Ah, dear reader, let us weave a tale of holiday cheer, as though by the pen of Dickens himself, capturing the festive spirit that stirs the hearts of North County! Picture if you will, a panorama of joy and delight, wherein every corner bursts with the enchantments of the season, inviting families and friends to partake in yuletide merriment. Carlsbad: A Tapestry of Cheer Through…
The Escondido City Council, in its infinite suburban wisdom, gave the green light to bulldoze two old restaurant shells—one with whispers of history clinging to its bones—so four shiny new drive-thrus can spring up along the city’s arterial veins. Progress, they called it, at their Nov. 20 meeting. Unanimous nods all around. One of the doomed is the former DiCicco’s Italian Restaurant & Pizzeria, sitting…
The scientists at UC San Diego were jubilant, as jubilant as scientists could be when awarded 10 Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) grants by the Department of Defense. Nine of these lucky researchers hailed from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, a place where the ocean was studied with the same reverence one might give to a long and difficult novel. It was the second year…