Less than a year after the unveiling of the Children’s Pool Plaza, members of the La Jolla Parks & Beaches advisory group (LJP&B) are starting to see it marked with vendors selling their wares. And these vending operations became legal on Jan. 1 following the passage of Senate Bill 946, dubbed...
Facilitated by the La Jolla Parks & Beaches advisory group, the one-mile La Jolla Open Swim (formerly known as the La Jolla Rough Water Swim) is 9 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 8 with ingress and egress at La Jolla Cove, and will be swam in five heats based on age.
On a recent weekday morning, a man walked past the La Jolla Cove Bridge Club with his green tank top pulled up around his nose. It’s a popular look around La Jolla Cove during warmer months. “Is there a dead seal around here?” the man asked the Light. “I’m from Canada and I know what a dead seal...
The reunions are held every year, for the veteran-athletes that served at the Quantico officer base during the Vietnam War. This year's was in La Jolla
La Jolla High School sent both of its lacrosse teams to the CIF playoffs (girls and boys each cleared the CIF quarterfinals the weekend of May 10), and several other teams have already brought home titles. Here is a wrap-up of the Viking’s spring sports season: Boys Lacrosse Still holding on to...
Callen Hyland, UC San Diego research scientist and La Jolla Library Wet Lab volunteer, gave a talk May 7 at the library to release the preliminary data of a crowdfunded study that looked at the microbial diversity of La Jolla Cove and other beaches. She opened her talk with a word of caution: “These...
La Jolla Shores Association discussed its continuing push to have the Kellogg Park parking lot gates locked at night
BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT: A new Club Pilates will open on May 30 at 8657 Villa La Jolla Drive, Suite 125, between Nobel Drive and Via Mallorca. Club Pilates La Jolla will specialize in Reformer Fusion classes for any age or fitness level. This is the third Club Pilates for owner Brianna Clements, who...
La Jolla resident Verna Griffin-Tabor has dedicated the last 30 years to helping and supporting the survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence. Specifically, she has been the CEO of Center for Community Solutions since 1998.
On the twentieth anniversary of his death, we remember La Jolla native Jeffrey Junkins, who survived Vietnam but not life back home.
La Jolla dentist Tracy Taddey completed this year’s Boston Marathon on April 15 achieving a longtime personal goal. Despite an injury, challenging changes in weather and an unfamiliar course, she ran the race in four hours, 28 minutes
After two laborious years, Diane Kane held the completed nomination form to list La Jolla’s Children’s Pool on the National Register of Historic Places in her hands, minutes before putting in the mail bound for the State Office of Historic Preservation in Sacramento on May 7.
Muirlands Middle School teacher Julie Latta is one of the San Diego Unified School District's Teacher of the Year runner-up.
The San Diego Unified School District has launched its system-wide STEAM Initiative at a series of public schools, and Bird Rock Elementary is the first – and thus far only – La Jolla school to sign on.
Spring rescues consistent for local lifeguards San Diego Fire & Rescue Marine Safety Lt. Rich Stropky told the La Jolla Shores Association during its May 8 meeting that the spring had been “typical” in terms of rescues: “The water warmed up a little bit, not too much, so rescues are up and cliff...
During a public forum on future transportation options at the May 9 La Jolla Town Council (LJTC) meeting, deep frustration was expressed with the lack of any dedicated shuttle service planned from The Village to the San Diego Association of Governments’ (SANDAG) Mid-Coast Trolley. Scheduled to...