Members of the La Jolla Shores Association (LJSA) are incensed over the City’s approach to summer trash pickup in their tourist-laden beach community, following reports of overflowing refuse bins and garbage piling up on the street. The City is blaming the situation on local businesses for not...
Despite claims made to La Jolla Light last spring that the City would look into modifying its schedule and employing traffic engineers to improve the situation — and promises made earlier this month to the La Jolla Traffic & Transportation Board (T&T) to keep all lanes open — the City will resume...
The project was originally approved locally more than 10 years ago, and has undergone City-approved changes ever since, before getting the green light to proceed with construction.
An attempt to change elements of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego’s (MCASD) $75 million expansion is stirring controversy in the architecture world mere weeks before the expansion — approved unanimously by the City last year — gets underway.
While the La Jolla Riford Library has books, magazines and more about cooking, a new monthly workshop is taking things a step further. Dubbed “SweetRoots,” the first in a series of free workshops will be 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 25 at the 7555 Draper Ave. library and themed “Totally Raw-some: Raw...
La Jolla Vikings football will be facing some changes this season: the league in which they play is different, there will not be a La Jolla High vs. Bishop’s School Knights match-up in the regular season and schedules are shorter — the athletic schedule actually starts before the school year even...
Before most people’s coffee has fully kicked in on Thursday mornings, members of the La Jolla Sunrise Rotary Club have already been up, had breakfast, fulfilled their Rotarian meeting duties, heard “Ted-Talk style” lectures from experts in various industries, explored different service opportunities...
BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT: Nativa Interiors, with its two floors of unique, high-quality furnishings, has been a fixture in the Village of La Jolla since 2013. Customers are drawn in by the handmade splendors on the showroom floor showcasing hundreds of exclusive items for sale. But lately, customers...
In a barely lit room outside the La Jolla Historical Society gallery, kept cool from the humidity outside, architect Laura Ducharme Conboy guides 12 high school-aged aspiring architects through a sketching exercise as part of the La Jolla Historical Society’s young architect’s summer camp. She...
Opinion / Guest Commentary / Our Readers Write: Do you aspire to spend quality time with family and friends exploring the natural beauty of Southern California's beaches, deserts, forests, fields, islands and mountains? The La Jolla YMCA Aloha Adventure Clubs are recruiting for campouts in all...
The 25th annual Luau and Legends of Surfing Invitational — to be held Sunday, Aug. 19 on the beach below Scripps Pier — will feature dozens of returning wave-catching giants including Robert “Wingnut” Weaver, Jock Sutherland, Jericho Poppler and Lisa Andersen. Beginning at 7 a.m., each legend will...
Before discussion even began on the controversial project to develop three houses on three lots on Lookout Drive at the Aug. 2 La Jolla Community Planning Association (LJCPA) meeting, trustees, the applicant and attendees were reminded to maintain civility. LJCPA chair Bob Steck, for the first...
Police Blotter July 22 Vehicle break-in/theft, 7500 block La Jolla Blvd., 6:30 p.m. Petty theft, 7300 block Brodiaea Way, 7 p.m. July 29 Vehicle break-in/theft, 800 block Archer St., 1 a.m. July 31 Petty theft, 5600 block Dolphin Place, 6 p.m. Assault with a deadly weapon (details coming in a future...
As the largest wildfire in California’s history raged in Mendocino County, which as of press date has burned over 28,000 acres, killed one firefighter and is 67 percent contained, Congress member Scott Peters’ office (D-CA 52nd District) organized a wildlife preparedness panel discussion Aug. 7...
Through Sept. 12, UC San Diego is accepting comments on its Draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the 2018 La Jolla Long Range Development Plan. The Draft EIR can be viewed at: lrdp.ucsd.edu A public hearing on the Draft EIR will be held 6 p.m. Thursday Aug. 23 at the UC San Diego Faculty...
Inside La Jolla’s main supermarket, Vons at 7544 Girard Ave., a barbecue grill and two bins of toy balls stand where bank tellers once did. Sometime before Aug. 1, the branch was closed and all traces of it removed — including every sign and even the two Wells Fargo ATMs. (A lone Federal Credit...