
Lily Belli
Food Correspondent at Lookout Santa Cruz
Food Correspondent at @LookoutSCruz || [email protected]
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1 week ago |
buff.ly | Lily Belli |Max Chun |Sarah Cobos |Wallace Baine
Eaters Digest is delivered as a free newsletter via email, as well as on our website. Click here to become a Lookout member – and access all of Lily’s food and beverage reporting. Summer is here, the weather is unseasonably warm for Santa Cruz County (June Gloom, who?) and some of the best food events of the year emerge from their annual hibernation. If you love to eat, especially outside, almost every week brings a smorgasbord of gatherings, fundraisers and festivals.
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1 week ago |
lookout.co | Lookout Santa Cruz |Sarah Cobos |Max Chun |Lily Belli
Good morning! It’s June 20 — here’s what’s going on in your community today…Today will be clouds giving way to sun. There is a 1% chance of rain. The high will be 72 with a low of 47. Wear your sunblock — the UV Index is extreme (11/11). Mostly cloudy now, changing to intermittent clouds at 9 a.m.Looking ahead: Pleasant this weekendPVUSD created a citizens oversight committee for transparency in spending the $315 million Measure M bond.
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2 weeks ago |
lookout.co | Lookout Santa Cruz |Sarah Cobos |Max Chun |Lily Belli
Good morning! It’s June 13 — here’s what’s going on in your community today…Today will be low clouds followed by sunshine. The high will be 72 with a low of 48. Wear your sunblock — the UV Index is very high (10/11). Cloudy now, changing to mostly sunny at 2 p.m. Cloudy Mostly sunny Looking ahead: Pleasant SundayPVUSD board reversed ethnic studies decisions due to state law complaints.
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2 weeks ago |
buff.ly | Lily Belli |Jessica M. Pasko
QuickTake: A mix of rising rents, construction hurdles and slow city permitting is prompting some small businesses to reconsider opening in downtown Santa Cruz. Business owners say they want to be part of downtown’s future but feel the financial and bureaucratic barriers are stacked too high — especially for those trying to open in aging buildings.
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2 weeks ago |
lookout.co | Lily Belli |Jessica M. Pasko
QuickTake: A mix of rising rents, construction hurdles and slow city permitting is prompting some small businesses to reconsider opening in downtown Santa Cruz. Business owners say they want to be part of downtown’s future but feel the financial and bureaucratic barriers are stacked too high — especially for those trying to open in aging buildings.
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I'm currently on maternity leave and apparently so out of touch with current events that my first thought yesterday morning when I saw the clocks in my house were wrong was that the power must have gone out for an hour.

Quesabirria tacos and honey cake at the Capitola Mall? Yup! Also: This is my last Eaters Digest column for a while. Starting next week I'm on maternity leave through June ✌️

EATERS DIGEST: Tacos and treats at Capitola Mall, fundraiser for Pie Ranch and Clam Chowder Cook-Off https://t.co/nWHg0HWKFw via @LilyWrenn https://t.co/1hpVmGeng9

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