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Rally to boot Point Loma recycling center
"She whacked my clerk and cracked her head open."
A rally on Saturday, February 10, will protest the recycling center behind Stump's Market in Loma Portal. When Prince Recycling opened up in 2014, there were protests then, too. It's the only recycling center within ...
Pies take patience
Is chicken pot pie with bacon cheating?
The only problem I have with dedicated pie restuarants is there are not enough of them. The recently opened Pie Joint aims to fix that around Point Loma's Midway District. Originally a farmers market stand, ...
Worries over monster eucalyptus in Loma Portal
Root removal from old trees a good idea?
Shelly Schwartlander has been living at the Point Loma Tennis Club since 1991. The complex, built in 1968, sits on 13 acres and has approximately 260 trees of many different species. But it’s the eucalyptus ...
Anybody seen an Indian ring-neck around Point Loma?
APB on Booberry the missing parrot
On April 19, Kristin Choi’s parrot flew away — but he’s not any parrot, he’s Booberry, an Indian ring-neck parrot, aka a rose-ringed parrot, a breed that is well known for their intelligence and speaking ...
So, this monkey walks into a grocery store...
Marmoset on the loose eventually gets returned to owner
On Wednesday evening (December 2), the folks at Barons Market on West Point Loma Boulevard had a special shopper wander into their store. According to the Facebook post, a marmoset "just ran into Barons and ...
How much food, and how long will it take? Answer: Sandwiches
Midnight chew
Attacking a snack like a cobra around midnight.
Loma Portal residents object to recycling operation
Store owner wants to close it
On July 1, James Prince opened a recycling collection center in the parking lot of Stump’s Family Marketplace, the independently owned grocery store at the corner of Voltaire and Worden streets in the Point Loma ...
Street-dumb phone stuck in the past
Consider this the formal goodbye to State Route 274
Motorists traveling northbound on 805 out of Mission Valley into Kearny Mesa may have recently noticed something covered up on the green freeway signs indicating the Balboa Avenue exit. Covered over in mismatched green is ...
But when it does rain in Southern California...
Storm-water pump system in disrepair, says city honcho
Daniel Orozco's job is maintaining the city's 15 storm-water pump stations. He recently testified before the city council's Environment Committee, saying that about two years ago, he determined a method for being notified if a ...
Just the right amount of wrong
Ed susses out and scarfs Desi’s crunchalicious bargain half-pounder.
Oh, man. This is one desolate little stretch of street. Lytton. Loma Portal. Quarter mile of traffic-crammed blight. Maybe it’s the half light. Whatever, I come to a closed-up, windowless, brick-red-painted concrete building with no ...
Carnivore's vegan spot
Native Foods Café makes at least one "mixed family" happy
It was the day before Mother’s Day and the kids and I wanted to give my wife a nice meal. She’s been a vegetarian for more than a year so I figured a steakhouse was ...
Brush fire on side of Nimitz Boulevard
Man and dog leave with police
Police officers and firefighters arrived on the west side of Nimitz Boulevard near West Point Loma Boulevard at around 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, April 30. A man was sitting on the side of the road ...
Loma Portal Gas Station Robbed
A suspect who robbed a Loma Portal gas station on Wednesday, November 14, at around 10:00 p.m. was still on the loose Thursday afternoon. The Shell gas station on the corner of West Point Loma ...
Apartment Thief Suspect Taken into Custody in Loma Portal
With guns drawn and bearing a search warrant, a task force of law-enforcement officials knocked on the door of a West Point Loma Boulevard apartment on the morning of August 15. Taken into custody at ...
Barnett Avenue Safer Going Southbound
At Barnett Avenue’s southern end, where it meets Pacific Highway, the two-lane road was recently narrowed to a single lane. Though it is now a traffic bottleneck, before the conversion, I witnessed a bicyclist ride ...
