PhotosUCSD’s big bang-bang theory
San Diego police testing gunshot detection on campus
Matt Potter 5 p.m., June 28
Liz Swain
Liz Swain has spent much of her life near the San Diego/La Mesa border, living in San Carlos or La Mesa. A former newspaper reporter, Liz's assignments included covering local government and community groups like town councils, reporting on crime, and writing features and columns. She's delighted to do that again by writing Reader Neighborhood News about La Mesa and the Navajo neighborhoods of San Carlos, Allied Gardens (where Liz also lived), Del Cerro, and Grantville.
Articles by Liz Swain
Developers of Little Flower apartments tussle with La Mesa neighbors
Parking is the sticking point
The La Mesa Planning Commission on June 7 was scheduled to consider approving a special permit for Silvergate Development’s conversion of Little Flower Haven, a Catholic retirement home that closed in 2015, into a 130-unit ...
Whither La Mesa's old police station, the farmers market?
City council works deal with SDG&E, water authority
The La Mesa police station at 8085 University Avenue opened in 2012, and it’s been five years since the old station located at 8181 Allison Avenue was demolished. The sight of fencing and equipment on ...
Weird crimes so far this year in La Mesa
The hatchet, the drug dealer, and two staged robberies
According to La Mesa police chief Walt Vasquez’s quarterly operations report for the first three months of 2017, the city’s one homicide was related to a 1996 incident where a man attacked his mother with ...
Move over burger place, coffee place coming in
Sixties-era Jack in the Box building not considered historical
When construction started in September 2016 in the Village Shopping Center parking lot east of the Jack in the Box, people were curious about what was coming to the center located at the northwest corner ...
Historic elderly home to become apartments
Developer to convert Little Flower Haven in La Mesa
Little Flower Haven, the Catholic nonprofit home for the elderly located at 8585 La Mesa Boulevard, closed on June 30, 2015. The proposed plan for the 4.09-acre site is Little Flower Apartments, a 130-unit complex ...
La Mesa opens for pot business
Shop applicants cough up the fees as illegal dispensaries close
Today (February 6), the City of La Mesa accepted applications — and a nonrefundable $1200 initial fee — from people seeking a conditional use permit to open a medical marijuana dispensary, cultivation business, or to ...
Tried taking Highway 94 east off the 125 south lately?
Caltrans won’t clean up the mess
High-priority project at the 125/94 interchange never gets done.
New chapter on San Carlos Library expansion
Redesign includes columns and removal of cop storefront
While the architect and building size remain the same, the updated plan for the new 25,000-square-foot San Carlos branch library is now one story instead of two. The 8200-square-foot branch at 7265 Jackson Drive opened ...
Electrified fence for Adobe Falls — not happening
SDSU students seek solutions to prevent trespassing
Adobe Falls is a class project for the 64 San Diego State University graduate students in professor Eric Frost’s Homeland Security 602 class. Students are working on solutions to issues that include trespassing on land ...
