“The bacon breakfast taco is our most popular Saturday market item. With regards to our English-style pies, which we sell at the downtown and Scotts Valley farmers’ markets, the most popular item is the pulled pork pie with apple barbecue sauce,” says Kaye.
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Letters to the Editor: Oct 24-Oct 31
With the November election quickly approaching, voters in Santa Cruz County are abuzz about desalination and the fifth district supervisor race between Bruce McPherson and Eric Hammer.
Santa Cruz Young Writers to Host Benefit Event
An arm of the nonprofit Santa Cruz Writes, the Young Writers Program brings trained volunteers into classrooms to help kids with their writing through one-on-one attention. Each classroom’s writing project is on a topic of the individual teacher’s choosing.
Homeless Proposals Face Challanges
When Charles Edwards, a mentally ill homeless man from San Francisco, stabbed Camouflage co-owner Shannon Collins on Ocean Street in May, he sent shockwaves through the Santa Cruz community. “Everyone felt so much pressure to act,” Rowland Rebele says of the intense debate over the city’s homeless problem that arose after Collins’ murder.
A Great Year for Grapes
Winemaker Jeff Emery of Santa Cruz Mountain Vineyard is thrilled with his grapes this year. “Twice as much pinot noir as last year,” he revealed, in the midst of forklifting grapes into his cellar.
How We Remember
When I was about four years old I had a play date at Meryl Streep’s house. It was just an informal kind of a thing where my dad, who built sculptures designed by Streep’s husband, Don Gummer, dumped me off at the front door and picked me up a few hours later. I remember very little: getting lost in a maze of hallways, losing my velcro-fastened shoes and hanging out with the Gummer girls in a large bathroom, where they seemed to do a lot of their hanging out.
Q&A: Orin Martin
What gets me up and into the garden daily is I am a creature of habit, creature of doses—doing the same thing in the same way day after day after day. I’m afraid I’m locked in to being a servant of the seasons and the morning’s early light. Actually it’s a privilege. I/we teach people to grow plants organically, the applications are many and varied. It’s powerful.
Letters to the Editor: Oct 17-23
Readers weigh in with some health skepticism. They discuss possible treatments for depression and the tricky games of the upcoming election.
Piedmont Celebrating 100th Anniversary
Santa Cruzans took notice when they heard a new hotel apartment building on High Street would be heated by steam. That’s because in 1912, most homes were heated by wooden flame. “The whole point of building was to adopt the most modern and efficient innovations at the time,” local historian Ross Eric Gibson says of the Piedmont Court building, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this weekend.
Hammer Campaign Pledges to Keep Clean
The supervisor’s race isn’t just getting personal. This time, it’s…hypothetical. The Weekly received a press release from the Eric Hammer for 5th District Supervisor campaign that reads, “Both my opponent and I signed the Code of Fair Campaign Practices pledging to run a clean campaign and I am sticking by my pledge. I challenge him to do the same and to denounce any negative campaign activities.”
