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Over 5,000 volunteers expected for the I Love A Clean San Diego – Annual Creek To Bay Clean-Up An estimated 80 tons of trash at coastal and inland spots will be removed. Volunteers are still needed at many of the locations: Cardiff – San Elijo State Beach Cardiff State Beach Carlsbad – Frazee Beach Carlsbad [...]

The 29th Annual Encinitas April Street Fair  The next Encinitas Street Fair will be Saturday April 28th and Sunday April 29th from 9am-5pm. It will be on South Coast Hwy 101 between D and J Streets – Parking is tough! There will be 450 unique food, arts and crafts vendors, five live music stages, children’s rides, and the Beer [...]

First the summary – Don’t play or sit near the base of the bluffs along the coast. It is dangerous – and you already know this. The bluffs, for the most part are just compacted bluff sand waiting to fall and become loose beach sand. Stay away for the bluff base. Rebecca Kowalczyk, 30, was [...]

There’s talk of a new Coaster rail stop in this fair city? Do we need one? Mayor Jerome Stocks certainly thinks we do and he’s doing all he can to make sure that we get one. Problem is that there just ain’t enough parking spaces at the Vulcan Drive station, and no place to provide more, so [...]

It may have stormed all night, or for days, and now the surf looks epic. Not only that, the water looks clean. You decide to take your surfboard out for a session, or let your dog play in the water or (gasp) go for a swim. Well, it may look epic and clean, but there [...]

Paris has the Eiffel Tower, Arizona has the Grand Canyon, Cardiff has the Cardiff Kook. Encinitas has the Surfing Madonna, Beacon’s Beach had the shark and Swami’s has the Easter Island Head (now one year old). The replica of an Easter Island head was last year as reported by the San Diego Union Trib. The [...]

So, when will the new Walmart in Encinitas open? It looks like this summer. Locals either love it or hate it. Regardless, parking is going to be a massive problem. The North County Times reports, “Part of that renovation work involves reducing the current building’s square footage in order to meet city parking space requirements. [...]

Quail Gardens Drive will change the speed limit to 40 mph in mid-April. “We’re writing the work orders to have (the signs) changed out right now,” city traffic engineer Rob Blough said Thursday. The Encinitas City Council approved the proposal to raise Quail Gardens Drive’s speed limit from 35 to 40 mph (not that anyone was [...]

We Have A Lost In The Desert Madonna After seeking legal advice from the state attorney general’s office, the State Parks system has decided not to allow the famed “Surfing Madonna” mosaic to be displayed on state-owned land near Moonlight Beach. “Their opinion was very clear, and that opinion was that it would violate the [...]