Field workers bring in the strawberry harvest from one of the fields along San Andreas Road this week. SANTA CRUZ >> Until recently, organic strawberry growers had no choice but to move their crop from field to field to keep a step ahead of crippling soil diseases.
Officials in the sanctuary city of Santa Cruz, California, are angry over reports that during a series of joint raids that netted suspected gang members, ICE also detained people because of their immigration status. Santa Cruz police said they only participated in the raids after being assured by senior officials with the Department of Homeland Security that no one would be taken into custody for being an undocumented immigrant.
PALO ALTO >> An airplane noise committee will hear draft recommendations Thursday that could offer relief to South Bay, Peninsula and Santa Cruz residents furious over jet roar from new flight paths the federal government imposed in recent years to improve efficiency. But it remains uncertain whether residents will get the relief they want - people living in different areas want different solutions, and there's no recommendation on a key question of switching a route for southern arrivals.
For the first time in a year, North Coast state Sen. Mike McGuire said he had good news for the Dungeness and rock crab fishing fleet in California. “We are not expecting a repeat of the massive coastwide closures the fleet experienced in 2015-2016,” McGuire said during a state committee hearing in Bodega Bay on Tuesday.