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As California opens up again as COVID-19 wanes, the Sierra Club Seal Society and Sierra Club San Diego want to see Point La Jolla next to La Jolla Cove closed down for the next few months, citing excessive harassment of sea lions and their pups.
Amid balloons, music and a red carpet, the La Jolla Village Merchants Association held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the 39 businesses that opened in The Village during the COVID-19 pandemic.
San Diego police, family and friends remember Detectives Ryan Park and Jamie Huntley-Park.
Locals who recall Tiger Woods’ dramatic playoff victory say this year’s capacity-restricted contest could be just as exciting, though in a different way.
A “Doggy Pit Stop” has appeared on the La Jolla Bike Path at the Rosemont Street entrance, a painted wooden structure offering water and treats to passing canines and waste bags to their owners.
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A 91-year-old woman suffered a non-life-threatening brain bleed when she was struck by an SUV while crossing Wall Street in La Jolla around 1:05 p.m.
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“Finally, there’s some activity” on a project to install a handrail along the Spindrift Drive beach access corridor in The Shores, local planning group member Patrick Ahern said at last week’s virtual meeting of the La Jolla Shores Association.
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Coastal Access and Parking Board member is exploring a revival of the La Jolla Community Parking District.
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Letters to the editor
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La Jolla Maintenance Assessment District progress report.
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The first ceremony June 12 was delayed 30 minutes to let in the crowds.
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The children were taken to Rady Children’s Hospital for treatment of minor injuries.
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When it came to establishing the latest in the Little Free Libraries scattered across La Jolla, Brian Bigley, Marko Barron and Bo Fellows set out to create something to encourage literacy, generate a new “life cycle” for books and pay homage to a long-gone but beloved La Jolla bookstore.
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With California dropping its COVID-19 tier system and most mask requirements, many local businesses and organizations say guests won’t have to mask up but some pandemic practices will remain for now.
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With vaccination rates up and COVID-19 cases way down, California is poised to ditch masks and social distancing, but there are still some rules and protections in place as we navigate a new pandemic landscape.
Check out the available summer camps around San Diego County.
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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, as well local in-person events as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic. • The San Diego County Bike Coalition presents “City Cycling” at 6 p.m.
Upgrades will include pool and deck resurfacing, a new shaded cabana, improved storage and an expanded spa.
More than 100 St. Germaine members and guests gather at The Lot La Jolla as the granddaughter of the organization’s founder takes the helm as president.
The La Jolla Light presents this continuing series of online activities to undertake on your computer or tablet during your quarantine quandary, as well as local in-person events as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic. • I Love a Clean San Diego and the city of Encinitas present the sixth annual Zero Waste Fair at 9 a.m.
As local high school seniors prepare to head off to universities and experiences beyond La Jolla, many of them took an afternoon to return to elementary school.
LeTip of La Jolla is celebrating its 40th anniversary as the oldest chapter of a nationwide organization designed to help its members grow their businesses through referrals.
“We’re always maturing as readers and writers,” said Lenore Ringler, adding that literacy learning starts in infancy.
On June 8, 1887, construction began on one of the first houses built in La Jolla, according to “This Day in San Diego History” by Linda Pequegnat.
The chamber music festival will return July 30 to Aug. 20 with live performances at the Baker-Baum Concert Hall and the adjacent JAI.
Eight La Jolla students will be – virtually – travelling to our state’s capitol for the American Legion’s Boys State program this month for a hands-on, realistic experience in civic responsibility.
The La Jolla Light presents this continuing series of online activities to undertake on your computer or tablet during your quarantine quandary, as well as local in-person events as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic. • UC San Diego’s African and African-American Studies Research Center presents its 27th annual awards banquet at 4 p.m.
When the Scripps Institution of Oceanography was founded more than a century ago, the term “oceanography” as we know it barely existed.
For its first in-person exhibition in more than a year, the La Jolla Historical Society is taking a slightly different approach with “Our Ocean’s Edge,” a collection of black-and-white photographs by Jasmine Swope that depict life in California’s marine protected areas, paired with poetic narratives by author Dwight Holing.
While some people spent the past 14 months of the COVID-19 pandemic counting masks and bottles of hand sanitizer, others took to canvas, ceramics and other media to create.
If you missed the in-person chance to see pieces from La Jolla students and others at the San Diego Museum of Art during its biennial “Young Art” exhibit, you can still take a virtual tour.
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.”
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.
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)
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The Bishop’s School boys and girls water polo teams went undefeated this season and are seeded No. 1 going into the CIF San Diego Section playoffs, which start Wednesday, June 9.
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La Jolla resident Sally Fuller, 91, has spent the past half of her life playing tennis and in recent years has managed to turn her pastime into a national top two ranking.
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Bleachers and other infrastructure go up to accommodate an expected 10,000 fans a day for the major tournament June 17-20.
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Marty Cooper is best known as the “father of the cellphone” that debuted in 1973, long before the internet, the personal computer, the cordless phone or even a television remote control.
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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Business Spotlight: When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, many of us questioned our susceptibility to the disease and the strength of our immune system — especially with the laundry list of underlying conditions that made the effects of the coronavirus worse.
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Business Spotlight: At Butterfly Gardens, there’s something to the assisted-living facility that makes it feel more like a home than simply a house.
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Business Spotlight: Performing is “an act of love,” according to Francois Chouchan, who is moving his classical music enterprise, Le Salon de Musiques, to La Jolla later this year, hoping to share his passion with a new audience.
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As anyone who has been reading my column for a while knows, I’m a sucker for “listicles,” those popular website lists like “What your car/phone/plants say about you” and “12 ways to lose 30 pounds in a week.”
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Over the 12 years I’ve been writing this column, chocolate has been a frequent topic, most recently as a health food, which, by the way, it has finally been determined to be — at least a part of it that may have heart benefits.
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I was genuinely dismayed to read recently in The New York Times of the death of a man who has had a profound impact on my life.
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The jig is up, medical science. I don’t believe a word you say anymore.
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I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant: I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.
