June 24 — Vessel on the rock at Islandia Point. 24Sam responds and impounds vessel. No one around to claim it or saw what occurred. — Vehicle in the water at North Pac Passage. Guardian, …
July 4, 2016
News & Stories
Tread lightly, but not on baby seals
Happy Ives of July
I want to write about an American composer for the Fourth of July, but I’m tired of the same ol’ group of characters — Bernstein, Copland, Gershwin, Barber. Let’s go with Charles Ives and the …
July 4, 2016
Gripes over Clairemont's new bike-lane barriers
On May 24, the city installed white plastic barriers along the bike lane on one side of Balboa Avenue (east on Clairemont Drive heading toward Genesee Avenue). Within a few days, the barriers started getting …
July 4, 2016
News from San Diego's smallest beer scene
Julian's oldest operating brewery will be without a tasting room for a few months. Pizza Port and Port Brewing/Lost Abbey founders Vince and Gina Marsaglia have closed the Bailey BBQ, the mountain town's longtime pit-barbecue …
July 4, 2016
La Mesa's Oktoberfest becomes different animal
The La Mesa City Council on June 28 voted unanimously to stage Oktoberfest, a rebranded three-day event that will start September 30 and be managed by EventWerks, LLC. EventWerks’ website shows Oktoberfests in Orange County, …
July 4, 2016
Has pool, does travel
Kiki Ayala watched her five-year-old foster son splash around in the roughly constructed above-ground swimming pool outside the Robert Egger Sr. Recreation Center last week. San Diego's Department of Park and Recreation hauls around and …
July 4, 2016
San Diego, war town
More Treacherous Than Vietnam "Several weeks ago, there was a story about a SEAL that supposedly fell out of a helicopter. His name was Neil Roberts. The helicopter took a few hits. He flipped out …
July 4, 2016