The Sandpiper

inside the November 2008 sandpiper

pdf version of the November 2008 issue

Measure H: To TOT or NOT to TOT by Henry Abarbanel | Web exclusive: The article below is more detailed than the article which appeared in the print edition.

Measure G: A Garden of Office-Retail by Dwight Worden | Web exclusive: The article below is more detailed than the article which appeared in the print edition.

Fair Share Editorial

Adopt a Spot by David Scherer

Del Mar 101: A 12-Month Intensive for City Managers Karen Brust is interviewed by Bud Emerson

Your Trees, My Views, Our Process by Mark Whitehead

Swallow Tales by Ed Mirsky

You win - But We Still Want to Know the candidates are interviewed by Wayne Dernetz | Web exclusive: The article below is more detailed than the article which appeared in the print edition.

A Million Little Pieces by Piper Underwood

Ballot 08: Is there Life Beyond Del Mar? Opinion by Gordon Clanton

A Day at the Races courtesy of the Del Mar Historical Society

Oct/Nov Community Calendar

Community Connections

and Other Horse Races

Measure H: To TOT or NOT to TOT
Measure G: A Garden of Office - Retail
Fair Share: Editorial
Council Candidates: Interview
Ballot 08: Is There Life Beyond DM?: Opinion
Meet Nick Leibham: Letter to the Editor

Note: We have published the Sandpiper a week early because of the upcoming election.

Swallow Tales
By Ed Mirsky

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

Planning Commission

Design Review Board

Community Calendar
October/November

Del Mar Calendar

DM Library Calendar October/November

Photo Gallery

On Torrey Pines Beach. Contributed by Gloria Sandvik.

A Million Little Pieces
By Piper Underwood

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>>