by The Editors on January 5, 2008
The bluffs between Carlsbadistan’s sidewalk up top and the sea wall below may be getting a make-over according to a Barbara Henry story in the North County Times.
Responding to requests from Tamarack Beach residents and the city’s beach preservation committee, a superintendent for North County’s coastal state parks said this week that he was organizing a community planting event for Earth Day in April. . . . His “No. 1 priority,” Superintendent Brian Ketterer said, would be beautifying the eroded stretch of coastal bluffs between Pine and Tamarack avenues.
Hopefully, Brian’s idea of “beautify” is the same as ours. Then again, if we all help on Earth Day, then we can make it exactly what we want (one way or another).
[Link: North County Times]
by The Editors on January 5, 2008
In November The Carlsbad City Council voted to accept the build-out of the Ponto Vision Plan and part of that plan requires upgrades to La Costa Avenue. Problem is, La Costa Ave. is technically in Encinitas. The Carlsbad City Council decided that developers would only have to pay 27 percent of the estimated $5.34 million upgrade and Encinitas would have to pay the rest. Not so, says the Encinitas City Council. In fact, they believe it so strongly that the City of Encinitas has filed suit against The City of Carlsbad.
The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Superior Court, says the proposed, 50-acre Ponto resort in south Carlsbad would introduce up to 70 percent of future traffic onto La Costa Avenue; Carlsbad has proposed that developers cover 27 percent of the cost of improving the road. . . Citing state law, Encinitas is demanding that Carlsbad require Ponto developers to pay proportionately for improvements to La Costa’s intersections at the Coast Highway and at Vulcan Avenue, one block to the east.
The City of Carlsbad had not had enough time to go over the suit to make a comment in time for the North County Times story. Anything that slows this development down is fine with us. Let the lawyers pile on.
[Link: North County Times]
by The Editors on January 3, 2008
Carlsbad’s Phoenix Footwear has announced the sale of their Altama military footwear division to Tactical Holdings, Inc. for approximately “$15 million in total consideration,” according to a press release on Fox Business. Phoenix purchased this company on July 19, 2004 for approximately $35.3 million.
Commenting on the transaction, James Riedman, Phoenix Footwear’s Chairman, said, “The sale of Altama is an important part of continued improvements to our capital base. In addition to the direct cash it raises, it is expected to offset all of the capital taxes which arose from our gain earlier in the year with our Royal Robbins divestiture.”
So you’re saying a $20 million loss in value over three years is a good thing?
[Link: Fox Business]
by The Editors on January 3, 2008
The North County Times is reporting that: “William Currier Atkinson Jr., the first elected mayor of Carlsbad, died peacefully in his Vista home on New Year’s Day, according to his wife, Charlotte.” Mayor Bud Lewis remembers Atkinson was also President of the Army and Navy Academy:
“Bill was the first elected mayor,” Lewis said Wednesday, “but I remember him more for his dedication to the Army (and) Navy Academy, where he dedicated his life to the school and did what I thought was a great job for them.”
Atkinson was 76. Our thoughts are with the entire Atkinson family.
[Link: North County Times]
by The Editors on January 3, 2008
We feel badly about not warning anyone of the upcoming Carlsbad Marathon and Half Marathon scheduled for January 20, 2008, so this news makes us feel even worse. That’s right, registration is closed.
Registration for both the Carlsbad Marathon and the Carlsbad Half Marathon have reached participant capacity and have now closed, announced In Motion, Inc., the event’s organizer. Scheduled for January 20, 2008, the marathon and half marathon race fields have been capped at 1,500 and 7,600 entrants, respectively.
That’s not to say you can just run along without a number or sneak in with a charity organization.
[Link: Runner’s Web]
by The Editors on January 1, 2008
A sewer line that was blocked by tree roots caused 350-gallons of sewage to bust out through a manhole on Hoover street.
Signs warning of sewage-contaminated water will remain posted at the boat dock and recreational area near Snug Harbor/Cal Watersports until sample results indicate the ocean waters are safe.
But we’re pretty sure 350 gallons of poo won’t stop any wakeboarders. They are just that committed.
[Link: The North County Times]
by The Editors on December 30, 2007
We’ve seen the van driving around Carlsbadistan (at least we think it’s a van) with the words “Carlsbad Gourmet” on the side. While, we’re not saying that the two words are an oxymoron we will admit that they always seem to make us grin a little. Sadly, we never followed up on it. Now we get to learn all about Russ Brhun’s Carlsbad Gourmet from an interview in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
In 2003, Russ Bruhn founded Carlsbad Gourmet, a business that primarily makes food products with strawberries. Bruhn, 45, has come up with recipes for strawberry spread, strawberry-ginger mustard, strawberry-honey-mustard salad dressing, strawberry hot sauce, strawberry barbecue sauce and the company’s newest product, strawberry balsamic vinaigrette.
Click the link for a story we should have brought you months ago.
[Link: San Diego Union-Tribune and Carsbad Gourmet]
by The Editors on December 29, 2007
Carlsbad-based software company Document Sciences has been purchased by EMC Corp. of suburban Boston for $85 million in cash according to a story in the San Diego Business Journal.
The $14.75-per-share offer is a 79 percent premium on Document Sciences’ Dec. 26 closing price of $8.24 per share. . .The deal still needs stockholder and regulatory approval, and is expected to close in the first quarter of 2008.
Happy New Year to Document’s stock holders. We like 79 percent premiums.
[Link: San Diego Business Journal]
by The Editors on December 29, 2007
In a report released late Friday, Carlsbad golf clothing designer Ashworth Inc. announced that it only lost $3.9 million in the last quarter. And they are apparently happy about this. Ashworth said:
. . . its new management team is working on a turnaround plan to return the company to profitability. The plan will ‘take hard work and time and may result in short-term peaks and valleys,’ said Ashworth.
Darn, those pesky short term peaks and valleys. . .
[Link: CNNMoney.com]
by The Editors on December 29, 2007
Carlsbad-based development company Foursquare Properties has just purchased the Bellevue Mall in Nashville, Tennessee for $28 Million according to as story in the Nashville Business Journal.
The company can now proceed with its plans to transform the struggling mall into a $100 million open-air lifestyle center. . . Nashville’s Metro Planning Commission approved Foursquare’s plan in October. .. . The plan is to turn the enclosed mall into a lifestyle center with major retail anchors. Macy’s department store will remain and continue to own its property.
[Link: Nashville Business Journal]
The bluffs between Carlsbadistan’s sidewalk up top and the sea wall below may be getting a make-over according to a Barbara Henry story in the North County Times.
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