The $4.6 million Mission Beach lifeguard tower
From jetty to San Fernando Place
Mike Madriaga 11 a.m., May 21
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The $4.6 million Mission Beach lifeguard tower
From jetty to San Fernando Place
On May 9, the old wooden South Mission Beach Lifeguard Station was demolished. “It didn’t take too much effort to bring it to the ground,” Dana Vanos said. The circa 1974 temporary installment was located ...
Birthplace of skateboarding – Encinitas and Carlsbad
Forget about Santa Monica
It started in 1974 at the Bahne surfboard manufacturing shop on Westlake Drive in Encinitas, and quickly spread to a street known as Black Hill in La Costa. Within a few years, skateboarding was a ...
A meeting in Fire Mountain about David Fischbach
Sober living homes plague Oceanside neighborhoods
Twenty homeowners met May 9 in a living room in the upscale Oceanside Fire Mountain neighborhood. They weren’t carrying pitchforks, but they were fuming, outraged that an aggressive entrepreneur with a dubious history was building ...
Point Loma caves cleaned out once more
“Man, please don’t call the news”
Three young men were rousted from a den along Sunset Cliffs Boulevard Tuesday morning after pictures of the elaborate cave surfaced on social media earlier in the week. Multiple reports have been made to the ...
Rancho Santa Fe Democrats hear Gaspar opponents
Olga Diaz, Terra Lawson-Remer, Jeff Griffith
The County Board of Supervisors campaign gloves were formally taken off on May 9 when the Rancho Santa Fe Democratic Club hosted the expected three challengers to Supervisor Kristin Gaspar’s 3rd District supervisorial seat. Gasper, ...
Mary's Donuts in Santee got a little too generous
Joel Scalzitti uses her name in Lakeside and El Cajon
Touted as a third location of the regionally popular Mary’s Donuts, a new storefront opened on El Cajon’s Main Street on April 13, near city and county offices. Owner Joel Scalzitti proclaimed in the East ...
Tijuana Chewbacca fans geek out
Peter Mayhew played the hairy sidekick of Han Solo.
On May 4 about 800 Star Wars fans rendezvoused on Avenida Revolución in Tijuana to geek out and pay homage to the actor that played the original Chewbacca. "Many of us Mexican fans lament the ...
Larry Flynt tries Oceanside
Closeness of Oceanside High and Ocean’s Eleven Casino may be roadblock
Q: What do you do if you want to open an adult business where it’s not permitted? A: If you’re Larry Flynt’s attorney you simply proclaim you are not an adult business and hope no ...
The 17th Street stolen bike economy
Bicycle parts from the corner of Imperial to K Street.
Within the last week, fashion-photographer Ron Morales and I rolled downtown to see if we could locate a stolen $1900 Raleigh iE e-bike. I drove down 17th Street and pulled over before it turns into ...
Suspect in Mom's murder helped her with VRBO in Ocean Beach
Steps away from the beach and pier
Homicide detectives and SWAT officers swooped into Ocean Beach Wednesday, May 1, after a woman’s body was found inside the garage of a rental property and a 36-year-old man, Daniel Chase McKibben, was seen running ...
Valley Center gopher snake lover gets a reaction
They flatten their heads and hiss like rattlesnakes
On April 30, Jessica Y. found a snake by her Valley Center house, picked it up, then snapped a selfie. Jessica, posted the photo on Facebook and captioned it: “Instead of killing gopher snakes: pick ...
