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With a sharply reduced water supply, tomatoes and eggplant, peppers and basil must somehow compete with the demands of laundry, bathing and dishwashing. more>>
After 37 years in downtown Del Mar, the Hair Nursery’s “lady barber in the window” is moving to Solana Beach. Unable to find a suitable space to rent in Del Mar, Faris set up her barber’s chair at 216 Cedros Ave., across from the Belly Up, as of June 1. The new name is Cedros Hair Design, Cuts for Men. more>>
Opting for a radical reinvention of the downtown business district, The City Council is now proposing to zone the properties along Camino Del Mar for agricultural use. more>>
Recently I stood on a sandy-red boulder in Coyote Canyon, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, impressed by the fact that sediments of this southern California landscape date back over five hundred million years. more>>
The smell of ink fills the back rooms ... pervasive, unmistakable. “Still,” Dave Preston assures me, “not one of Del Mar Blue’s 18 employees ever thinks about it. In fact, until we stopped reproducing blueprints by the traditional method, the dominant odor was of ammonia. And even that was forgettable.” more>>
Enjoying
the Wetlands: the
San Dieguito Lagoon
Build,
Sit, Read If ever you are met face to face with a boa constrictor, the children’s section of the Del Mar Library is NOT where you want to be. I’m not talking about on the pages of Saint-Exupery’s, The Little Prince; I’m talking about live from the Reptile Guy’s cage during a recent program at the Del Mar Library. Del
Mar’s
Elitism: It ain’t
necessarily so!
Every year starting in about October, I feel this overwhelming sense of dread over the impending holidays, the imminent onslaught of “stuff”, the million little pieces destined to co-mingle. Step one: Purge. more>>
Summer is over and Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte, and Miranda left their summer digs in Del Mar. The girls had settled down into monogamous relationships--married with children. But, not unexpectedly given their history of rather open relationships, rumors abound about their escapades over the summer, and life in general at the Mud Hut condo complex on Grand Avenue. more>>
City
Council Candidates
Respond to Our Questions For the first time in our City’s history, the biennial race for City Council seats is uncontested. Three candidates, including one returning incumbent, are running for three open seats. Even though each of the three candidates are certain victors (barring a successful write-in candidate), California’s election laws require the vote to be conducted on these three candidates because there are other city measures on the ballot. more>>
Labor
of Love on Stratford
Court The house at 13th and Stratford Court is home to many of Carl’s happiest memories. It’s the home his grandfather bought in 1928. The home his mother grew up in. And the home where Carl spent much of his youth, visiting his grandparents. more>>
Shores
Site Update: New Non-Profit
to Aid Purchase The Campaign for Del Mar Shores is moving ahead to reach its goals to enhance the beauty, resources and spirit of Del Mar. The Friends of Del Mar Parks has recently formed as a non-profit California corporation to lead the Campaign, separate from The Winston School, the Campaign’s fiscal agent for the past year. more>>
Rachel
-- the Gold-Medallist
Next Door It is hard to imagine that our “girl next door”, Rachel Buehler, has been in Beijing as a member of the Gold-medal winning US Women’s soccer team. She recently said, “It’s such an honor to play on the team and represent my country. It’s the coolest dream I could ever think of. I’ve been working for this for a long time”. Our whole Luneta neighborhood can attest to that! more>>
Cathy's
Perspective: Rescuing
Man’s
Best Friend
The Campaign For Del Mar Shores Committee Chair Joe Sullivan says his Committee is working hard to raise an additional $3.5 million in contributions still needed to pay off the debt on the Del Mar Shores site. That debt is in the form of a promissory note approved by the City of Del Mar which, along with $5 million in contributions raised thus far by the Committee, was needed to close escrow last May and complete the purchase of the 5.3 acre site from the Del Mar Unified School District. more>>
Samantha Kaplan, a senior at San Dieguito Academy and Del Mar resident, recently took a trip that was very different from most American teenagers' summer vacations. more>>
Historically Del Mar's reputation in San Diego County has been a leader on environmental issues such as the protection and acquisition of open space and in the forefront of efforts on regional projects such as the revitalization of the San Dieguito Lagoon. Given this reputation it is natural for Del Mar to develop its own green vision and to step up once again to lead and become an example of how communities, especially smaller communities, can participate in areas of environmental sustainability. more>>
Predating the Coastal Act of 1976, the 22nd District Agricultural Association (Ag District) has used well-documented wetlands at the southern and southeastern edges of its property for overflow parking. Now that the District has undertaken major redevelopment plans for the property, the environmental community wants the District to comply with the Coastal Act and relinquish these wetlands. more>>
Two down and two to go and this isn't about the races. We're talking music. We are half way through the Summer Twilight Concert season at Powerhouse Park . No green flashes to report yet, but good music for sure. The series opened with Atomic Groove in June; what a dance band they are; they had many of you up front and moving to their tunes. And then in July we had Midnight Ramblers and their tribute to the Rolling Stones; the park was full and Del Martian Bob Hughes and group had all in a major dance mode. more>>
Cathy's
Perspective Summertime
in Del Mar calls for
a trip to the San Diego
County Fair. There
The seismic retrofit and renovation of the historic bridge at our southern border is expected to begin during the second half of 2009. Full funding for the project, the most costly in the City's history, is expected from federal and state sources. According to David Scherer, Del Mar's Director of Public Works, the City Council will likely be presented with the project's Environmental Impact Report this fall. The environmental process, fortunately, is somewhat simplified because replacement of the bridge is no longer being considered, and retrofitting the existing structure is comparatively modest in any impacts to the environment. Thus, the project enjoys a "Categorical Exclusion" designation from the federal government, and a MND, mitigated negative declaration, from CEQA, the California Environmental Quality Act. more>>
Let's
Eat Our Yards!
Keep
Our Beaches Dry
Cathy’s
Perspective: Differing
Ideas about Summer Summer is finally here! Teenagers have wrapped up final exams, put an end to a long school year, and headed on to bigger and better things, or so they thought. Like many other students, I am looking forward to a summer full of free time, but my mother has different ideas for me this summer. more>>
A
Rising Ocean Affects
Us All Polar bears live far away, but Del Marians share something important with this Arctic species: The prospect of significant habitat change because of global warming. Two-thirds of the world's polar bears are predicted to disappear within 50 years because of Arctic ice decline, say USGS scientists. Jeff Severinghaus, a Scripps Institution of Oceanography scientist who studies ice-core samples to learn what causes abrupt climate change like one that occurred 8,000 years ago, says that best estimates are that global warming will cause sea rise of three feet, plus or minus 18 inches, in the next 100 years. more>>
Glorious
Grays in the Garden
How many of you have practically veered off the road when you have seen gorgeous plants while walking, driving, or riding your bike? This happened to me the first time I arrived in Del Mar ten years ago and saw the stunning plantings of gray gazanias hugging the ground in the median strips on Camino Del Mar and Jimmy Durante. I wanted to just roll around in their sensuous softness. Or how about when you're driving down Montezuma Valley Grade towards Borrego Springs and you see the gray-leafed brittle bushes ( Encelia farinosa) hugging the brown earth or clinging next to a rock? Closer to home, people always ask about the beautiful gray plants at the post office, Dusty Millers. If you are like me, you are stunned by these gorgeous beauties. more>>
Our
Original Locavores
There are 34 recorded archeological sites in the 182 acres of the extension (Archeological Survey of the Extension Area of Torrey Pines State Reserve, by Marla Mealey, 2002). One of these sites has a splendid view of the ocean and Torrey Pines State Reserve, as well as a wild-onion patch nearby and heaps of hand-chopper-sized broken rocks. Here the Kumuyaay camped hundreds of years ago (approx. 700 A.D. to the 1500s) and their predecessors thousands of years ago (5000 B.C. to 400 A.D.). Although none of the sites in the extension has been dated, there is a large village site southeast of the extension, which has yielded dates ranging from 5155 B.C. to 370 A.D. more>>
Cathy's
Perspective
Roosters do not wake you at the crack of dawn. In Kauai , there must be two roosters for every man, woman and child. more>>
Confidence
Breeds Success
Upon naming Mrs. Bernard in this role, DMUSD Board President Annette Easton stated, “Mrs. Bernard's breadth of experience across a variety of administrative positions will allow her to move seamlessly into this role…Mrs. Bernard's leadership style centers on trust, team building, and empowering others.” more>>
A Brief History of the Lagoon by Jacqueline Winterer
Crest Canyon Makes Many New Friends by Leslie Wollenweber
Shores Campaign a Step Closer by Barbara Mandel Pache
What
to do about downtown
blight by
Wanye Dernetz
The Test of fire by Bettina Experton
Downtown lags in sales tax revenue by Wayne Dernetz
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Little
Turtles Take to the
Sea 
Hair
Today, Gone Tomorrow
Farm-Based
Code Plows Ahead
Desert
Revisited:
"Sermons
in Stones
From
Blueprints to Banners: 
When
traveling,
A
Million Little Pieces
Swallow
Tales
back
to top
A
dog is a man’s
best friend and it is
normal for humans to
give anything they can
to help a dog indistress.
Whether it be a handful
of food or a new loving
home, a dog always returns
the favor with
unconditional love.
Many residents of Del
Mar have rescued dogs
in their own way. 
How
Green Is Del Mar? 
The
price of gas
In
May, the City Council
