Local News
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Our Readers Write: La Jollans speak out about local issues and concerns
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...
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Opinion: What are they thinking? Re: SB 50 and SB 330; We've got to protect the coastal 30-foot height limit
Opinion / Guest Commentary / Our Readers Write: What were the authors of Senate Bill 50 and Senate Bill 330 thinking when they unilaterally decided to invalidate the rights of the voters of San Diego County when they drafted a bill that suspends San Diego's coastal 30-foot height limitation? These...
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La Jolla Sports Club: Fitness finds all under one roof
BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT: Throw a stone anywhere in The Village and you're bound to hit a workout place — Pilates, yoga, boxing, circuit training, weightlifting, aerobics — the list goes on and on. What makes La Jolla Sports Club stand out from the others is that it offers, everything in one place. The...
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Warwick's honors St. Jordi's Day and Independent Bookstore Day with music, food, fun
BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT: Join Warwick's Bookstore in La Jolla for a celebration of romance and literature this month! On Saturday, April 27 Warwick's will host their fourth annual Saint Jordi's Day Festival, which combines this historic cultural event with Independent Bookstore Day. Celebrated mainly...
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LA JOLLA NEWS NUGGETS
La Jolla cleans up nice for Earth Day Duke’s La Jolla and Kopari Beauty co-sponsored a La Jolla clean-up to celebrate Earth Day, Monday, April 22. A crowd of 30 (including employees of both businesses, family members and friends) met at Duke’s at 5:30 p.m., grabbed 20 plastic buckets and split...
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La Jolla Light Crime and Public-Safety News: April 25
Possibly armed man threatens La Jolla family Police arrested a 44-year-old man for making threats against a Beach-Barber Tract family, at 6:27 p.m. March 31. Police report the man was sleeping in bushes directly in front of the victim’s house on the 6600 block of La Jolla Blvd. After the resident...
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MAPPING SUCCESS: Ruderman goes B-I-G with new La Jolla storefront
Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps is moving on up. From an alley behind D.G. Wills Books, this specialty dealer will soon relocate to an elegant, street-front location a short walk from the beach at 7407 La Jolla Blvd. “After 20 years of being well hidden in two quiet locations, there are so...
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LA JOLLA NEWS NUGGETS
City Parks Plan meeting slated for April 23 The City of San Diego’s Parks Master Plan is now in year two of the three-year planning effort to improve City parks. Additional visioning meetings have been scheduled. None are in La Jolla, but the next one is 4 p.m. Tuesday, April 23 at the Balboa Park...
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THIRD ACT: La Jolla retirement community’s talent show means everything to residents
Jerry Klipp, 97, inched his red walker up to the microphone set up in Casa de Manana’s lower lounge and began singing a 1931 country hit by Bud and Joe Billings. Like a third of the La Jolla retirement community’s residents, Klipp was alive when it was released. Through a garden filled with roses,...
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Housing bills meeting held in La Jolla, legal opinion offered
Two Senate Bills that have gotten local attention were discussed at a special – albeit tepidly attended – meeting April 18 at REBA La Jolla. James LaMattery, who has been making the rounds to local community planning groups, was in attendance. As was attorney Cory Briggs.
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Opinion: La Jollan shares tale of being scammed $3,000: 'Was I confused, hypnotized or just victimized?'
Opinion / Guest Commentary / Our Readers Write: Editor's Note: While La Jolla Light knows the name and address of this writer, we've agreed to withhold the information to protect her safety and privacy. She wishes her story told as a caution to others, particularly other senior citizens and wrote...
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Our Readers Write: La Jollans speak out about housing bill, trimming palm trees, lack of parking, cannabis billboards, crumbling streets, The Conrad, vaccines and more local topics
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...
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Opinion: Next Gen/Metroplex commercial jet noise update for La Jolla and coastal San Diego
Opinion / Guest Commentary / Our Readers Write: Here's the latest news addressing the commercial jet noise associated with the FAA's NextGen Metroplex system, the impact studies commissioned by the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority (SDCRAA) and the recently proposed $3 billion airport...
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New Business Roundup: Here’s what’s new on Girard Ave. and in La Jolla Shores
The Girard Avenue business scene is growing, with several new retailers opening shop in recent weeks. There are also changes underway in the La Jolla Shores business community. Charleston Shoe Company Charleston Shoe Company opened April 13 at 7852 Girard Ave., to provide stylish, feminine and...
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Next school year bell to ring at 8:35 a.m.: La Jolla High, Muirlands leaders win later start time
The April 18 La Jolla Cluster Association meeting was buzzing with excitement, smiles and toasts — not just because the end of the school year is near — but because the long-fought battle for a later school start time (aka “healthy start”) was won. The day before the meeting, Muirlands Middle School...
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BAPTISM BY GUNFIRE: Program gives public quasi-realistic taste of San Diego Police work
Inside SDPD is a free experience designed to let the public walk in a police officer’s shoes, giving them instruction in traffic stops, S.W.A.T. techniques, force-option simulation, working with K-9 officers and Taser firing.
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Companion unit rules explored at DPR meeting
Brian Will will chair the La Jolla Development Permit Review (DPR) committee for another year. Will, who took over from former chair Mike Costello last year, was elected unanimously by the six DPR trustees attending the community group’s April 16 meeting at the La Jolla Rec Center. (The chair only...
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La Jolla Shores permitters vote down Sugarman Drive project: Project would ‘change the character of the neighborhood dramatically’
When the Sugarman House project returned to the La Jolla Shores Permit Review Committee (PRC) meeting April 15 at La Jolla Rec Center — this time with only a handful of residents in attendance rather than a roomful — a central issue seemed to be the house’s second story: How it had been reduced...
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La Jolla merchants advised on when and how to hire help
Twenty La Jolla Village Merchants Association (LJVMA) members attended the community group’s third Business4Breakfast event on April 16 at a theater in The LOT. The hour-long workshop — conducted by Julie Ethan, CEO of Ethan Advisors — was aimed at helping small businesses know when and how they...
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San Diego Mayor issues FY 2020 proposed budget, funds La Jolla's Scripps Park Pavilion project
The Scripps Park Pavilion leads the way in terms of La Jolla projects to be funded in San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer’s Fiscal Year 2020 proposed budget.
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La Jolla Crime and Public-Safety News: April 18 — Sewage spill closes Windansea beach; Phone scam hits La Jolla resident; Teen hurt in scooter accident
Sewage spill closes Windansea beach A section of the beach near Windansea was closed for more than 48 hours from Friday morning (April 12) to Sunday afternoon (April 14) due to a 130-gallon sewage spill from a local sewer line. The San Diego County Department of Environmental Health announced on...
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La Jolla watercolor artist wins regional contest
Mettler’s “Seated No. 6” was selected Best of Show at the upcoming WFWS annual exhibition, held once every 10 years in San Diego. This year, it will be held and displayed in the month of May at the San Diego Watercolor Society, 2825 Dewey Road in Liberty Station.
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Capt. Williams talks Neighborhood Policing Division, homelessness at La Jolla Kiwanis meeting
When San Diego Police Department Northern Division Captain Tina Williams spoke before the Kiwanis Club of La Jolla on April 12 at the Community Center, she covered a variety of topics. These included how Northern Division is different from the broader department; whether the intersection of Nautilus...
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Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center opens with some pomp, much circumstance in La Jolla
REVIEW: The La Jolla Music Society’s new $82 million performing arts center opened April 5, with a star-studded lineup and very big expectations. Hello, Conrad! Goodbye, Sherwood! Two years and 17 days after the La Jolla Music Society held its final concert at the now-defunct Sherwood Auditorium,...
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Enjoya La Jolla, the street fair merchants are ready to deploy-a
At La Jolla Village Merchants Association’s (LJVMA) April 10 meeting at the Riford Library, executive director Jodi Rudick referred to her group’s recent Concours d’Elegance merchant event, Brake in the Village, as “a dress rehearsal” for Enjoya La Jolla. The street festival is slated to launch...
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La Jolla Parks & Beaches board hears plan to renovate ‘scruffy’ Scripps Park picnic area
After a less-than-successful attempt at creating a Marine Memorial Mall at the foot of Marine Street, La Jolla resident and architect Erik Holtsmark returned to the La Jolla Parks & Beaches (LJP&B) advisory group with plans for another seaside project — this time for Scripps Park. The plan, he...
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La Jolla students top County Science Fair: Three All Hallows Academy selected to compete at State level
By bringing in preexisting interests and creating science experiments around them, three students placed first in their fields at the San Diego County Science and Engineering Fair and proceed to the California Science and Engineering Fair
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LA JOLLA NEWS NUGGETS
Homelessness forum April 11 at Town Council meeting April’s La Jolla Town Council (LJTC) meeting will be dedicated to a forum on homelessness in light of the repeal of the Transient Occupancy Vehicle ordinance, which now legalizes sleeping in cars and small motor homes on any City street. Scheduled...
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How under-vaccinated are La Jolla's public schools? Rising medical exemptions beg that question; 28 students were medically excused
In 2015, California outlawed non-medical vaccine exemptions for school entry. At the time, only 90.4 percent of kindergartners in our state’s public schools were fully immunized. The law (SB 277) seems to have worked, since 95.1 percent of California kindergartners had all their required shots...
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La Jolla Crime and Public-Safety News: March 27 - Murder solved after 40 years; 3 assaults reported last week; Liquor store robbed; Man sues city and scooter-maker over crash
La Jolla murder solved after 40 years The San Diego Police Department’s Cold Case Unit solved a murder that took place in La Jolla 40 years ago by partnering with the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office Cold Case Unit and the FBI’s Investigative Genealogy Team, and using public access genealogical...
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La Jolla Library Friends group welcomes new board members: Branch manager Briley leaves for Coronado post
Change is in the air at the La Jolla Library this year: Branch manager Shaun Briley has been hired as the City of Coronado’s new Library Director; the Friends of La Jolla Library had its annual meeting and election; and celebrations are in the works for the upcoming 120th anniversary this summer
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All Systems Go? San Diego Mayor’s 2020 budget to include La Jolla Maintenance Assessment District (MAD)
When San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer issues his proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2020, assessments for the La Jolla Maintenance Assessment District (MAD) are reportedly going to be in it. “Along with all City of San Diego MADs (there are currently 55 with their boundaries listed at bit.ly/citymadmaps)...
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Roofs raised, literally and figuratively, at La Jolla developer meeting
Four projects received permit recommendations from the La Jolla Development Permit Review (DPR) committee at its March 19 meeting. A uncomfortably contentious fifth project, which returned to DPR for the fourth time and was greeted by protests from angry neighbors, resulted in a no-vote. Golba’s...
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SULTAN OF SWAY: La Jolla student named San Diego County debate champ
Tim Kelly, a junior at The Bishop’s School, has been named debater of the year by the San Diego/Imperial Valley Speech League. Kelly, 16, is the first champion from a La Jolla high school in at least 20 years. “Tim is particularly good at seeing both sides of an issue and being persuasive on both...
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La Jolla couple ‘Top Guns’ it through Naval Air Force program
For La Jolla residents Tony and Rene Gild, the start of their recent Naval Air Forces Distinguished Visitor Embark trip sounds like a heart-racing scene from a movie. They describe being strapped via four sets of belts to the inside of a Navy jet, with two sets of earplugs, a helmet and goggles,...
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La Jolla Farms residents see red at traffic meeting
In the latest salvo of a 30-year battle, a City official has recommended removing some of the red-striped curbs on the east side of La Jolla Farms Road near Blackgold Road — enough to create 11 new parking spots. (In the area, both the east and west sides are red-striped.) This did not sit well...
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La Jolla High School musician wins ‘Artistic Achievement’ award
La Jolla High School horn player Katherine Perrine is the 2019 San Diego Unified School District’s Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA) Foundation Spotlight Award winner for Artistic Achievement. She was honored at a special presentation March 13
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Meet the Candidates: Will Moore hopes to help San Diego ‘grow up’ in City Council run
“It’s time for the City of San Diego to grow up a little bit,” opined Carmel Valley lawyer, Democrat and District 1 City Council candidate Will Moore. “We need to plan out the growth of this City over the next couple of decades and treat the City like the home of 2 million, which it is, rather...
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History of the Bungalow in La Jolla: Did you know these seasonal homes got their start at the foot of the Himalayas in the 1800s?
As part of this year’s La Jolla Landmarks Week, the La Jolla Historical Society hosted architectural historian Diane Kane with a presentation on the California-style bungalow, which has become an iconic local treasure. While many associate construction of these houses with the 1920s, Kane told...
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Water Dept. updates City of San Diego on its reform policies after spiked water bills: ‘We developed Standard Operating Procedures that we did not have before.’
Just over a year after the San Diego Public Utilities Department (PUD) held a meeting in La Jolla to talk with residents about implausible spikes in their water bills, PUD provided the City Council’s Audit Committee with a “progress report” on its activities to ameliorate the concerns. The morning...
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Our Readers Write: La Jollans voice their opinions about cannabis billboards, traffic, off-leash dogs, lack of parking, canceling World History class, Children's Pool closure for seals, and more local topics
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...
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La Jolla merchants 'explore' China; Experts share tourism tips at business breakfast
The second Business4Breakfast staged by the restructured La Jolla Village Merchants Association (LJVMA) March 19 shined a spotlight on Chinese tourism in San Diego, advising La Jolla merchants how to tap into this huge, but largely unnoticed, market opportunity. Gathered in a banquet room at the...
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A Woman of Distinction: La Jollan Linda Tu honored for civic cultural work
La Jolla resident Linda Tu is one of 17 women from across San Diego that were honored as 2019 Women of Distinction by 78th Assembly member Todd Gloria, at the Women’s Museum of California in Liberty Station on March 20. The 78th Assembly includes San Diego County and surrounding cities
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The Conrad Update: CLIMBING TREES
Workers from DPR Construction hoist the first of three olive trees by crane over the frontage of the nearly completed Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center on Monday, March 18. The 16-foot-tall trees — later planted in the building’s courtyard — were too wide to fit through the street-level entrance....
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LA JOLLA NEWS NUGGETS
Eyesore cottages likely to be restored soon Restoration on the Red Roost and Red Rest cottages — located at 1187 and 1179 Coast Blvd. — is probably less than a year from starting. “I know people are curious and I don’t want everyone’s hopes to get high,” said the architect charged with handling...
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La Jolla Cluster Association: Schools proceed with Social Emotional Learning projects
At the start of the 2018-2019 school year, the La Jolla Cluster Association decided to focus on “social intelligence,” a style of social emotional learning intended give students the chance to develop their social consciences and understand emotional wellbeing for themselves and others. At the...
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‘Hulk’ house for Sugarman Drive concerns neighbors, La Jolla Shores permitters
Around 10 La Jolla Heights-area residents turned out at the La Jolla Shores Permit Review Committee (PRC) meeting March 18 at La Jolla Rec Center to voice concerns over what are some are calling an “Incredible Hulk” of a house that is planned.
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Opinion: Save 9th Grade History at La Jolla High School
Opinion / Guest Commentary / Our Readers Write: Academic standards, strong curriculum and sustained enrollment at La Jolla High School are endangered and eroding. Last month, I read a small notice in the flood of La Jolla High's online school bulletins announcing that 9th Grade World History would...
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CLOSING THE BOOK: Wills ends St. Patrick's Day reading in style
Dennis Wills staged his 40th and final St. Patrick’s Day Open Reading of Poetry and Prose on Sunday, March 17 at D.G. Wills Books. Attracting 200 people — about 40 of whom read Irish literature passages for three-to-seven minutes each — the event ran from 4 to 8 p.m., three hours earlier than usual...
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City preserves historic honor for Wolfsheimer-Stutz home
The San Diego City Council narrowly voted March 18 to uphold the historic designation of the Abbe Wolfsheimer-Stutz house at 6200 Avenida Cresta in the Lower Hermosa area of La Jolla. The San Diego Historical Resources Board (HRB) designated the house historic in July 2018 under Criterion B for...