Month: December 2016

It’s the final Weekly Dump of 2016! This week, we’re discussing the big NYE celebration on Pacific, the shooting in Beach Flats Park, gun brandished at Denny’s, road rage assault with a machete, Christmas morning bum fight at the HSC, Willie the Groundskeeper possibly spotted on Coral street, Coast Guard water rescue off Natural Bridges, low income evictions days before Christmas, Martin Bernal’s job security, child rapist comes back to Santa Cruz, Prop 47 failures, Chip tries to bring Downtown Streets Team to Santa Cruz, why NextDoor sucks, Guerreros, it’s a wonderful life, My 2017 resolutions, Weekly Shoutouts, and the usual self serving promos.

It’s the penultimate edition of the Weekly Dump for 2016! It’s not “Ozymandias” but it’s still got plenty of drama. We’ve got more on Violeta Cervantes’s trial date, Artisan’s Gallery gets robbed, SCPD nabs purse snatcher, meth dealers busted in Beach Flats, car chase on Mission, car dumped on Barson, a couple more busted windows and breakins, Rotten Robbie robbed!, junker RV with a beach view for rent, squatter on Lincoln, feds throw $2M at Santa Cruz homeless, 37 homeless die in 2016 locally, Starving Musician coming to Pacific, the Surf Colony, Guerreros, Weekly Shoutouts, and a few other choice nugs of vibrant weekly reality.

What a crazy week. Even by Santa Cruz standards. We’re talking more about the rain, the double shooting in Soquel, the Pono/Reef smash and grab, the senseless death of Scott Brunton, drivers on acid on 17, a road rage, a garage rage, man rescued in Henry Cowell, the fat lady sings for Micah, Hugh’s News, Lobo Day, Project ROPE, Guerreros, Kum Ba Yah in the rain, Weekly Shoutouts, Local Food Porn, and maybe a few other things.

This week in the Dump, we’ve got a 6.5 earthquake in the Pacific, dead transients at the Holiday Parade, crazy guy evades police by wading into the San Lorenzo river, Feds consider action against the Polar Express train, Janus helps SCPD save lives, another SCPD car chase downtown, local kooks protest having banks, fight at the 515, free locals day at Monterey Aquarium, love is all around, Guerreros, and a few self serving plugs bring up the rear as usual.

In this week’s Dump, we’ve got the annual downtown Holiday Parade on Pacific Avenue, shoppers support Small Business Saturday, another robbery and shooting on the levee, domestic disturbance on Grant, Grey Bears annual Holiday Dinner at the Civic, crash and fire on Highway 1, UCSC student nearly kidnapped, new Fairfield Inn opens on the westside, new development update for 1400 Ocean, the library as a parking garage, Strike Out Hunger at the Boardwalk Bowl, City Hall to You Redux, Christmas train overload, Guerreros, DeCinzotized, The Weekly Seen, Weekly Shoutouts, and more.