For 50 years, a statue of Junipero Serra watched over cars cruising by on Interstate 280 in San Mateo County, but now it's gone. Caltrans removed the 26-foot-tall statue back in August. Since then, ...
California transportation officials say the Serra statue failed program standards; Archbishop Cordileone says Catholics were shut out of the decision. San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone ...
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone’s account flatly contradicts the California Department of Transport’s narrative; no response ...
Extending a cultural fight that started years ago, Caltrans has quietly demolished a statue of 18th-century missionary and Catholic saint Junipero Serra that had overlooked Interstate 280 in ...
HILLSBOROUGH, Calif. - A statue that greeted Peninsula drivers for decades has been removed. Caltrans took down the statue of Junípero Serra in Hillsborough along Interstate 280 earlier this summer.
Without fully realizing it, I have had a bit of an obsession with the statue of Junipero Serra that looms over Interstate 280 in the general vicinity of Hillsborough. Mark Simon is a veteran ...