In response to parent concerns over the safety of a crossing at Nautilus Street at Fay Avenue, the City of San Diego has installed signage on the overhang. When the light turns green at the T-intersection, it is for both student pedestrians leaving Muirlands Middle School and La Jolla High School...
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...
Well that was fast! Within a few months of La Jolla Park’s & Beaches (LJP&B) advisory committee being made aware of some palm trees in need of trimming on Coast Boulevard, the group partnered with the City and local residents to solve the problem. In March, the board was asked by a nearby Homeowners...
On the last day of harbor seal pupping season (May 15) — and less than one month before the next California Coastal Commission (CCC) meeting to review the protection issue — the Seal Conservancy of San Diego held a press conference to speak in favor of renewing seasonal beach closure and guideline...
When San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer released his revised Fiscal Year 2020 budget on May 14, it included funding for the La Jolla Maintenance Assessment District (MAD), clearing the final hurdle to getting the MAD going in The Village. A MAD is a legal mechanism by which property owners can vote...
For over three decades, Malashock Dance has been a moving force in the San Diego arts community. In fact, founder John Malashock — who grew up in La Jolla — was the winner of the Bravo Icon Award in 2017, in recognition of his long years of high-level achievement in the performing arts. The year...
UCSD links herbicide to liver disease UC San Diego School of Medicine researchers report that exposure to glyphosate — the primary ingredient in Monsanto’s popular Roundup weed-killer — correlates to more severe cases of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Published in Clinical Gastroenterology and...
BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT: Chicks don't surf. That's what male surfers told Izzy Tihanyi, CEO and owner of Surf Diva in La Jolla Shores , back in 1996 when she and her twin sister, Coco, opened Surf Diva. The passionate surfing sisters sure proved them wrong. In 1996, there were no surf schools for women...
Editor’s Note: This is the first in a new occasional feature, “Hell of a Day,” wherein reporter Corey Levitan samples a job in town during the crazy-busiest day of that business’ year to let us know what it’s like! The last time anyone wants a yutz getting in the way at their flower shop is on...
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 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
Woman accosted at La Jolla liquor store A shopper at the Keg N Bottle shop and tasting room on Torrey Pines Road was reportedly accosted by an employee, around 9:45 p.m. April 27. Police report the victim went into the store to purchase a bottle of wine when “the clerk showed her where it was and...
At the La Jolla Traffic & Transportation (T&T) board meeting on May 15, chair Dave Abrams announced that the City rejected three recent recommendations, saying that “they all fell down in flames.” They included the board’s Dec. 19, 2018 recommendation to place a right-turn arrow on southbound North...
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
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