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Here are the 10 most viewed stories or pages from the weekend of Sept. 23-25:

1. Woman jailed after throwing a duck in Santa Cruz
2. Santa Cruz’s Chris Rene amazes judges on ‘The X Factor’
3. PCS stands behind fundraising letter: Ed officials concerned about pressure on parents
4. Highway Patrol seeking reckless driver who led officers on chase
5. Blaze during Hula-Hoop event totals four cars
6. Santa Cruz Sentinel Photo Contest : 2011 A Fair Time
7. San Jose Hells Angels leader killed during shootout in Nevada casino
8. Cops and Courts, Sept. 22, 2011: Bicyclist injured in crash with pickup
9. Loitering call leads to man’s arrest in Santa Cruz
10. Salinas gangster sentenced to life in prison without parole for college student’s death

Yes, those are actual headlines that perhaps no one has ever written before:

• Woman jailed after throwing duck
• Blaze during hula hoop event totals four cars

Here’a a little more on the hula hoop fire, from reporter Jessica Pasko’s blog. She’s informally chronically some of the odd things that happen in Santa Cruz. This seems to count.

We’ve added a new reporter and new blog to the Sentinel lineup.

Jessica Pasko has been in town and on staff for about a month after packing up all her worldly belongings and moving to the West Coast. She has noticed that Santa Cruz is an unusual place and figured a blog about adjusting to all the good, bad and unusual in Santa Cruz made sense.

Welcome her to town at the Lost on the Left Coast blog:

Lost on the Left Coast