Bridging Santa Cruz County history with motherly love

NOGALES — At 104, Lucila Gomez Bejarano is Santa Cruz County's oldest resident and may be the last person to ever live in the now-vanished town of Calabasas. But that's not why Tony Velazquez wanted to name the bridge after her. His motivation was personal. In the late 1960s, when Velázquez was nine years old, […]