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Durbin-Mania hit Santa Cruz Saturday and some 20000 people basked in the glow of America's newest star. It was like the days of Elvis or the Beatles, or a movie script.. By 2003, Santa Cruz city and County fell in line for police and deputies. Public agencies felt they had to offer similar pension packages to keep existing employees, or attract new ones. Other factors also contributed to the shortfall: People were. SANTA CRUZ -- When UC Santa Cruz School of Engineering Dean Art Ramirez came to the university two years ago from Bell Labs, he was immediately impressed with the amount and quality of inventions and new ideas coming from the department.. Stephen E. Thorsett, dean of physical and biological sciences at the University of California at Santa Cruz, will take the helm of the 2600-student private Salem university on July 1. \"It's exciting,\" Thorsett said of his return to his home state.. Widell is a member of Boy Scouts of America Troop No, 642 of Aptos/Soquel, and is the son of Traci and Tim Outtrim of Santa Cruz and David Widell of Walnut Grove. He will be attending Purdue University in Indiana this fall.. Santa Cruz Mayor Ryan Coonerty will speak at the Santa Cruz County Democratic Women's Club lunch Wednesday. Coonerty was first elected to the City Council in 2004 and became mayor for the second time in December. At the lunch, he will discuss the. State Park interpreter Julie Sidel at the Santa Cruz Mission, slated for closure along with Twin Lakes State Beach and Castle Rock State Park. Twin Lakes and Seabright beaches, Castle Rock State Park and the Santa Cruz Mission - which. SANTA CRUZ -- Doug Jones, who has been a mail carrier in Santa Cruz for 10 years, had already filled a substantial portion of his mail truck with bags of donated food by noon Saturday. Jones said some the food looked quite appetizing, too.. SANTA CRUZ -- Durbin Day was soon upon us. A Durbin Day celebration set to rollick Santa Cruz on Saturday was gutted with Thursday's news that James Durbin did not make a final cut to stay in the \"American Idol\" top three and receive a Fox-sponsored. The $4 million trail through Arana Gulch - as discussed, delayed and divisive as any parks proposal in recent memory - is taking on one last wrinkle before the project goes back to the state Coastal Commission for.