Squirrels and baking soda! The hot stories of the week! We’ve got them and we’ve also got car thieves without excuses, the city’s fuzzy math, gun threats in Aptos, an attempted stabbing in Watsonville, the gift that keeps on giving, a burglary in Aptos, Jelli Beanz, don’t text and drive, motorcyclist hit on Mission, the ex part makes sense, jeepers creepers, Jim Hart needs your help, recall petition updates, Brian Howe, Weekly Shoutouts and thanks, and more!

Time for the latest Weekly Dump! This week, SCPD investigates voter intimidation by a handful of disruptive kooks downtown, a woman steals from Safeway and nearly runs over SCPD doing it, a Watsonville man is arrested for filming himself sexually assaulting kids, pounds of drugs, a death at Deadman’s campground, Camp Bernal poster boy arrested for selling heroin, asking to get caught, skidding along Coral street, local couch potato arrested, getting jiggy with it, where to sign the recall petition this week, yacht rock at the Boardwalk, weekly shoutouts and thanks, and more!

This week, we’ve got a former Aptos babysitter getting 30 years for producing child pornography, bums smoking meth in the kid’s playhouse at the Santa Cruz Bible Church, drunk beats up his elderly parents for breakfast, downtown drunk bumper cars, lost boys, the crystal method, the gifts that keep on giving in 4 part harmony, evading the turnstile, fun at Frenchy’s, drunk woman caught at Cabrillo, Watsonville playground torched by arsonist, Downtown Forward?, Drew Glover needs some Common Sense, recall petition updates and where to sign this week, free Foghat at the Boardwalk, and weekly shoutouts and thanks!

It sounds like a war zone outside. Oh, it’s just the 4th of July in Santa Cruz, where fireworks are both illegal and everywhere. In other news, we had three people shot in Watsonville, another recidivist home invasion burglar gets arrested again, a Watsonville standoff ends peacefully, gang banging on the westside, local shoplifters nabbed in stolen car, John Doe 2019, someone steals a plane from the Watsonville airport, accident clogs up Highway 1, plant carnage at the Home Depot, recall petition updates, and Pride and Joy at the Boardwalk.

The recall is on and people are signing petitions this week! We’re also talking about a murder in Watsonville last week, a 12 year old boy dies in stolen car crash, a Watsonville gang member arrested as a stabbing suspect, meth is the gas that feeds the machine, Santa Cruz United launches recall efforts, a tough pill to swallow, man falls off the wharf, police arrest the king of pain, falling into the poop chute, making his rounds, Cowells still stinks, the goats are back, Everclear at the Boardwalk, the Weekly Seen, and more!

Food trucks on Pacific this Friday! Woodies on the Wharf this Saturday! It’s a vehicular party this weekend in Santa Cruz. But we’ve also got the usual mess of cess which I’ll try not to obsess about. We did have a couple of shootings in Aptos this week, low hanging fruit in Live Oak, vagrants up to no good on Graham Hill road, Home Depot wants their stuff back, blanket brawl on Main Beach, pain in the ass turns himself in, grand jury calls out issues with the local jails, Woodies on the Wharf, Food Truck Summer Series comes to Pacific Avenue, Smash Mouth at the Boardwalk, and more!

The Dog Days of Summer are upon us! And the fog is back! We’ve also got a shooting up near the summit of Highway 17, a home invasion robbery in Ben Lomond, a couple of vehicle vs. pedestrian accidents, the county discusses reforming their needle handouts, a consultant calls the city out, tourists from Turlock, doing dumb stuff on meth, local skidmarks, good morning Felton, a bad place to camp, a quick stop before jail, good samaritan recognized by SCPD, the Weekly Seen, the English Beat, and more!

This week, we’ve got an extradited murder suspect sitting in Santa Cruz county jail, we had a woman who was run over near Cedar and Maple streets, we’ve got a serial recidivist who nearly killed himself after he stole and crashed and burned a Parks and Rec truck, we’ve got a guy arrested 91 times locally who died of a heart attack, we’ve got someone hit in the head with a hatchet, an east cliff burglar busted, stealing your face, SCPD is picking up bum trash again, picking up low hanging fruit, someone needs a Lyft, the usual bad behavior downtown, Santa Cruz United for change on the city council, and local company Looker gets bought by Google for more than 2 BILLION dollars.

We’re just past Memorial Day weekend and things are heating up locally, even if the weather isn’t. We had a stabbing near the Boardwalk, a shooting near Jose Park, guns drawn on Mission street, the gift that keeps on giving, drunk and disorderly, pedestrian killed near Davenport, she really wanted to go to jail, Boulder Creek accident sends victim to trauma unit, fire torches Branciforte home, Sup dummies, El Bus del Payaso Corto, the Weekly Seen, bye bye Theta Chi, bye Chip, and the Happy Story of the Week is back!

It’s Memorial Day weekend and the “unofficial” start of summer. And that nasty old drug camp is gone just in time! And this week, the local group dumping their needles there got shut down too after they pulled their application to dump more needles. We also have a body found near Moran Lake, a home invasion burglary in Aptos, the usual hot mess at the Metro, an early morning stabbing in Aptos, the gift that keeps on giving, a fire torches the Hideout in Aptos (more Aptos!), octogenarian arrested on skid row, inmate dies in Watsonville, forgetting your needles and stolen property, it’s not really a camp, new public safety center opens in Aptos (more Aptos!), car takes out pole at Mission and Bay, rail trail over Lost Boys bridge done, and we celebrate our 3rd anniversary of bringing you the vibrantly honest truth weekly.

It’s been a very long time since I haven’t had the displeasure of talking about a certain camp named after a certain city manager but this is the week! Cause it’s gone daddy gone, the love is gone away. Gone away. But in other news, another woman was punched in the face downtown this week, a pregnant woman was assaulted at the Aptos Taco Bell, we’ve got a baseball bat beating in front of the Homeless Services Center, nobody wants more needles, SCPD chases gunman near the Boardwalk, man tased downtown, complying the hard way, Rescued Treasures hit again, busted in the head with a bottle near the Boardwalk, the gift that keeps on giving, drunk woman kills teen on Highway 17, just give them a reason to pull you over, Springtime for Hitler, all that glitters isn’t gold, Gonzalez to be tried as an adult, Weekly Shoutouts, and more!

The day is finally here! We say a long overdue adios to Camp Bernal (but not the bums who trashed it), we had a small explosion in the camp after last week’s threats to “blow something up”, 3.2 million in the hole, downtown loser arrested for punching innocent woman in the face, ace is the place, car goes over cliff off Highway 1, I’d hate to be their neighbors, slugs and drugs, big rig rollover on 17, OD at India Joze, the shittiest parents of the week, paint it black, late night vagrancy downtown, DeCinzotized returns, and more.

It’s finally here! I can finally stop talking about Camp Bernal (after this week of course), we’ve got a local dingleberry inciting riots, common sense prevails over idiot compassion, a woman was reportedly raped and kicked in the head at the drug camp, brawling in the New Leaf parking lot, domestic abuse leads to much more trouble, Bear Fire suspect pleads guilty, rooftop disturbance ends peacefully, man arrested on gun charges after work fight, multiple businesses burglarized on Soquel, transient car thief arrested in Scotts Valley, just beat it, early morning fire torches local motel, the Weekly Seen is back, giving cats a forever home, and we’re celebrating good times with Kool and the Gang!

We’ve got a big old Weekly Dump for you this week! We’re talking about the court delay to the inevitable closing of Camp Bernal, a child finds a needle on Seabright beach during KION interview, a woman is stabbed in Seabright, a man is attacked with a hatchet in Watsonville, a walk in the park, bum breaks Lyft drivers windshield downtown, Watsonville police get guns off the street, stolen car shows up in an obvious location, asleep at the wheel, high speed chase on Highway 17, trying to get arrested, San Jose woman arrested for downtown robbery, just another Friday morning downtown, coffee shop thief arrested in Aptos, man falls of West Cliff, the big meh, Common Sense, local firefighters go ballistic, and more!

This week, we’re trying to stop bad ideas before they manifest themselves (yet again), Colt drops the hammer, drunken bottle brawl on Pacific Avenue, robbery and stabbing near Ocean and Broadway, three Aptos businesses burglarized, stabbing yourself in the armpit hurts, Transient California, rude awakening on the North Coast, hobbits in Santa Cruz, butts on the beach, a little Wagner for local conspiracy theorists, the wisdom of Dr. Drew, Maddy’s Garden, red white and blue beach sold, and more!