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The city of Capitola is going to consider allowing dogs on the beach. A public hearing is planned for Thursday, April 12. We want your opinion:

See related story: Dogs on the beach? Capitola council seeking public input Thursday

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Here are the 10 most viewed stories or pages from the Sentinel website from Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2011:

1. Remade Hoffman’s unveiled to public
2. Santa Cruz Sentinel Photo Contest : 2011 Pets on Parade
3. Woman’s body found under train trestle in Aptos
4. Shooting begins in Jay Moriarity movie; paddle-out moved to Friday
5. Aptos man arrested with 500 marijuana plants
6. Santa Cruz Sentinel Photo Contest : 2011 Babies!
7. Cops and Courts, Oct. 12, 2011: Knife-wielding thief robs man of $30
8. Ma Maison, Restaurant Review: French flavors meet California freshness at Ma Maison
9. Documentary features Santa Cruz County serial killer from 1970s
10. Injured Giants fan Bryan Stow transferred Tuesday from San Francisco General Hospital

Link of the Day: With a handful of projects we’re trying to push forward, (and no photo interns), we haven’t done the best job of updating the Sentinel Photo Blog, but we found time in the day to post Shmuel Thaler’s surf shot yesterday. We live in a great place.

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We just added a great photo of Finland’s Seppo Paju to our Photo Blog.

Paju earned $500 by hurling a disc from the Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf to into a basket on Main Beach on Thursday afternoon. Random thought: Does anyone else think Paju looks a lot like another great pitcher – Little League World Series hero Cody Webster?

Yesterday evening, my e-mail started overheating with messages from the Facebook group, “You know you grew up in Santa Cruz when …”

Mariah Hicks, who grew up here and is the little girl in the Louden Nelson mural, started the group last night at about 9 p.m. As of this afternoon, it has more than 1,400 members and the content is nonstop. All are having fun. Here’s a sample of recent posts:

“You seen the movie The Lost Boys a million times and still love it..haha”

“You remember The Walking Lady.”

“The Skyview Drive-in! Only saw one movie there, Mary Poppins, as a kid. But loved to drive by it on the freeway and try to catch a glimpse of one of the screens.”

“Macfarland’s coffee candy, A&W baby burgers, Maple Street. What was the name of the old comic book store on Pacific?”

Hicks, from Utah, says she misses Santa Cruz. Probably now more than ever.

We’re working on an update about an 80-foot whale found washed up at Bean Hollow.

That reminds the web team of a smaller whale that washed ashore in Santa Cruz in spring of 2009.

It’s unclear right now what will become of the whale, but it’s not easy to deal with. We’re advising, again, not to let this happen:

Here’s the story for today, more photos to come.

The Sentinel reporting staff has been working on a handful of shark stories this summer.

This week, our Fish Rap columnist Allen Bushnell relayed a report on a kayaker who went face-to-face with a shark. It wound up our top story on the website for three days.

Today we had a short story on an abundance of shark-chewed otter remains washing up on beaches of Norther California.

Earlier this year, Capitola beaches were closed after several shark sightings.

Today, we received this photo from Tracy McAvoy:

We’re checking on the photo and the story, but Tracy said the shark was found Thursday at Hidden Beach Park, alive, and that his dog was curious about the creature. Stay tuned for a few more details.

Here are a few more links to Sentinel shark stories:

If you’re a fan of sharks, you’ve probably already watched Chuck Patterson’s video from San Onofre, ‘Me my shark and I,’ posted last week. (It’s received nearly 2 million views this week):

Me my Shark and I from Chuck Patterson on Vimeo.