The Santa Cruz Wharf reopened to visitors and businesses on Saturday, less than two weeks after crashing waves from a powerful storm collapsed more than 100 feet of the pier into the ocean.
“Let the community know, let the people all over Northern California know, it is safe to come to our wharf,” Mayor Fred Keeley said during a weekend reopening ceremony.
About 150 feet along the end of the wharf was washed away last month during dangerous high surf from a series of atmospheric river events that battered Northern California, Oregon and Washington…