No action taken on Fletcher Cove center use policy
SOLANA BEACH — After nearly two years of discussion, countless hours of staff time, neighborhood meetings, public comments — one tearful — and nearly $32,000 for consultants and an environmental study, a proposal to allow private use of the recently renovated Fletcher Cove Community Center went nowhere at the June 12 meeting. When it was [...]
New hotel law to aid police investigations
SOLANA BEACH — Attempting to help the Sheriff’s Department in its crime-fighting efforts, council members voted 4-1 at the June 12 meeting to approve an ordinance requiring hotel and motel operators to standardize information collected from guests at registration. In 2009 a sheriff’s unit uncovered a teenage sex trafficking ring operating out of a local [...]
Del Mar Shores stairway project moves forward
SOLANA BEACH — With 70 percent of the project design complete, council members authorized staff at the June 12 meeting to seek construction bids to replace the beach access stairway at Del Mar Shores Terrace. The structure, a gateway to the city’s southern beaches, was shut down in November after an engineer concluded there was [...]
Sea Wolf brings feeling of ‘home’ to The Belly Up
SOLANA BEACH — Alex Brown Church, the man behind Sea Wolf, has come full circle — in more ways than one. After living in Montreal for three years, Church made his way back to California a few years ago. And the feeling of coming home defines his newest album, “Old World Romance” — his third [...]
Playwright seeks to tell story, not effect change
SOLANA BEACH — If the North Coast Repertory Theatre had had a curtain, playwright Melinda Lopez would have been a bundle of nerves before it went up. As it was, Lopez was still a bundle of nerves when the theater’s lights dimmed and the stage lights slowly surged on, revealing the world premiere of her [...]
Sharrows soon to make their mark in Solana Beach
SOLANA BEACH — Motorists traveling south along Coast Highway 101 in Solana Beach may soon notice — if they haven’t already — new markings that look like a bike with a roof over it. They’re called sharrows and they indicate lanes may be used simultaneously by motorists and bicyclists. The markings — a bike with [...]
Fun in the sun at the Fiesta del Sol
SOLANA BEACH — Music, food, action — it was all there during the 34th annual Fiesta del Sol last weekend. The two-day outdoor music festival at Fletcher Cove is a crowd favorite and helps to benefit the Solana Beach Chamber of Commerce.
City OKs changes to land-use plan
SOLANA BEACH — Despite objections from several bluff-top homeowners and an attorney representing them and about 2,000 others in a lawsuit against the city, council voted 4-1 at the May 22 meeting to approve amendments to a plan they adopted in February that will allow more control over development in Solana Beach. Resident and attorney [...]
Ceremony honors ‘unsung heroes’
SOLANA BEACH — Remembering “the true heroes of our nation and our community” on a “truly American holiday,” Mayor Mike Nichols dedicated the Memorial Day ceremony at La Colonia Community Park to “those who gave their lives to protect our country, our freedoms and our American way of life.”“These brave men and women gave everything [...]
Column: Changing the odds by changing schools
In the world of standardized student testing, Elisa Fregoso has won the Lottery. A respected principal, who has been involved with public education for two decades, Fregoso’s school last year scored a paltry 678 on the state Academic Performance Index that measures how much kids are learning. That’s 678 on a scale to 1,000, a [...]