Encinitas
Winds, fire threat, prompt trail closures in Encinitas
Encinitas is temporarily closing some popular trails in the wake of high wind and fire dangers over the next few days. Santa Ana conditions, which...
City Council voices support for ‘Dreamers’
ENCINITAS — The Encinitas City Council unanimously threw its support behind the growing movement to urge Congress to act on behalf of hundreds of thousands...
Mayor’s Minute: Winding down 2017 and looking ahead to 2018
As 2017 heads toward a close, your city and elected officials are busy winding up several important projects. On Housing I’m headed to Sacramento with...
Encinitas puts $500,000 toward pension liability
ENCINITAS — Encinitas officials voted Nov. 29 to put $500,000 of a nearly $11 million budget surplus toward its unfunded pension costs. The City Council’s...
$102 million effort aims to restore lagoon
ENCINITAS — For Doug Gibson, the executive director of the San Elijo Lagoon Ecological Reserve, a Nov. 29 event was more than two decades in the...
Encinitas girl brings back ‘Christmas Pony’ for Ronald McDonald House
ENCINITAS — On the surface, Avila Colanter seems like your average 11-year-old girl. She loves drawing, writing, hanging out with her pets and her friends,...
Revised Cardiff plans seen as compromise
ENCINITAS — Cardiff School District recently unveiled a redesigned concept for its overhaul of Cardiff Elementary School’s campus that district officials called a “positive compromise”...
City to install new stretch of sidewalk on 101
ENCINITAS — Sidewalks are coming to one of the last portions of Coast Highway 101 in downtown Encinitas without them. The City Council voted unanimously...
Wagon Circle celebrates first year, looks ahead to 2018
ENCINITAS — It has been a year since Lisa Nava and a group of her friends met the Sunday after the 2016 presidential election to...
Getting Thanksgiving off to running start
ENCINITAS — Thanksgiving often brings to mind massive amounts of food and time spent with family — holiday practices that have existed for generations. However,...
Conservancy adds to land holdings near San Elijo Lagoon
ENCINITAS — The San Elijo Lagoon Conservancy has bought 77 acres of scrubby canyon that adjoins residential neighborhoods near Cardiff and the nearly 1,000-acre San...
Calica sentencing delayed
SOLANA BEACH — A man who admitted to molesting a 12-year-old Earl Warren Middle School student will be sentenced Dec. 18. Jeff Calica was arrested in...
Vandal targets vehicles illegally parked at fair
ENCINITAS — Jassyn Verdult said she was attending the Encinitas Street Fair the afternoon of Nov. 19 and parked her car in what she thought was...
Encinitas officially makes switch to district elections
ENCINITAS — Encinitas City Council is slated to host its first district election in November 2018, but two council members want the public to vote...