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The Friends of the Capitola Branch Library bookstore will close its doors on March 31, but the space will remain a bookstore under local the nonprofit Grey Bears. Plus, California voters polled slightly in favor of a proposed billionaires' net worth tax and more evenly split on a proposed voter ID requirement.
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Watsonville Film Festival
The Watsonville Film Festival opens tonight at Green Valley Cinemas. This year's theme is "art as resistance."
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