by The Editors on August 12, 2007
Carlsbad’s own NASCAR driver Boris Said (of the No Fear team) was in the process of sitting out Sunday’s Centurion Boats at the Glen race thanks to a qualifying “rain-out” at Watkins Glen International when Said reportedly ran into #21 car driver Bill Elliot in the garage.
“Hey man, you should be driving my car,” Elliott said to Said, who was locked out of Sunday’s Centurion Boats at the Glen when qualifying was rained out Friday. As he walked to his Busch car, Said smiled and responded, “Sure, no problem, I’ll drive” . . . Elliott marched into the Wood Brothers/JTG Racing hauler and asked team co-owners Eddie and Len Wood if they would allow him to give up his seat in the No. 21 Ford to Said.
Elliot believes Said will be able to lift the number 21 car up in the rankings if he has a strong finish.
[Link: USA Today]
by The Editors on August 12, 2007
An underground power line failed yesterday around noon and left 900 Carlsbadistanians with out power near Poinsettia Lane and Linden Terrace.
Power had been expected to be restored by around 4 p.m., officials said, but Saturday evening about 36 customers were still without power. Power was expected to be restored by midnight, the company’s Web site reported.
[Link: North County Times]
by The Editors on August 11, 2007
The whole Carlsbad strawberry field issue in the last elections in November was simply too confusing for any level headed resident to figure out. That said, the easiest way to explain it is that the “open space” people won with the passage of Prop. D. Now the new “Prop. D Citizens Liaison Committee” will be conducting “a communitywide assessment process.”
With the first meeting of a new citizens committee Friday morning, Carlsbad launched a six-month process to determine what the future might hold for the privately owned strawberry and flower-growing lands along Cannon Road. “I think we live in an age of very strong opinions based on very superficial knowledge,” said committee member Gary Hill as explanation of why he thought residents should be asked broad questions rather than simply asked what should be done with the strawberry fields.
Hopefully, they’ll build a new skatepark in there somewhere. If they do, then we’re all for it.
[Link: North County Times]
by The Editors on August 11, 2007
According to a story in the Coast News the California Coastal Commission has approved Poseidon Resources fifth application for its planned desalination plant in the lagoon next to the Encina Power Plant.
“This is precisely what we’ve been hoping to accomplish, to get to a point when we could get a hearing,” said Peter MacLaggan, senior vice president for Poseidon. “It’s an important milestone, but it’s just a procedural step. We need to focus on preparing for the hearing.”
The approval is not for the plant itself, but for an application to present a plan to the Coastal Commission in mid November 2007. In other words, Poseidon Resources has been given permission to ask permission.
[Link: Coast News Group]
by The Editors on August 11, 2007
After two separate days of “locals only” play, The Crossings-at-Carlsbad is finally open to the general public. We were planning on getting up early this morning and driving out to do some coverage on the first people to play the course, however, after last night’s TGIF Jazz in the Park we just weren’t feeling it.
We called to check on when a “visiting guest” could get on the course and the first available bookable tee-time was on Sunday August 19th. Apparently, this course is being pretty well-received.
[Link: The Crossings-at-Carlsbad]
by The Editors on August 8, 2007
At around 1:15 AM this morning a Ford Explorer missed that tight left hander on the 78 to I-5 south onramp, plowed through the guard rail, and “splashed into the Buena Vista Lagoon.” You don’t know how many times we’ve seen that rail up a little too close for comfort.
A tow truck fished the SUV out of the water, and the Explorer’s driver was transported to a hospital for treatment of minor injuries, the CHP said. . . The cause of the crash was under investigation.
[Link: San Diego Union Tribune]
by The Editors on July 30, 2007
A 17-year-old Carlsbad boy appears to have purposefully driven his car into a light post on the corner of El Camino Real and Poinsettia Lane late Sunday night July 29, 2007 hoping to kill himself.
The young male behind the wheel apparently drove into the light pole at high speed, police Lt. Don Rawson reported. The boy was the only occupant in the vehicle. . . “Subsequent investigation showed the crash to be intentional and the collision a completed suicide,” Rawson wrote in a statement.
[Link: San Diego Union Tribune]
by The Editors on July 20, 2007
When Calavera Hills Middle School principal Eric Trogden left his job unexpectedly last week to pursue a career as a financial analyst the district decided to move assistant principal Catina Hancock into the job.
Hancock, 33, brings experience as a classroom teacher at Jefferson Elementary School and assistant principal at Calavera Hills Elementary School, Calavera Hills Middle School and Aviara Oaks Middle School to her leadership role as principal, said Torrie Norton, assistant superintendent of personnel.
Hancock was apparently in the running for the job of Magnolia Elementary, however, when Trogden left the trustees moved her up and found Ron Hess, a principal from Twentynine Palms, to come in off the desert and head Magnolia until it closes.
Magnolia’s new principal, comes to Carlsbad from the high desert community of Twentynine Palms, where he served four years as principal at Joshua Tree Elementary School in the Morongo Unified School District. The New York native, a 28-year veteran of education, served in schools in Virginia and Texas before moving to California five years ago. He worked in the Murrieta Unified School District as principal of Alta Murrieta Elementary School for a year before moving to the desert.
For more on this story, click the link.
[Link: North County Times]
by The Editors on July 20, 2007
It seemed like Carlsbad Police where everywhere yesterday: hiding behind trees, parking in secret spots, waving radar guns attached to their motorcycles. Well, it was all part of a “multi-agency traffic enforcement operation” according to the North County Times.
Officers from the Carlsbad, Escondido and Oceanside police departments, the county Sheriff’s Department and a number of other agencies participated in the detail, which was held between 7 and 11:30 a.m. at about 20 locations throughout the city, police spokeswoman Lynn Diamond said. . . The locations targeted, including spots on Carlsbad Boulevard, Palomar Airport Road and La Costa Avenue, were chosen because they are “either problem (areas) we’re seeing on a regular basis or the community ID’d them as significant problems,” Diamond said.
Talk about a crack-down. All told there was one felony warrant arrest, 250 citations issued, and 16 cars were towed away because the drivers were unlicensed.
[Link: North County Times]
by The Editors on July 20, 2007
Four people were displaced Thursday July 19, 2007 at 9:49 AM when the motorhome they were living in on the 2700 block of Via Cardel, a “private street” was completely destroyed by fire.
Responding firefighters found the home fully ablaze and the fire had spread into two trees, Kennedy said. Firefighters had the blaze under control after about 20 minutes, Kennedy said. “It was completely destroyed,” he said of the motor home.
The North County Times reports that the blaze is still under investigations.
[Link: North County Times]
Carlsbad’s own NASCAR driver Boris Said (of the No Fear team) was in the process of sitting out Sunday’s Centurion Boats at the Glen race thanks to a qualifying “rain-out” at Watkins Glen International when Said reportedly ran into #21 car driver Bill Elliot in the garage.
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