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Muralist At Work in Aptos
As you drive along Soquel Drive or on Highway 1 between the Rio Del Mar Blvd and Freedom Blvd exits, look to the north. A new mural in Aptos is being created on a retaining wall along Soquel Drive that will be just yards from where the Spreckels mansion once stood and where the world headquarters of Times Publishing Group, Inc. stands today. Full Story page 5
New Marquee Marks AHS Entrance
2017: Eventful and Challenging By Noel Smith 2017 for Aptos was a year when future possibilities were becoming reality while natural and manmade obstacles were being overcome. The Rancho Del Mar Shopping Center being upgraded but at the cost of several businesses having
to close to make way for the rebuilding and renovating the areas where they are now located by the center’s owner, TRC. These businesses included Erik’s DeliCafe, BaskinRobbins, Showtime Pizza, Le Chef Kitchenware ‘n More
The new marquee at the entrance to Aptos High School may be hard to miss but how it came to be is not so obvious. The Aptos Sports Foundation says the nearly $100,000 project for the stateof-the-art digital signage is a blueprint for many future improvement projects at Aptos public schools without spending one cent of district member tax money. Full Story page 11
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