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A total of 245 students have tested positive since the winter quarter began Jan. 4. Eighty-five percent of the 109 infected students living on campus went home for the holidays.
The COVID-19 pandemic continued to cast a shadow as the La Jolla Village Merchants Association approved its strategic plan for the coming year during its Jan. 13 meeting, its first of 2021.
The Village in La Jolla is losing two businesses: Karl Strauss Brewing Co. at 1044 Wall St. and San Diego Fly Rides bike shop at 7444 Girard Ave.
The La Jolla Shores Association voted to approve a local group’s recommendations for improving the city of San Diego’s proposed parks master plan.
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As governments, scientists and individuals grapple with how to tackle a possible looming climate crisis, new research from UC San Diego released Jan. 14 explores a potential mode of response that seems borderline science fiction.
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The La Jolla Development Permit Review Committee heard two very diverse projects during its Jan. 12 meeting, with two very different outcomes.
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It’s common knowledge that eating well and exercising are precursors to a healthy life — and seemingly the solution for many ailments.
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Researchers at the UC San Diego School of Medicine say they have found that certain metabolites — small molecules produced by the process of metabolism — may be predictive indicators for people at risk of clinical depression.
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While most sports teams packed in their gear when the COVID-19 pandemic canceled local games and tournaments, the Mad Dog West Elite lacrosse team — which has four La Jolla players — got creative.
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About 30 people attended the Jan. 12 La Jolla Development Permit Review Committee meeting to discuss the planned replacement of the La Jolla View Reservoir, many with concerns about the project.
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San Diego Unified School District officials again held off on setting a potential date for reopening schools because COVID-19 cases and deaths continue their relentless growth.
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This Month in History is a recurring feature in the La Jolla Light highlighting local happenings from yesteryear.
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“I just got tired of looking at it,” La Jollan Chris Cott said of the graffiti he helps clean up around town.
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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.
The La Jolla Light presents this continuing series of online activities to undertake on your computer or tablet during your quarantine quandary.
The healing power of music: Bishop’s School students bring virtual concerts to seniors and hospitals
The healing power of music: Bishop’s School students bring virtual concerts to seniors and hospitals
To share the healing and connective power of music, a group of students at The Bishop’s School in La Jolla formed Melodies for Remedies at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic to bring virtual concerts to people in assisted living facilities and hospitals.
Last year was tough for many, but for La Jollan Jake Weiss, 10, it was the year he achieved his goal: to rank in the top 10 in the U.S.
A La Jolla woman has come forward as the originator of the “Rosemont Trading Post” following the structure’s mysterious appearance last month on the La Jolla Bike Path.
Although the 2020 La Jolla Cove 10-Mile Relay was canceled out of caution due to the COVID-19 pandemic, organizers of the swim still wanted to raise money for the charities the event supports.
As coronavirus cases surge countywide, two local teenagers are working to help two industries that have been heavily affected: health care and restaurants.
Dozens of brave people from across San Diego County gathered Jan. 1 for a scaled-down pandemic version of one of their favorite traditions: celebrating the new year by splashing in cold ocean water at La Jolla Shores.
When Preuss School eighth-grader Arely Gómez Hernández submitted her play “The Fight for a Dream” for possible inclusion in the Plays by Young Writers Festival, she had no expectation that her manuscript would be anything but part of a class assignment.
Unlike the chalk messages drawn on the La Jolla Bike Path in recent months, a new, less ephemeral structure has appeared.
The La Jolla Light presents this continuing series of online activities to undertake on your computer or tablet during your quarantine quandary.
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.
When the COVID-19 pandemic sent everyone into lockdown, senior citizens — a population deemed among most the vulnerable — were hit especially hard.
Two local women have embarked on a La Jolla-based nonprofit organization aimed at helping struggling artists turn their creativity into full-time work.
When she creates her spirituality- and nature-inspired pieces of art, La Jolla High School graduate and muralist Melanie Atesalp likes to draw from the immediate environment.
Recent La Jolla transplant Jim Owens doesn’t like the word “exercise” — he prefers the word “movement.”
The stage at the La Jolla Music Society’s Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center will transform Saturday, Nov. 7, with the livestream-only world-premiere performance of “Metamorphosis” from Grammy Award-winning group Third Coast Percussion and Movement Art Is.
Mays co-wrote and will play all the roles in the filmed adaptation of the Charles Dickens holiday classic.
Business Spotlight: La Jolla resident Andrew Melone thinks he has a recipe for a home-cooked meal that can’t be topped: fresh ingredients artfully assembled and ready to go from American Pizza Mfg., the “family-focused pizza and pasta concept” he opened in July at 7402 La Jolla Blvd.
For La Jollans Doreen Schonbrun and Phyllis Epstein, advocating for the arts in education isn’t a job, it’s a passion.
“It’s been a good life,” La Jolla Shores resident Linda Olson said of the one she’s built with the help of her husband after surviving an accident 41 years ago that left her a triple amputee.
The San Diego Center for Jewish Culture, a division of the Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center, began its 2020-21 “Arts & Ideas” season this month in an entirely virtual format designed to provide high-quality viewing experiences.
As restaurants have taken their tables and chairs outside during the coronavirus pandemic, La Jolla artist Paula McColl has taken to her canvases and brushes to paint them, and showed three such La Jolla works at a one-night exhibition Oct. 13 at Bistro du Marché on Girard Avenue.
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La Jolla High School hosted a special “signing day” ceremony for its Viking football players the morning of Dec. 16.
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The one thing La Jollan Judd Henkes loves the most is the one thing he can’t do here: snowboard.
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Seventeen La Jolla student-athletes participated in the reconfigured National Signing Day on Nov. 11, committing to colleges as close as UC San Diego and as far away as Harvard University.
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Happy new year, and we at Quiet Skies La Jolla extend our best wishes to all for a better 2021.
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This commentary is being published both by the La Jolla Light (lajollalight.com) and the La Jolla High School Hi-Tide (ljhitide.net) as part of a partnership to give La Jolla High students the opportunity to express their views in the community newspaper.
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In overlooking the urgent needs to vaccinate teachers and other staff to reopen classrooms, Newsom’s ‘Safe Schools for All’ plan omits the one action that could have the most dramatic and immediate impact on reducing the spread of the coronavirus in school communities.
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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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We asked you to show us your masks now that we’re all supposed to wear them in public places because of the coronavirus.
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La Jolla’s spectacular scenery and village atmosphere provide a lot of opportunities for great photos.
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Shelter to Soldier honors its Red Star corporate sponsors at a recent reception. The nonprofit organization adopts dogs from local shelters and trains them to become psychiatric service dogs for post-9/11 combat veterans.
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La Jolla Newcomers Club members continued its regular meetups and activities by visiting Balboa Park, touring the Park’s Natural History Museum, holding an educational history hike of Bird Rock, and gathering for a “Paint and Sip” happy hour.
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Business Spotlight: The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UC San Diego is in the first week of its winter quarter, offering myriad courses to help keep locals learning the rest of their lives.
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Business Spotlight: Jackson Design & Remodeling’s award-winning designers and architects have compiled their annual list of the top design trends for the new year.
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Business Spotlight: Hoping to help customers enjoy fine dining at home while restaurants are closed to onsite dining, chef and restaurateur Giuseppe Ciuffa is offering options, including a just-launched meal prep service.
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Sometimes I think I’ve fallen into the twilight zone when I realize I live in a state where it’s illegal to get a haircut.
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Dear American and Swedish friends, It is hard to believe that it is time for our annual holiday letter again.
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My children never got to know my parents, so I’m always trying to think of ways to pass down their legacy.
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As we all know, sometimes the only thing you can control in life is your attitude.
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Like lots of families, it was Thanksgiving for two at our house this year. We could have eaten out.
