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The Watsonville community means everything to Tony Nuñez, and it’s one of the main reasons he decided to run for the District 4 seat on the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors. 

Nuñez, 34, told Lookout in February that his community has done a lot for him and his family, who are longtime residents of Watsonville. And now, he wants to continue a tradition of giving back to the community – as a county supervisor. 

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“What I’ve done in terms of my professional career, it’s always been about giving back,” he said in an interview this month. “Whether it was working at The Pajaronian, that was a great way to give back and tell people’s stories … and then at Community Bridges, where I felt that I was still in tune with the community and helping people.”

Nuñez is running in the June 2 primary election against incumbent Felipe Hernandez and community advocate Elias Gonzales for District 4 county supervisor, which represents most of the Pajaro Valley, Watsonville and Interlaken. 

Since there are more than two candidates for the District 4 seat, the Nov. 3 general election will serve as a run-off between the top two vote-getters, unless one candidate wins a majority of the primary vote. 

Should Nuñez win the supervisor seat, he would be required to vacate his role as board chair of the Pajaro Valley Health Care District, which operates Watsonville Community Hospital. He also would leave his role as marketing and communications manager for nonprofit Community Bridges. 

Candidate for District 4 Santa Cruz County supervisor Tony Nuñez. Credit: Kevin Painchaud / Lookout Santa Cruz Credit: Kevin Painchaud / Lookout Santa Cruz

Nunez played a part in transitioning the hospital into becoming a public-owned facility after it survived bankruptcy in 2023. He is currently part of the effort to find an external partner to help manage the facility’s day-to-day operations. The hospital reported a nearly $23 million loss for 2025, following a flurry of challenges including a decline in patients and changes to state and federal funding. 

“I think that we’re really close to actually moving something forward that I think can stabilize the hospital and can start to get us out of the situation we’re in right now,” he said.

Nuñez said he’ll continue supporting the hospital and its journey to financial stability as a supervisor level by working with regional, state and federal representatives: “I think that I can still do really great things, and I can move the conversation forward that we’ve started with the health care district and the hospital.” 

County officials have faced scrutiny from residents in South County in the past year over the development of an ordinance that would regulate battery storage plants, and more specifically over a proposal by Massachusetts-based developer New Leaf Energy to build a facility on Minto Road outside Watsonville. 

At Lookout’s candidate forum last week, Nuñez said many of the residents he’s spoken with have told him they’re against the New Leaf project and were concerned about potential impacts to public health. During the forum, he told community members he was against the project. 

The overall perception of these facilities has changed following the 2025 Moss Landing fire, said Nuñez. He said he would support battery storage facilities, but only if they are done “in the right way” and with public safety at the top of the priority list. 

“What would the trade-offs be of bringing something so close to all of the residents around the area there?” Nuñez said. “It might look like a rural area of the community or of the county or our region, but really there’s houses right next door.” 

He’s also worried about the agricultural land being used for the project. The site where New Leaf is proposing its plant sits on an apple orchard. “I have concerns about agricultural land being rezoned in a piecemeal kind of fashion,” he said. 

Immigration fears continue to affect community members at all levels in South County since the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents have visited Watsonville at least 23 times since January 2025; nine of those visits happened within the first two months of 2026. 

To ensure that members of the immigrant community feel they belong and are safe to do everyday tasks, Nuñez said that people need to stand in solidarity with them, and  communicate to them that there are resources available. 

He believes the county is on the right path with the creation of a subcommittee to help prepare for possible impacts of immigration operations on county residents, along with an ordinance barring ICE agents from using county property for enforcement activities. 

However, he said Santa Cruz County needs to determine how many undocumented families in the county are without legal representation, and figure out how to support immigration lawyers aiding these families. 

“There’s a real need for more legal representation for immigrant populations,” he said. “It’s not even that lawyers don’t want to take on these cases … the immigration attorneys are trying to help, they’re extremely committed to the work, and they want to do more and they can’t do more.” 

Tony Nuñez (far left) speaks during an April 15 Lookout forum for District 4 Santa Cruz County supervisor candidates. Credit: Kevin Painchaud / Lookout Santa Cruz

Nuñez also wants to increase economic development in South County. Watsonville doesn’t have a hospitality and tourism industry, he said; the local economy is primarily driven by agriculture and nonprofits. He’d like to work with city officials to figure out how to develop tourism in Watsonville.

“It starts with working with the city on how the county can be a better partner for revitalizing its downtown,” he said. 

The big issue the county is struggling with is bringing in additional revenue to fund programs in order to meet the community’s needs, Nuñez said. County staff are forecasting a $23.2 million deficit for the 2026-27 fiscal year, and a long-term structural deficit that could reach $67.5 million by 2028-29 in the absence of mitigating actions.

One of the initiatives Nuñez wants to create is a robust down-payment assistance program for local residents, specifically in South County, to help increase homeownership. But he acknowledged that those things take money and time to achieve. 

“The No. 1 thing that we can do is try to solve our local economy, and really try to drive new businesses into Watsonville and into South County and into the county,” he said. “If we’re not putting a lot of our effort into that, then we’re just going to keep coming up into the same issue, which is, we don’t have enough funding, we don’t have enough revenue.”

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Enormous new batteries keep appearing on the grid, making it devilishly tricky to keep track of which is the biggest in a given region. That’s certainly the case in New England, where acute power needs and robust state climate goals are fueling a buildout of big batteries that keep breaking capacity records.

Canary Media recently covered the inauguration of the 175-megawatt Cross Town battery in Gorham, Maine, which was the largest in New England when it began operating in late November. But that trophy has already passed to a 250-megawatt facility in Medway, Massachusetts, southwest of Boston and about 10 miles from the Patriots’ Gillette Stadium.

The Medway battery came online fully on February 25, according to developer VC Renewables, a subsidiary of global energy trader Vitol. “To be fair, I don’t expect Medway to hold that title for very long, either,” said Tom Bitting, managing director at Advantage Capital, which supported the project with a $158 million tax equity deal. ​“There are other batteries being developed in New England that are bigger, but I think it is all just a sign that we need all of it, and there’s huge demand for it.”

“Store all that solar energy that we’re producing in the middle of the day and bring down the cost of operating the system for everyone.”

For instance, Jupiter Power, a heavyweight in Texas’ booming grid storage market, is developing the 700-megawatt/2.8-gigawatt-hour Trimount battery plant at a former oil-storage site in Everett, Massachusetts, just north of Boston. Jupiter aims to finish the project in 2028 or 2029. Trimount is slated to be among the largest stand-alone batteries in the whole country—Vistra’s battery in Moss Landing, California, set that record with 750 megawatts/​3 gigawatt-hours, before much of that capacity burned up in a disastrous fire.

The wave of battery megaprojects marks a new chapter for the region, which until recently was focused on building small-scale batteries. Massachusetts encouraged this by requiring energy storage alongside many distributed solar projects that received payments through the state’s main solar incentive; this rule led to a buildout of systems in the range of 1 to 5 megawatts.

Bigger batteries started taking off in the late 2010s out West: In California, Arizona, and Nevada, where developers can sign long-term contracts to deliver grid capacity; and in Texas, where they can bid into a uniquely competitive market.

The first three big batteries in New England—Plus Power’s Cranberry Point and Cross Town, as well as Medway, which was previously developed by Eolian—won seven-year contracts in 2021 to provide capacity for the New England grid, but the grid operator subsequently shortened that kind of contract to one year. After that change, developers have struggled with the lack of long-term capacity revenue; they can still charge up when prices are low and sell when they’re high, but that’s an unpredictable revenue stream that financiers might not want to underwrite.

Massachusetts has succeeded in building a robust fleet of small-scale solar—on recent sunny spring days, it has generated close to half the region’s demand. But leaders knew they needed batteries to keep cleaning up the grid in the hours when solar doesn’t produce. So they created a new policy driver for storage investment called the Clean Peak Standard, which officially took effect in 2020.

The rule orders utilities to serve a percentage of their peak-demand hours with clean electricity, and the target grows with each passing year. Companies that use batteries to save solar energy for the evening—when electricity consumption rises as people get home from work and school—earn credits that they can sell to utilities, providing some revenue certainty outside the wholesale market.

The administration of Gov. Maura Healey, a Democrat, views storage as a key lever to improve energy affordability, Undersecretary of Energy Michael Judge said, because it makes better use of existing grid infrastructure to meet peak demand.

Batteries can fit a lot of power into a relatively small footprint, without smokestacks or pollution.

“Store all that solar energy that we’re producing in the middle of the day and bring down the cost of operating the system for everyone,” he said. ​“You don’t have to run these peakers, and you get all the emissions benefits and integration of clean energy benefits, too.”

It took several years for the rule to actually spur batteries in the multihundred-megawatt range, but now that era has begun. Advantage Capital, for example, factored in revenues from the Clean Peak Standard when it analyzed and underwrote the investment in the Medway project, Bitting noted. A total of 725 megawatts of battery storage had qualified for the Clean Peak Standard as of early March, according to state data.

Stand-alone grid battery projects are also bolstered by a federal tax credit that can cut investment costs by 30 percent, an incentive that the Trump administration preserved in last summer’s budget law even as it slashed support for wind, solar, and electric vehicles.

Clean Peak cash alone doesn’t pay the bills; battery developers still need to make money in the marketplace. Though New England lacks long-term capacity contracts, storage companies in the region have at least two factors working in their favor: some of the nation’s highest electricity prices and growing demand for power.

“It’s very difficult to get additional generation online in an area with high population density, because regardless of what type of power generation you’re building, it requires a lot of space,” Bitting said. Batteries, though, can fit a lot of power into a relatively small footprint, without the smokestacks or pollution that make it hard to build new fossil-fueled plants in populous areas.

Batteries compete directly with gas power plants to serve the peak hours of demand, when prices are highest. That’s especially valuable in New England, where gas supplies are stretched thin between power generation and home heating on the coldest days of the year.

“When it’s cold, the households are going to continue to demand it,” Bitting said. ​“But if we can ease some of the peak on the utility side, that will provide a relief valve to supply.”

Jupiter Power’s colossal Trimount project will continue New England’s foray into large batteries, with the ability to discharge enough power for roughly 500,000 homes, per the developer. Trimount was the largest of four battery projects selected in December from Massachusetts’ statewide solicitation to bring on more Clean Peak power. Previously, battery owners could sell off their Clean Peak credits on a quarterly or annual basis. The new solicitation was designed to produce ​“cost-effective” long-term contracts for storage, giving developers more stable revenue to plan around. Furthermore, Healey doubled down on grid storage in a March 16 executive order that calls for another 5 gigawatts installed by 2035.

“That kind of policy signal, combined with the state’s grid reliability challenges and its decarbonization commitments, creates the conditions for investment at scale,” Hans Detweiler, senior director for development at Jupiter, said in an email.

Massachusetts officials also hope to speed development with new permitting rules, which run large battery applications through a state-level body instead of piecemeal local processes. Community members still get to weigh in, but the program has a clear 15-month timeline and allows just a single appeal to the state Supreme Court, to ensure a more timely resolution of conflicts in the permitting process.

The true test of all these policies will be whether the recent megabatteries kick off a trend, or remain bold outliers in the region’s energy system.

The most parasocial relationship I have is with a family of eagles that lives in Big Bear Valley, California. I watch them for hours every day through a camera mounted above their nest that is streamed live onto YouTube. There is a mother and a father who’ve been named Jackie and Shadow by the Friends of Big Bear Valley, the nonprofit that runs the webcam. They have two little chicks that, for now, are nameless. Eventually, the two chicks will have their names selected by a group of third graders in Big Bear.

I turn on the livestream when I start my work day, usually watching on my second monitor, but occasionally parking myself on the couch and opting for a more full-screen experience on the TV. I spend my day typing Slack messages, and Jackie and Shadow spend theirs hunting and feeding their babies and maintaining their nest and watching for threats.

When my husband calls on his way home from work to check in I tell him about these developments.

“How was your day?” he asks.

“It was good, but a little stressful because Jackie and Shadow had to leave the chicks to chase off some ravens that were getting too close to the nest.”

“Oh,” he says, “that is stressful,” kindly refraining from pointing out that this information tells him nothing about my day.

My day, usually, is good too, if not also a little stressful. I run the fact-checking department for Mother Jones. I read the news, and like my colleagues, I live in it. I read their reporting carefully, looking for any leaps in logic or possible factual discrepancies or potential legal issues. I believe strongly in what I do, what we do here at the Center for Investigative Reporting, and I like doing it too. Sometimes though, I am overwhelmed by the responsibility of being a journalist in today’s world, or by the news or by just being a person existing.

But I look up from a court document or new draft of a story or an email from a writer when I hear Jackie start to crow. My dog hates the sound, and she’ll pace the living room, looking for the source. Usually, Jackie is shrieking in delight as Shadow delivers a fish from the lake, and she will immediately jump up to feed her chicks. They are just about two weeks old now, but they are growing so fast. They have to, because they’ll fledge the nest in just about eight weeks.

It reminds me of when my husband returns home from work, sometimes with a little treat he’s picked up on the way: a piece of chocolate or a small bag of chips. I crow with delight too, though I have spent the entire day only feet from my kitchen and its full pantry, while Jackie has spent hers 145 feet in the air in a Jeffrey pine tree.

Everything about watching these birds delights me, and simultaneously makes me feel totally insignificant. I get cold and I turn on our heat. Jackie braves snowstorms, creating a canopy with her wings to keep the snow off her chicks. I send more Slacks. Jackie shows her babies how to fly.

Sometimes Jackie stares directly into the camera, and I imagine she’s looking right at me. She can see through the camera and into my living room, me in my enormous stained sweatshirts, my dirty dishes around me, staring at my laptop screen. I wonder how it makes her feel about her nest way up there. I wonder, if from her vantage point, we look as small as I feel.

Santa Cruz’s largest celebration of Oaxacan culture, which recognizes the Mexican state’s diverse music, food and arts, returns to the city this weekend. 

In preparation for the guelaguetza, Isai Pazos, executive director of local nonprofit Senderos, said the organization wanted to learn where most of the region’s Indigenous community from the state of Oaxaca resided. 

So, the organization placed a callout to the community, searching for potential performers — from dancers to musicians — for this year’s event, he said. The organization, Pazos said, received responses from people locally in Watsonville, where there is a high population of Indigenous people, and from surrounding areas such as San Jose, Seaside and Palo Alto. 

Sunday’s event will showcase nearly 150 performers — including Senderos’ youth dance troupe — in addition to food vendors bringing traditional Oaxacan dishes, such as mole and tlayudas. Attendees will also have a chance to purchase crafts and souvenirs from artisans. 

“The purpose of us putting this together is to show other communities in general that we are here as a community to help each other,” Pazos said. The word guelaguetza in Zapotec — one of 16 Indigenous languages spoken in Oaxaca — means helping someone without receiving anything in exchange, he said. 

Typically, the festivities kick off a few days before the main gathering with a procession from Branciforte Avenue into downtown and its “Music and Mole” event, but this year, Pazos told Lookout, Senderos is pausing the pre-events to prioritize safety amid ongoing immigration fears. Last year, the organization almost canceled the event for similar reasons. 

“I think it’s very important for us to just be safe and make sure that every family feels safe and welcome,” Pazos said. 

While the event is meant to be a celebration of Oaxacan culture, Pazos said it’s also an invitation for all community members to learn about and enjoy the culture. The guelaguetza will also be the final event of the inaugural Ripple Effect arts festival. 

“It’s beautiful to see that a lot of community members are interested,” Pazos said. “I’m also interested to see and hear from other community members that are going to the event for the first time.”

Senderos’ 21st guelaguetza will be held on Sunday, April 27, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Branciforte Small Schools campus, 840 N. Branciforte Ave., Santa Cruz. Admission is $10, and children under 5 are free.

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La comunidad de Watsonville lo es todo para Tony Nuñez, y es una de las principales razones por las que decidió postularse para el escaño del Distrito 4 en la Junta de Supervisores del Condado de Santa Cruz.

Nuñez, de 34 años, dijo a Lookout en febrero que su comunidad ha hecho mucho por él y su familia, quienes son residentes de larga data en Watsonville. Ahora quiere continuar una tradición de retribuir a la comunidad, como supervisor del condado.

“Lo que he hecho en mi carrera profesional siempre ha sido sobre retribuir”, dijo en una entrevista este mes. “Ya sea trabajando en The Pajaronian, que fue una gran manera de retribuir y contar las historias de la gente… y luego en Community Bridges, donde sentí que seguía conectado con la comunidad y ayudando a las personas,” dijo Nuñez.

Nuñez compite contra el actual supervisor Felipe Hernandez y el defensor comunitario Elias Gonzales por el puesto de supervisor del Distrito 4, que representa la mayor parte del Valle de Pajaro, Watsonville e Interlaken.

Credit: Kevin Painchaud / Lookout Santa Cruz

Dado que hay más de dos candidatos para el escaño del Distrito 4, las elecciones generales del 3 de noviembre funcionarán como una segunda vuelta entre los dos candidatos con más votos, a menos que uno obtenga la mayoría en las primarias.

Si Nuñez gana el puesto, tendría que dejar su cargo como presidente de la junta del Distrito de Atención Médica del Valle de Pajaro, que opera el Hospital Comunitario de Watsonville. También dejaría su función en Community Bridges.

Nuñez participó en la transición del hospital para convertirlo en una instalación de propiedad pública tras sobrevivir a la bancarrota en 2023. Actualmente forma parte de los esfuerzos para encontrar un socio externo que ayude a gestionar las operaciones diarias del hospital. El hospital reportó una pérdida cercana a 23 millones de dólares para 2025, tras enfrentar múltiples desafíos, incluyendo una disminución de pacientes y cambios en la financiación estatal y federal.

“Creo que estamos muy cerca de avanzar en algo que puede estabilizar el hospital y comenzar a sacarnos de la situación en la que estamos,” dijo Nuñez.

Nuñez afirmó que continuará apoyando al hospital en su camino hacia la estabilidad financiera desde el nivel de supervisor, trabajando con representantes regionales, estatales y federales. “Creo que todavía puedo hacer grandes cosas y avanzar la conversación que hemos iniciado con el distrito de salud y el hospital,” él dijo.

En el último año, funcionarios del condado han enfrentado críticas de residentes del sur del condado por el desarrollo de una ordenanza que regularía las plantas de almacenamiento de baterías, en particular por una propuesta del desarrollador New Leaf Energy, con sede en Massachusetts, para construir una instalación en Minto Road.

En el foro de candidatos de Lookout la semana pasada, Nuñez dijo que muchos residentes con los que ha hablado están en contra del proyecto de New Leaf y preocupados por posibles impactos en la salud pública. Durante el foro, expresó su oposición al proyecto.

La percepción general de estas instalaciones ha cambiado tras el incendio de Moss Landing en 2025, señaló Nuñez. Dijo que apoyaría instalaciones de almacenamiento de baterías, pero solo si se realizan “de la manera correcta” y con la seguridad pública como máxima prioridad.

“¿Cuáles serían las compensaciones de traer algo tan cerca de todos los residentes del área?” dijo Nuñez. “Puede parecer una zona rural de la comunidad o del condado, pero en realidad hay casas justo al lado.”

También expresó preocupación por el uso de tierras agrícolas para el proyecto. El sitio propuesto por New Leaf está ubicado en un huerto de manzanas. “Me preocupa que las tierras agrícolas se reclasifiquen de manera fragmentada,” dijo Nuñez.

Los temores relacionados con la inmigración continúan afectando a los residentes del sur del condado desde el inicio del segundo mandato del presidente Donald Trump. Agentes del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE) han visitado Watsonville al menos 23 veces desde entonces; nueve de esas visitas ocurrieron en los primeros dos meses de 2026.

Credit: Kevin Painchaud / Lookout Santa Cruz

Para garantizar que la comunidad inmigrante se sienta parte de la sociedad y segura para realizar actividades cotidianas, Nuñez dijo que es necesario mostrar solidaridad y comunicar que hay recursos disponibles.

Considera que el condado va por buen camino con la creación de un subcomité para prepararse ante posibles impactos de operativos migratorios, así como con una ordenanza que prohíbe a los agentes de ICE utilizar propiedades del condado para actividades de control migratorio.

Sin embargo, señaló que el condado debe determinar cuántas familias indocumentadas carecen de representación legal y encontrar formas de apoyar a los abogados de inmigración que las ayudan.

“Hay una necesidad real de mayor representación legal para las poblaciones inmigrantes,” él dijo. “No es que los abogados no quieran tomar estos casos… los abogados de inmigración están tratando de ayudar, están extremadamente comprometidos con el trabajo, quieren hacer más y no pueden.”

Nuñez también quiere impulsar el desarrollo económico en el sur del condado. Watsonville no cuenta con una industria fuerte de hospitalidad y turismo, dijo; la economía local está impulsada principalmente por la agricultura y las organizaciones sin fines de lucro. Le gustaría trabajar con funcionarios municipales para desarrollar el turismo en la ciudad.

“Todo comienza trabajando con la ciudad para ver cómo el condado puede ser un mejor socio en la revitalización del centro,” Nuñez dijo.

Un problema importante que enfrenta el condado es generar ingresos adicionales para financiar programas que satisfagan las necesidades de la comunidad, señaló Nuñez. El personal del condado proyecta un déficit de 23.2 millones de dólares para el año fiscal 2026-27, y un déficit estructural a largo plazo que podría alcanzar los 67.5 millones para 2028-29 si no se toman medidas.

Una de las iniciativas que Nuñez quiere crear es un sólido programa de asistencia para el pago inicial de viviendas para residentes locales, especialmente en el sur del condado, con el fin de aumentar la propiedad de vivienda. Sin embargo, reconoció que esto requiere tiempo y recursos.

“Lo número uno que podemos hacer es tratar de resolver nuestra economía local y realmente impulsar nuevos negocios en Watsonville, en el sur del condado y en todo el condado,” dijo Nuñez. “Si no ponemos mucho esfuerzo en eso, seguiremos enfrentando el mismo problema: no tenemos suficiente financiación ni suficientes ingresos.”

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