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Win Two Tickets to Banff Film Fest Night 3

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'Not Bad,' screening Sunday, stars Cam McCaul of Aptos and six other two-wheeled maniacs.

The Banff Film Fest at Rio Theatre this weekend has been sold out for about a week now, but we've got two tickets to Sunday night's lineup. Read on to learn how to get your mitts on 'em.

State Parks Needs YOU

You could be spending your free Saturdays here.

Volunteer opportunities at Santa Cruz area state parks.

Is Monterey Bay Radioactive?

This image is being shared widely as evidence that dangerous levels of radiation from Fukushima have arrived on the West Coast. The map actually shows wave dispersal from the tsunami that was partly responsible for the nuclear plant's breakdown.

Two projects that should inject some sanity into the occasionally hysterical public conversation about the Fukushima nuclear disaster—and help raise our overall scientific IQ.

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River Paddle Day 1

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Becca Moeller with her two homemade kayaks, the "Robbie Lynn" and the "Dos Lados." Hilltromper photo.

The morning after Valentine's Day, several dozen people gathered in a parking lot behind the old Royal Taj (now Maharaja) restaurant on Soquel and Riverside and lugged their canoes, kayaks and SUP boards down a grassy embankment to the edge of the San Lorenzo River.

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