Installed in the 1940s, the current flagpole’s base has termite- and water-damage from the City’s sprinkler system, the paint is peeling, and a memorial plaque affixed to the base has been worn out and damaged.
About once a week, irresponsible late-night drivers ignore the traffic-calming devices and speed right through Bird Rock's roundabouts instead of circling through them.
Munk died at 4:15 p.m. of pneumonia at Seiche, his seaside home near UC San Diego, a campus he helped make famous through decades of work at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
At last! UC Span Diego The Gilman Bridge, which joins UC San Diego’s main campus with Medical Center Drive to the east, opened across Interstate 5 on Friday, Feb. 8. The day before, UCSD held a ribbon-cutting and community celebration for 500 attendees gathered on the bridge. “The Gilman Bridge...
As scooters continue to colonize San Diego's streets — blocking parking garages, walkways and encroaching onto private property — locals are beginning to fight back. While some residents have resorted to vandalism (tossing scooters into dumpsters and lakes), two businessmen in Pacific Beach are...
Within 24 hours of each other, San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer and District 1 City Council member Barbara Bry issued information about their respective recommendations surrounding motorized, dockless scooters. The evening of Feb. 6, Mayor Faulconer posted on Twitter: “Next week (Wednesday, Feb....
Opinion / Letters to the Editor / Our Readers Write: The following are Letters to the Editor from recent issues of La Jolla Light as La Jollans speak out on local issues. Letters published in La Jolla Light express views from readers in regard to community issues. To share your thoughts in this...
BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT: The first thing you notice when you enter Kiwi Spa is, well, the kiwis. They're everywhere. On pillows, on the wall, and even on the earrings that spa owner Maya Banks wears. The scrubs that Banks and her estheticians, Luna and Anastasia, wear are kiwi green. And Maya's nail...
David Severance is the former captain who delivered the order, on Feb. 23, 1945, to plant a flag atop the highest hill on Japan’s Iwo Jima island, resulting in THE WORLD WAR II PHOTOGRAPH etched into America’s collective memory.
As the youth services librarian, Sanchez said she wants to expand programming for teens and tweens. “A lot of libraries, unfortunately, really only focus on the young kids,” she said. "So that is my passion: catching them at that very influential time in their lives."
This year’s girls water polo cross-town rivalry victory went to The Bishop’s School Knights, after they defeated the La Jolla High School Vikings Feb. 1 at their home pool, 9-5. It was the second of two victories this season, after the Knights defeated the Vikings 11-5 on Jan. 3. The Knights are...
Road rage incident on Via Capri A road rage incident on Via Capri led to a suspect taking a baseball bat to another person’s car around 5 p.m. on Feb. 4. Police report the incident took place on the 7700 block, where the suspect struck the victim’s vehicle with a bat causing damage to the driver’s...
Recommended by LJCPA trustee Dave Gordon and discussed at the Feb. 7 meeting at La Jolla Rec Center, the proposed change would allow a trustee to stay in the room in the event they are also the applicant or have some other direct economic interest.
Students from Torrey Pines Elementary School celebrated Kindness Week on campus with a full slate of events Jan. 28 to Feb. 2. "Kindness stations" were set up with activities during recess, there were themed dress-up days and more, which culminated with a school-wide volunteer day to sort food...
The future of heart-disease treatment, research and prevention was discussed during a 90-minute seminar at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP) on Feb. 7 — just in time to make the Light’s Valentine’s Day issue. New treatments The biggest current breakthrough is a new class...
Guest Commentary / Opinion / Our Readers Write: There have been countless news stories regarding the opioid fentanyl, and the fact that San Diego is where the deadly drug is being smuggled through. DEA officials have said 85 percent of the illicit fentanyl entering the United States from Mexico...