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While Friends of Windansea waits for a final hearing on whether it can proceed with plans to build a belvedere shade structure at Windansea Beach, a plan to keep people off makeshift trails on the bluffs there has hit a snag and is at least on pause.
‘We are very much on schedule, on budget, on time,’ La Jolla Parks & Beaches President Bob Evans says.
Xiang-Dong Fu says he was forced to resign after UC San Diego investigated his ties to Chinese researchers, part of a controversial initiative that some say unfairly scrutinized Chinese professors at American universities.
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A 55-year-old man was killed in a fiery head-on collision the evening of Dec. 5 near the Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve in La Jolla, according to San Diego police.
The La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club hosted the USTA National 40 Hard Court Championships last week, crowning champions in men’s and women’s singles and doubles tennis.
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In what chairwoman Ann Kerr Bache called the largest-ever La Jolla Christmas Parade, thousands of spectators lined Girard Avenue and Prospect Street to watch marching bands, pageant queens, parade marshals, civic leaders and more in the 66th annual edition Dec. 4.
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The issue presents a quandary of how to ‘balance civil rights with the needs of the community,’ local police say.
Late novelist and screenwriter Raymond Chandler’s last book, “Playback,” is set in the fictitious town Esmerelda, but those who read it will find some striking similarities to La Jolla.
Despite concerns about impacts from construction and traffic, the La Jolla Community Planning Association voted Dec. 1 to support a plan to develop a site on Coast Boulevard South that contains historically designated houses.
La Jolla CPA decides changing the description from ‘attic’ to allow upper space to be used for sleeping satisfies the terms of the project’s existing permit. The change is being reviewed by the city of San Diego.
La Jolla’s La Valencia Hotel held its annual Christmas tree lighting Dec. 1 as groups of carolers provided entertainment for hundreds of guests who crowded the hotel’s Prospect Street patio and the La Sala Lounge inside.
Black ties and teddy bears were the order of the evening as the nonprofit Cruise 4 Kids presented its annual Teddy Ball on Nov. 26 at the Hyatt Regency La Jolla at Aventine hotel.
San Diego Unified School District officials notified parents of a cybersecurity threat Dec. 1 and advised all staff and students to change their school-related account passwords.
The shaking will be equivalent to the magnitude 6.7 Northridge earthquake and could answer questions about the durability of ‘tall timber.’
