November 2021

Our strategy for protecting the coastline needs reframing. We are defacing and armoring bluffs to protect the tracks. We are putting wider berms in lagoons to increase traffic on the

The St. Peter’s Thrift Stop is grandly reopening into a generous renovated space filled with finds of all kinds of quality goods, gently used, at a nice price. Valerie Rieger

Dear Sandpiper,   I write to explain why I asked publicly at the October 18 council meeting that an item be placed on a future council agenda to discuss the

Joseph Smith, AICP has announced that he is leaving his position as Planning and Community Development Director effective January 2022. Smith indicates in his resignation letter that he plans to

It’s time to take an “art walk,” a real one, along Camino Del Mar, from 9th to 15th Street and west to Stratford, to view five new sculptures now in

I served on the Design Review Board for 6 years (2002-2008), and I soon recognized the common developer gambit of proposing a project twice as big as necessary and then

Step into Bohemian Alchemist, a newly opened coffee and tea house, to enjoy “unusual and evocative flavors including ingredients like yaupon, a native American plant similar to tea but with

On February 7, 1990, the American Trader, an oil tanker spilled 416,598 gallons of crude oil off the coast of Huntington Beach. Thirty-one years later, on October 2, 2021, a