Courts and all San Diego city, county and state offices will be closed Monday in observance of Memorial Day.
Libraries and recreation centers in San Diego will be closed, but pools will be open from noon to 4 p.m. The Torrey Pines, Balboa Park and Mission Bay golf courses will be open, but holiday rates will apply.
An Assembly committee Friday advanced a bill — known as Chelsea’s Law after slain Poway teenager Chelsea King — that would toughen penalties against sexually violent criminals.
The action by the Appropriations Committee clears the way for a vote by the full Assembly sometime next week, according to Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher, R-San Diego, who authored the legislation.
About 30,000 juvenile white sea bass were recently released into netted pens in San Diego Bay as part of an effort to increase the population off California, the Port of San Diego announced Friday.
The fish were put in the grow-out facilities in the bay near the Grape Street Pier at the corner of Hawthorn and North Harbor Drive, and once they grow to 12 inches they will be released into the ocean, according to the port.
Employees to increase contributions to CalPERS
The Solana Beach City Council on May 26 announced a 3-year memorandum of understanding with its employee association that calls for salary freezes, increased employee-made pension contributions and reduced retirement benefits for those hired after July 1.
Tuesday is the deadline for San Diego County residents to request an absentee ballot for the June 8 primary election.
By state law, applications for a mail-in ballot must be received by the Registrar of Voters no later than 5 p.m. Tuesday, said Registrar of Voters Deborah Seiler.
A ceremony at UCSD Student Veterans Appreciation Ceremony this week acknowledged the dedication and contributions newly admitted and current student veterans have made to the United States military services.
The event will open with a speech from Justice Castaneda, former president of the UCSD Student Veterans Organization, and Del Mar resident and Marine Corps veteran Arthur Lipper III, who is chairman of British Far East Holdings Ltd..
Guests included UC San Diego staff, student veterans and their families. UCSD is ranked among the top 15 percent of the nation’s military-friendly schools by G. I. Jobs magazine.
Prosecutors have yet to decide whether to file charges against a Lakewood man who allegedly caused a non-injury hit-and-run crash on Interstate 5 in Encinitas three weeks ago, then led authorities on a brief chase.
Paul Richard Kennedy, 57, was driving erratically and passing traffic on the right-hand shoulder of the freeway when his northbound 1988 Lincoln Town Car struck the back end of a 2009 Subaru Outback near Manchester Avenue about 6 p.m. on May 4, according to the California Highway Patrol.
A roughly 1-acre fire charred a Sorrento Valley hillside west of Interstate 5 before dawn Friday, but was doused before it could threaten homes at the top.
Passing motorists reported seeing flames north of the I-5 split at Interstate 805 about 3:20 a.m.
Prop. J imposes tax burden
In response to Mr. Emerson’s opinion column of May 14: Is Proposition J creating a new tax a novel idea? No. The Del Mar City budget, in fact, is balanced, and the city actually maintains a budget reserve.
Prop. J is exactly a tax on homeowners and residents. Prop. J will require residents who rent out a cottage, or room in their home, even for only a week, to get a business permit, report rental income to the city, collect and pay a new 11.5 percent tax, and be subject to audit. Of course, this tax has to come out of rental income.
By Carl Hilliard
Member, Del Mar City Council and North County Transit District
Helen and Richard read into my earlier response that I said there is “no connection” between the temporary (train) platform and the permanent one. Actually, I wrote that the two are different issues.
Quite simply, the temporary one is doable now; the permanent platform is years off. That’s the prevailing wisdom and collective expertise of the agencies involved, which includes SANDAG, NCTD and the 22nd District Agricultural Association, or Fair Board, as it is often referred to. The Del Mar Thoroughbred Club does indeed have a financial interest in increasing the handle and on-track attendance, but it’s not as “very, very” financially well-situated, as Helen and Richard state, to fund this mega-million-dollar project on its own.
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