Park on Patch for Small Business Saturday

Here’s one good reason to support your local businesses in Santa Cruz this Saturday: Parking will be free.
Patch’s “Park on Patch”campaign, in partnership with American Express, has selected Santa Cruz as one of 50 towns across the country to get free parking on Nov. 30 for Small Business Saturday.
The parking meters will be covered to identify the free parking spaces. Patch will [...]

Homeless Garden Project fills holiday store with feel-good gifts

By cat ferguson, Santa Cruz Sentinel -POSTED:   11/24/2013 02:54:19 PM PST

Kevin Holley shapes straw wreath hoops at the Homeless Garden project. (Shmuel Thaler/Sentinel

SANTA CRUZ — Homeless Garden Project volunteers are filling their workshop with bright colors and the scents of lavender and dried flowers as they weave wreaths for the annual holiday store.
The store will [...]

Zoccoli’s to name sandwich for the Warriors

From Santa Cruz Patch
By the speed with which they disappeared, the new Santa Cruz Warriors sandwich should probably be the Tri-Tip.By the speed with which they disappeared, the new Santa Cruz Warriors sandwich should probably be the Tri-Tip. But maybe that was a hanging chad or some cheese. Zoccoli’s Deli manager Patty Zoccoli wanted to [...]

UCSC Basketball Teams Head to Kaiser Permanente Arena

SANTA CRUZ — After watching a Santa Cruz Warriors home game alongside the D-League basketball team’s president, it took UC Santa Cruz chancellor George Blumenthal just 27 minutes to convince a committee that the Banana Slugs should play their games Kaiser Permanente Arena.
On Tuesday, UCSC and the Warriors officially announced they had reached an agreement [...]