Tamsin McMahon is the Managing Editor at Lookout Santa Cruz. With a diverse background in arts and entertainment, education, real estate, and travel, she explores themes ranging from campus life and university research to digital and fine arts. Tamsin's work has been featured in prominent publications such as The Charlotte Observer, Bloomberg News, and The Boston Globe.
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Tamsin McMahon's coverage primarily focuses on local news, with an emphasis on evolving stories and government announcements. She frequently covers topics related to arts & entertainment, local events, and human interest stories in the Santa Cruz County area.
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Friday traffic trouble spots in and around Santa Cruz County.
By: Hillary Ojeda
Pajaro Middle School teachers say they're relieved that Principal Nicole Killian is moving to a district office role. In May, they gave the district superintendent a vote of no confidence and demanded her removal.
By: Monica S. Hammer
Jack O’Neill believed every child should have the chance to experience the ocean. Land-use attorney Monica Hammer, who sits on the planning commission for the City of Santa Cruz and the board of O’Neill Sea Odyssey, learned about the ocean’s power from her Danish father, an avid sailor. Once we form a relationship with the natural world, we have a reason to care for it, she writes. Today, a lack of transportation – about $950 in school bus fare – is keeping some classes of local children from making that connection, and from discovering an ocean that is waiting less than an hour away. O’Neill hopes to change that by providing up to 85% of the transportation costs.
By: Kevin Painchaud
At 77, longtime Santa Cruz swim coach Joel Wilson just set a masters world record at the 2026 U.S. Masters Swimming Summer Nationals in Sacramento — the newest milestone in a career that stretches back more than 70 years. But ask Wilson about it and he'll tell you it matters less than watching the swimmers he mentors hit their own goals.
By: Alia Yee Noll
Capitola artist Bruce Harman has spent months painting 50 aluminum panels along a 625-foot stretch of railing on Monterey Avenue, turning it into a mural of jellyfish, otters, seahorses and other Monterey Bay sea life. The panels go on public display this weekend when the street closes to cars for the Capitola Art & Wine Festival.
With a heat wave gripping Santa Cruz County, Lookout journalists fanned out across the area to see workers and residents were coping.
Friday traffic trouble spots in and around Santa Cruz County.
By: Kevin Painchaud
More than 60 people honored the fallen first responders of 9/11 by climbing Seacliff State Beach’s stairs 13 times – equal to the World Trade Center’s 110 stories – at Friday’s 25th anniversary memorial climb in Aptos.
“Made in Santa Cruz: Why Art Matters” is a video series, published every other Sunday, exploring the artists who shape Santa Cruz County's creative landscape. Each episode offers a peek into an artist's practice, the places and experiences that inform their work, and the ways creativity helps us see our community differently. Today’s makers are crab rope artists Stephanie Michelet and Jason Rimmer of Sea Creature Designs.
Professional sumo is making its California TV debut in Santa Cruz on Sept. 26, when the World Elite Sumo league brings a 12-man tournament – and a modernized, shorts-wearing take on the 2,000-year-old sport – to Kaiser Permanente Arena.
