Jonathan Evans

Feb 26, 2025 | lookout.co | Jessica Pasko |Lookout Santa Cruz |Hillary Ojeda |Jonathan Evans

Quick Take With an injection of $1 million, the Westside's SwellCycle aims to pivot from a focus on selling boards directly to consumers to instead working with surfboard shapers and licensing its technology to “micro-factories” to produce the surfboards. Santa Cruz-based SwellCycle started with a focus on creating more sustainable surfboards, but now the company is looking to take its technology to new applications thanks to $1 million in new funding.

Feb 26, 2025 | lookout.co | Jessica Pasko |Lookout Santa Cruz |Hillary Ojeda |Jonathan Evans

Quick Take Kristen Brown, former Capitola mayor and a woman with extensive experience working with a variety of business organizations, takes over this week as the executive director of the Santa Cruz Area Chamber of Commerce. Former Capitola mayor Kristen Brown will start her new role as the executive director of the Santa Cruz Area Chamber of Commerce this week.

Feb 25, 2025 | lookout.co | Max Chun |Lookout Santa Cruz |Jonathan Evans |Claudia Sternbach

Quick Take: The search operation for a man who jumped into the ocean near Wilder Ranch while on a hike late Tuesday morning has shifted from rescue to recovery as of Tuesday afternoon as air and water resources have yet to locate him, according to a Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson. Several first responder agencies have been searching for a man who jumped into the ocean near Wilder Ranch State Park since late Tuesday morning.

Feb 25, 2025 | lookout.co | Lily Belli |Lookout Santa Cruz |Jonathan Evans |Max Chun

Welcome to Lily Belli on Food, a weekly food-focused newsletter from Lookout’s food and drink correspondent, Lily Belli. Keep reading for the latest local food news for Santa Cruz County – plus a few fun odds and ends from my own life and around the web. … Congratulations to the winners of the 44th Annual Clam Chowder Cook-Off, which took place at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk last weekend. As always, please enjoy this delightfully silly batch of team names.

Feb 25, 2025 | lookout.co | Will McCahill |Lookout Santa Cruz |Jonathan Evans |Max Chun

Hello hello, Lookout friends. It’s Tuesday, Feb. 25, and a mostly sunny day lies ahead for Santa Cruz County, with temperatures in the mid-60s (and warmer Wednesday). JUMP TO … Neighborhood Roundup | Latest News | Opinion | Briefs | Event Calendar | Job Board | PuzzlesChristopher Neely starts us off with Sacramento carrot-and-stick on homelessness, reporting that while Gov.