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After years of complaints being blown around about gas-powered leaf blowers, representatives of several local groups have begun meeting to explore forming a coalition to combat the noise and environmental effects.
Hoping to find quantitative data that can measure the impact of short-term rentals under the city of San Diego’s new ordinance, the La Jolla Community Planning Association will work with the Ocean Beach Planning Board on a set of metrics to submit to the city.
With four weeks of in-person learning completed and most students on campus four days a week following a 13-month pandemic-related closure, the five San Diego Unified School District schools that make up the La Jolla Cluster have reported a total of four cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus, as of May 7.
With a UC San Diego expert forecasting flooding in La Jolla with nearly every high tide by the end of the century, San Diego City Councilman Joe LaCava said battling climate change, and specifically local sea-level rise, will take an approach combining “science, collaboration and grassroots advocacy.”
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Seven speakers from the La Jolla Country Day School community shared personal experiences related to “Agency, Resilience and Persistence,” the theme of the school’s inaugural TEDx event streamed live.
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The mayor vows to fully restore service within a year, but officials say staffing challenges prevent anything sooner.
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After being dark for six months, The Lot La Jolla’s movie theaters are lighted up once again — until show time, that is.
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For being a tiny street in the middle of Bird Rock, Moss Lane has gotten a lot of attention over the years.
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After four years on the San Diego City Council, I’ve returned to the world of innovation and entrepreneurship, and this week, here is what’s on my mind as my darling husband, Neil, takes time off to go fishing.
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The California Department of Public Health said it is monitoring the ransomware attack that severely impacted Scripps Health facilities throughout San Diego County, including in La Jolla, but has thus far determined that emergency procedures underway since May 1 have been adequate to ensure patients are safe.
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In a year in which high school sports are facing a lot of differences — a shorter season, a season in a different time of year, new safety precautions — one thing remains the same with the current water polo season: the crosstown rivalry between The Bishop’s School and La Jolla High School.
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The San Diego County Health & Human Services Agency posts an updated list at 8 a.m. daily of coronavirus cases by ZIP code, including rates per 100,000 residents.
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Letter to the editor
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Josephine “Jo Bobbie” MacConnell Showley, a consummate hostess and the last surviving founding member of the women’s philanthropy Las Patronas, turned 100 on April 11, celebrating with immediate family members at her home in La Jolla.
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The La Jolla Light presents this continuing series of online activities to undertake on your computer or tablet during your quarantine quandary. • UC San Diego presents “Empowering Community Through Reflection and Recognition,” the kickoff to its 15th-anniversary Asian and Pacific Islander American Heritage Celebration at noon Thursday, May 6, online.
In a school year characterized by unprecedented challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the five public schools in La Jolla have chosen their Teachers of the Year for 2021.
Annabelle Selldorf, lead architect for the renovation and expansion of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego’s La Jolla location, says her work process is “fueled by specificity.”
“A woman who speaks is a woman with power,” says Katya Azzam, who coaches the Rhyme and Reason speech and debate team of eight middle school students, most of whom attend Muirlands Middle School in La Jolla.
The winners of the statewide Climate Video Challenge are in, and the creators of two of the top three videos hail from La Jolla.
Ken King, Carol Studebaker and about a dozen other residents of the White Sands La Jolla retirement community are trying to metamorphosize the way their generation views the environment.
La Jollan Lucas Leaverton is turning his passion for tricks on his skateboard into entrepreneurship to help spread his message that skateboarding encourages community and creativity.
The La Jolla Light presents this continuing series of online activities to undertake on your computer or tablet during your quarantine quandary. • The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and the San Diego Museum of Art present the 21st annual Axline Lecture featuring internationally acclaimed architect Annabelle Selldorf at 5 p.m.
Connor Nellans, who works with Compass in La Jolla, and Kaitlyn Kassis win $25,000 on TBS show.
Earth Day 2021 brought more than a dozen volunteers to the La Jolla coast for a beach cleanup — the first such in-person effort organized by the Sierra Club Seal Society of San Diego since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Fresh Paint Gallery in La Jolla is hosting “Radical Inclusion,” featuring the works of autistic artist Katie Flores and her mentor, Amanda Saint Claire, through Tuesday, April 27.
‘Sex, Lies and the Priesthood’ tells the story of the late Richard Sipe, who helped expose abuse.
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and UC San Diego music professor Anthony Davis will be inducted May 19 into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, one of the nation’s most exclusive and prestigious cultural awards for sustained artistic excellence and innovation.
The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library opened its “Paula McColl: Celebrating La Jolla” show April 1, welcoming a small group of visitors to an exhibit reception for the first time since coronavirus restrictions were implemented last year.
In one of the broadest acts of local philanthropy in years, the Conrad Prebys Foundation is giving a total of nearly $78 million in grants to 121 projects across San Diego County to bolster the arts, health care, medical research and other causes.
Ira Cosmos loves La Jolla and creating art. So the Ukrainian artist, who moved to California four years ago, has turned her van into a blend of the two as she hopes to add more of her vision to The Village.
La Jolla native Jonathan Cohen is one of the artists and designers who contributed to the La Jolla Designer Showcase Home, with sale proceeds going to nonprofits of their choosing. (Includes video)
Local artist Alison Haley Paul’s face might not be a familiar fixture in La Jolla, but her paintings are.
Rishi Deka, a UC San Diego postdoctoral researcher in radiation medicine and an award-winning photojournalist, has taken to creating what he calls “psychedelic abstract photography” in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
A new mural is adding its “visual lexicon” to The Village, and its creator hopes it will offer La Jolla viewers something “playful and light.”
While the COVID-19 pandemic ushered in a new era of screen time — Zoom teleconferencing, more Netflix than anyone thought possible and FaceTime as a way to socialize — it also seems to have brought out a lot of authors and other creatives in our own backyard.
Two local women have embarked on a La Jolla-based nonprofit organization aimed at helping struggling artists turn their creativity into full-time work.
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All tickets will be refunded, then put on sale again to select groups starting next week.
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Ticket sales have been suspended and volunteers drastically cut back.
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After 15 years as manager, Scott Farr will be leaving the club April 30.
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As a progressive minister, nothing is more frustrating than hearing someone restate the culturally ubiquitous phrase “Keep politics out of the pulpit.”
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Now more than ever, buyers (and often sellers) want a speedy escrow closing.
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At last -- Play Ball!
At last -- Play Ball!
Saturday, March 20, was a special day for Rancho Santa Fe Little League players and coaches as they were finally able to play in their first games of the season at Richardson Field, Tee Ball Field and RSF Sports Field.
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With limited, family-only fans cheering them on, the Bishop’s School Knights took on the cross-town rival La Jolla Country Day School Torreys on March 20, on La Jolla High School’s field.
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The La Jolla Historical Society presented its Jewel Awards ceremony March 12 with limited attendance at the historically designated home of Ann Craig.
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Crowds of Black Lives Matter supporters gathered at La Jolla Cove and proceeded to march to Windansea in a mass demonstration June 12.
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La Jolla’s spectacular scenery and village atmosphere provide a lot of opportunities for great photos.
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Business Spotlight: Tasende Gallery in La Jolla will present the exhibition “Perpetual Provocation” by artist Armando Romero from May 21 to July 3, continuing a 42-year run of showing art at 820 Prospect St. in The Village.
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Business Spotlight: At the La Jolla Shores-based Surf Education Academy, instructors go beyond the basics of surfing.
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Business Spotlight: La Jolla’s Alcorn & Benton Architects has been offering clients a variety of design services for years, using its community knowledge to strengthen its planning power.
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You know that life around you has become too perpetually noisy when you hear a sound that you can’t quite place but it seems familiar.
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The pandemic has changed all our lives since it took hold in earnest in March 2020.
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I’ve written before about some of the curious behaviors of dogs, but ours has taken up an unwelcome new one: rolling in her own poop.
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There have long been allegations that there are plenty of parking structure and other off-street spaces in downtown La Jolla if the local denizens weren’t too cheap to pay for them.
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It has not escaped my attention that all of my favorite TV shows are sponsored by antidepressants.
