The newspaper has a circulation of 5,000 and covers the Watsonville City Council, the Pajaro Valley Unified School District and the Santa Cruz County Farm Bureau.
The newspaper's coverage area includes the cities of Aptos, Corralitos, Watsonville, Pajaro, Aromas and most of North Monterey County.
In 1946, he covered the Nuremberg trials for the Associated Press, and when the verdicts were announced, Gallagher got his report out first by dashing a long distance to his wife who was waiting with an active phone.
[4] In 2003, under the leadership of editor Jon Chown,[5] articles by reporter Dave M. Brooks led to the ousting of Watsonville Mayor Richard de La Paz[6] for his involvement in a bar room brawl.
Its original name, The Pajaronian, was restored, a new logo was introduced, the office was moved back to downtown Watsonville[13][14] and a weekly lifestyle magazine, Pajaro Valley, began publishing.