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Week in Review: Fighter Jets, a Bomb Threat and Near-Record Heat

Catch up on last week's headlines from Capitola and Soquel right here.

In case you weren't around last week, we've got a synopsis right here of headlines from Capitola-Soquel spanning the final week of September.

On Monday, the rumble of fighter jets shook houses across Santa Cruz County. Turns out a private pilot took off from the airport in Watsonville and entered restricted airspace over where President Obama was speaking over the hill. The fighter jets where he was forced to land.

Wednesday the 28th marked the since 366 days prior (Sept. 27, 2010), when it was a scalding 103 degrees outside.

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The Santa Cruz Bomb Team stopped a threat in Live Oak on Friday morning after a homeless man put in an apple cider bottle. In other police news, we reported the from the week prior.

We wanted to know your favorite Japanese restaurant in town last week. The vast majority of you prefer Soquel's . You can still vote by .

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Bryan Stow, the Giants fan beaten on opening day at Dodger Stadium, was . His reemergence coincided with the end of the Giants season.

Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, was this week. To learn more about the 48-hour event, .

We started a new column this week called "On This Date in Capitola History," in which we chronicle old news articles from the same publish date from decades and centuries past. The first installment, from Sept. 29, 1912, is about a picnic complete with hunter's stew. Don't know what hunter's stew is? and find out.

Lastly, the . Meet the  and stay tuned for further coverage of the rodeo this week.


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