Aptos Times: May 15, 2024

Aptos High Valedictorians & Salutatorians • PVUSD Gets $32 Million to Transform Schools, By Jondi Gumz • Home Insurance Crisis: My Story, By Jondi Gumz • PVUSD: One of the Best for Music Education • Land of Medicine Buddha Stupathon • Emeril’s Garden is Growing at Starlight Elementary, Story and Photos by Jondi Gumz • How to Search for Home Insurance • Guy Kawasaki: 10 Tips for Small Business Owners, By Jondi Gumz • A Flock of Pelicans in Seacliff • Summer Reading Kickoff at Aptos Library • Summer at the Library: Read, Renew, Repeat + Prizes • Watsonville Community Hospital Progress Report: Finances Improving, AI Pilot in Emergency Department, By Jondi Gumz • Phyllis Stark, Chief Nursing Officer at Watsonville Community Hospital • Three-Year Plan to Reduce Homelessness • Welcome Back, Captain Grimm • Thrive Market Settles Automatic Renewal Lawsuit for $1.55 Million • Boat Captain Sentenced to 4 Years in Fire that Killed 34 • Farmworker Housing Progress Report • Whale City Bakery Open • Highway 1 Widening & Rail Trail Construction • Free Well Water Testing Program • Marcela Tavantzis Appointed to Pajaro Valley Healthcare District Board • Government in Action: Students Learn in Washington, D.C. • South County Government Center Opens May 20 • Fentanyl Kills 133 in Santa Cruz County • State Grants $1 Million To Fight Fentanyl Poisoning • Metro Ad Campaign Wins 4 Hermes Awards: Marketing Maven Danielle Giagola Named Rising Star • 2024 Rather Awards: Mónica Morales, PVPSA, Positive Discpline Community Resources • Aptos High School’s Top Swimmers at CCS • Boys Volleyball All League 2023-24 … and much more!