Best Reader stories of the late 1980s, part 2
Trees of Balboa Park, D.A. Ed Miller, tough USDA inspector at the border, Cuban ex-pats, short people, Oceanside gay murders, our forests of kelp
8:30 a.m., June 24
Kensington News and Stories
Oh, say, can you play the better "Star Spangled Banner"?
Kensington music man says inferior version of anthem plays at Olympics
Former Kensington resident Jason DeBord, a 1988 graduate of San Diego’s O’Farrell High School for the Creative and Performing Arts, did a 17-year stint on Broadway as a conductor, arranger, and musician. According to DeBord, ...
Kensington Brewing fills up fast
"I’m surprised, even on a Tuesday night, how many people are in here."
Five years after it quietly launched in Grantville, Kensington Brewing Company has a tasting-room presence in the neighborhood it's named for. In October, the nanobrewery began serving beer within the former site of Kensington Video, ...
Craft beer seeps into new neighborhoods
Benchmark, Culture, Eppig, Kensington carve out territories
The growing trend among beer companies to open satellite taprooms in commercial districts is bringing a craft-brewery presence to neighborhoods that didn't previously haven't one. There were 20 off-site tasting rooms at the beginning of ...
Ugly cyclist-car encounter in Kensington
GoPro video shows up on local Reddit
A bicyclist who GoPro'ed herself as she followed a car, argued with the driver and then hit or kicked the rear view mirror lit up Reddit yesterday by posting the video of the encounter. The ...
At last, an easy way to get to Mission Valley
Safer for a bike than Fairmount Ave. or Texas St.
“The bikeway is almost done” said Miguel, as he walked out by the freeway exit. On June 29, Miguel walked up the State Route 15 Commuter Bikeway (northbound) towards Adams Avenue. “The pavement, walls and ...
Bees swarm Kensington
"Seek shelter immediately inside a car or building."
“[I] drove right through the [bee] swarm with the windows rolled down,” said Mike Glosson, from Normal Heights.” Glosson, 54, who is a systems analyst, estimated that there was a “swarm of thousands of bees” ...
Drone flies low over Kensington and Channel 39 comes knocking
Neighbors on Nextdoor warn that downing a drone is a federal offense
“Tonight (April 5) I had a man [reporter] … actually come to my door from KNSD regarding my (drone flyover) comments on Nextdoor,” said Suzanne from Kensington, “completely uninvited and unannounced, and while he was ...
Kensington bicyclist ticketed for not stopping at Meade and 39th
No Idaho stops in Calif. yet
“The policeman told me, ‘You are (riding) a bike and need to follow the rules of the road, and you did not stop at this four-way,'” said Anna Grace Carter. She received a ticket that ...
Kensington controversy
Readers chime in on last week's cover story
Outstanding Example of San Diego The January 12 article, “Kensington: The Only Real Neighborhood in San Diego” is an outstanding example — dynamic, well-researched, as well as effective writing style — of San Diego. It’s ...
Kensington: the only real neighborhood in San Diego
Where a guy can paint his house the color of a taco stand.
Dino the dachshund and a Chihuahua/Brittany spaniel mix named Olivia walk through Kensington on a cool, clear afternoon. Behind them ambles Peter LaMontia. The trio head for Village Vino. Every one of Kensington’s restaurants features ...
Happy Ron Hill's happy hips
San Diego singer/songwriter finds new life with a new hip
“I’ve lived most of my life with extreme tension and pain in my body due to the lack of a hip socket on my left side,” says singer-songwriter Happy Ron Hill. “Sitting up would make ...
Park-starved residents locked out of school playgrounds
"Responsibility for opening seems unclear and too often forgotten."
At least three of San Diego's joint-use playground parks have limited or eliminated public access to playgrounds in North Park, Normal Heights, and Kensington, and no one knows who is responsible. After three days of ...
The salads here are tasty
“You like it? It was good?”
It had been years since I’d been to the Pappalecco in Little Italy, so my expectations were neutral when I walked into their most recent location in Kensington. The first thing I noticed was how ...
