Todd Guild

San Francisco

Reporter at Register-Pajaronian

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Sex offender arrested for stalking, touching girl

1 week ago | pajaronian.com | Todd Guild

Watsonville Police on Tuesday arrested a registered sex offender after he allegedly followed and inappropriately touched a 17-year-old girl. Kenneth Wilder, 31, has been charged with assault with intent to commit rape, stalking, annoying or molesting a minor and sexual battery. As a registered sex offender, he was also charged with illegally being on school property. He was not in custody Wednesday afternoon, jail records showed.
PVUSD superintendent looks back on first year

1 week ago | pajaronian.com | Todd Guild

Nearly one year after she took the helm of the county’s largest school district, Pajaro Valley Unified School District Superintendent Heather Contreras sat down with The Pajaronian to talk about her accomplishments, and the ongoing challenges facing the district. “It’s been a long year, but an exciting year,” she said. Contreras, who started on May 1 of last year, began her time with her “Look Listen and Learn” tour.
Local and national elections display the power of media and bias on politics

1 week ago | pajaronian.com | Todd Guild

Editor’s note: Zen Weaver is a junior at Aptos High School. This is his second story for The Pajaronian. We welcome contributions from aspiring young journalists. Email In an era where headlines spread faster than facts, Santa Cruz County residents, politicians, and community leaders are tasked with navigating a complex and constantly changing media landscape.
Community rallies against proposed battery storage facility in Watsonville

1 week ago | pajaronian.com | Todd Guild

A grassroots movement of citizens concerned about the construction of a new battery storage facility in Watsonville held a public meeting on Monday evening to discuss the dangers of such a project and rally local residents by passing around petitions and encouraging citizens to join the group. The meeting, which grew raucous at times with many people interrupting and catcalling, was held at the Watsonville Church of the Nazarene, less than one mile away from Minto Road and the proposed BESS site.
Lawsuit Targets Executive Order Cutting Library Funding

1 week ago | goodtimes.sc | Todd Guild

On April 7, California Attorney General Rob Bonta joined a coalition of 21 attorneys general in a lawsuit against the Trump Administration that pushes back against a March 14 executive order by President Donald Trump to cut federal funding for libraries and museums. The order will leave no community untouched. But the impact will vary throughout the state.
Redman-Hirahara House Faces Delisting and Demolition

2 weeks ago | goodtimes.sc | Todd Guild

Motorists along Highway 1 have grown accustomed to the sight of a crumbling building in a 14-acre parcel on the outskirts of Watsonville. The structure, known as the Redman-Hirahara house, was designed by famed architect William Weeks in 1897 for farmer James Redman. The Queen Anne Victorian is a reminder of Watsonville’s history as an agricultural epicenter. But the story runs even deeper than that.
Supervisors oppose federal voter ID laws

2 weeks ago | pajaronian.com | Todd Guild

The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously agreed to voice their opposition to proposed federal legislation that would require voter ID and retool voter eligibility requirements nationwide, which County Clerk Tricia Weber says would make it harder for many U.S. citizens to vote. The vote allows Weber to send a letter—signed by all the supervisors—to the House of Representatives.
Working together, staying together during disasters

2 weeks ago | pajaronian.com | Todd Guild

Over the past five years, we’ve learned how to navigate successive disasters in Santa Cruz County. We fill sandbags, dig ditches, clear fallen trees, clean up debris, distribute food and help folks cover critical expenses when they are out of work due to shutdowns, floods, storms, and fires. We mobilize to evacuate seniors and medically fragile people. We translate public health information into Spanish, Mixteco and other indigenous languages.
Lawsuit targets executive order cutting library, museum funding

2 weeks ago | pajaronian.com | Todd Guild

A March 14 executive order by President Donald Trump targeting federal funding for libraries and museums—among other things—will leave no community untouched. But the impact will vary throughout the state. Both the Santa Cruz County Public Library and the Watsonville Public Library systems receive millions of dollars from Measure R, a 2008 quarter-cent sales tax earmarked exclusively for libraries. That will largely cushion local institutions from the order.
‘This is what democracy looks like.’ Hands off protest draws thousands

2 weeks ago | pajaronian.com | Todd Guild

Thousands of people have gathered in Watsonville Civic Plaza, holding signs and chanting in protest of the Trump Administration’s policies. Similar “Hands Off” protests occurred in cities throughout the U.S.This story will be updated. Protesters gather along Main Street in Watsonville as part of the nationwide Hands Off protests (Todd Guild/The Pajaronian)