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Thursday, May 13 • La Jolla Town Council meets, 5:30 p.m. online. (858) 454–1444. lajollatowncouncil.org/home Friday, May 14 • Kiwanis Club of La Jolla meets, 12:30 p.m. online.
La Jolla nurse Quinn Quackenbush is driven to provide better results for patients, and for that she landed two of UC San Diego Health’s Nurse of the Year awards.
If you missed the in-person chance to see pieces from La Jolla students and others at the San Diego Museum of Art during its biennial “Young Art” exhibit, you can still take a virtual tour.
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To better understand how human cells communicate with those from other animals and potentially ease the process of cultivating tissue and organs for human transplantation, scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla have taken the next step in research of chimeras — organisms that contain cells from two or more species.
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Scripps uses equipment known to be a favorite vector for attacks in 2020.
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On and off the field, collaboration is everything for La Jolla Country Day School lacrosse player Sophia DeJarnette.
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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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La Jolla resident Rayan Hourani writes that “over the years, excessive accumulated litter and garbage has been a worsening issue in La Jolla and especially on La Jolla Parkway, the main entrance corridor.”
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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. • Congregation Beth Israel presents its next Men’s Club forum, “A Conversation with Deputy Chief of Mission Eitan Weiss,” at 7 p.m.
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There’s a lot of hoarders in my family. Fortunately, I’m not one. Well, except for photos.
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Could the dormant UC San Diego Community Advisory Group be on the brink of revival?
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After years of planning, community reviews, a redesign of certain features and COVID-19-related delays, the Scripps Park restroom facility needs one more thing to stay on track for fall completion: a waiver of the summer construction moratorium.
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Business Spotlight: Even with strict social distancing policies and a rearranged layout, the La Jolla Open Aire Market still welcomes 115 unique vendors every Sunday, many of which have been with the market for decades.
Hoping to find quantitative data that can measure the impact of short-term rentals under the city of San Diego’s new ordinance, the La Jolla Community Planning Association will work with the Ocean Beach Planning Board on a set of metrics to submit to the city.
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After years of complaints being blown around about gas-powered leaf blowers, representatives of several local groups have begun meeting to explore forming a coalition to combat the noise and environmental effects.
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With four weeks of in-person learning completed and most students on campus four days a week following a 13-month pandemic-related closure, the five San Diego Unified School District schools that make up the La Jolla Cluster have reported a total of four cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus, as of May 7.
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Seven speakers from the La Jolla Country Day School community shared personal experiences related to “Agency, Resilience and Persistence,” the theme of the school’s inaugural TEDx event streamed live.
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With a UC San Diego expert forecasting flooding in La Jolla with nearly every high tide by the end of the century, San Diego City Councilman Joe LaCava said battling climate change, and specifically local sea-level rise, will take an approach combining “science, collaboration and grassroots advocacy.”
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The mayor vows to fully restore service within a year, but officials say staffing challenges prevent anything sooner.
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After being dark for six months, The Lot La Jolla’s movie theaters are lighted up once again — until show time, that is.
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For being a tiny street in the middle of Bird Rock, Moss Lane has gotten a lot of attention over the years.
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After four years on the San Diego City Council, I’ve returned to the world of innovation and entrepreneurship, and this week, here is what’s on my mind as my darling husband, Neil, takes time off to go fishing.
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The California Department of Public Health said it is monitoring the ransomware attack that severely impacted Scripps Health facilities throughout San Diego County, including in La Jolla, but has thus far determined that emergency procedures underway since May 1 have been adequate to ensure patients are safe.
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In a year in which high school sports are facing a lot of differences — a shorter season, a season in a different time of year, new safety precautions — one thing remains the same with the current water polo season: the crosstown rivalry between The Bishop’s School and La Jolla High School.
