Santa Cruz County Local News: History

In days past, anyone traveling along Upper Highway 9 in Boulder Creek might spot the White Cockade Scottish Pub biding beside the roadway with its front door emblazoned with the flag of Scotland.

Born in San Francisco, Rowland Rebele lived his later years in Aptos, where he supported civic causes throughout Santa Cruz.

Friends of the Ben Lomond Library have kicked off revitalization efforts for the historic Ben Lomond Library building and library operations with a meet and greet and volunteer gatherings.

Derek Whaley, a historian and research librarian who grew up in Felton, shares the history of train routes through the Santa Cruz Mountains and how they changed the destiny of this region.

Glenn Schaller, whose grassroots work touched nearly every aspect of local progressive politics for the past four decades throughout California, died Oct. 30 in his Santa Cruz home.

Staffed almost entirely by long-term employees, El Chino has been owned by Maria Gallardo since 2017. Her parents were the founders.

Imagine driving into Felton across the covered bridge. Before 1938, that was the county road.

Santa Cruz County historian Sandy Lydon, who is giving his last lecture Oct. 14 before his pending retirement, sees himself as riding a donkey facing backwards.

Derek R. Whaley’s ‘Sidetracked” is the third in the Santa Cruz Trains series of books about local trains, tracks, tunnels, stations and stops.