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Watsonville city council members have voted 5-2 to cut the tax rate of cannabis nurseries, cultivators and storefronts. The tax cut puts Watsonville businesses on par with most adjacent municipalities. Although there are a number of growers in Watsonville, the city still doesn’t have a legal marijuana dispensary.
The ground has now been broken on an Amazon distribution facility in Hollister. The location of that facility is at the corner of Flynn and San Felipe Roads.....which is south of the Hollister Municipal Airport. They expect to have the distribution center operational by the end of the summer and then they expect to need to hire hundreds of full-time and part-time workers. They have a national starting wage of 15 dollars per hour.
Starting April 10th, people will be able to (on a limited basis) visit prison inmates once again. The top officials at each prison will decide if the entire facility, or just portions thereof, will allow visitors....with visiting times varying depending on the number of active cases of Covid-19. Precautions at each prison will include temperature checks, symptom screenings, coronavirus testing, physical distancing, facial coverings, and limits on both the numbers of visitors and how long they can stay.
No one was injured as the result of a fire that broke out in a homeless encampment in Salinas last night. About 50 by 50 feet burned due to the vegetation fire that took place along the southbound lanes of Highway 101 under the Main Street overpass.
A recently rescued gull was released back into the wild yesterday. The gull was found with multiple fishhooks in his face, beak, and wing.....when he was seen in the yard of a seaside home earlier this month. The gull was cared for, and rehabbed by, the S.P.C.A. Monterey County Wildlife And Rehabilitation Center. The hooks made it impossible for him to eat or drink. After some treatment they were able to sedate him and remove the hooks, and then they needed to rehab him. He was released back into the wild at Seaside State Beach.