Solana Beach News

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 12:05 a.m. David Brooks The Pamplemousse Grill in Solana Beach provides a variety of soup choices for the holiday season, including its "Roasted Pumpkin and Butternut Squash." U-T multimedia: For more recipes and a demonstration video on how to make butternut squash soup, go to uniontrib.com/more/soups ...

Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 3:29 a.m. SOLANA BEACH - Solana Beach residents are invited to help with a a oestreetscapea plan for improving and revitalizing Highway 101.

Clockwise, from the top: The Raveonettes, The Crocodiles and Dum Dum Girls member DEe Dee .

Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 10:26 p.m. Peggy Peattie / Union-Tribune With a Tesla electric car behind him, Marty Reed, chief executive of Sequoia Solar, unveiled a new vehicle-charging station at his business in Solana Beach Wednesday.

Sequoia Solar, a California company that designs, installs, and maintains grid-connected, solar solutions, will introduce its first networked solar-powered electric vehicle charging station, using equipment from Coulomb Technologies, on 11 November at its San Diego Country regional office in Solana Beach.

Students arriving to Santa Fe Christian in Solana Beach showed up Monday morning grieving the loss of a classmate in a car crash over the weekend.

Starting Thursday, several San Diego cities are uniting to share fire services. Those cities include El Cajon, La Mesa, Lemon Grove, Solana Beach, Encinitas, Del Mar and Rancho Santa Fe.

An Encinitas woman is recovering after she was attacked by a shark last Tuesday at Terramar Beach in Carlsbad.

On August 25, 2009, Bethany Edmund was swimming about 100 yards off shore at the popular Carlsbad surf spot Terramar when she was attacked by what appears to be a juvenile Great White Shark.

DOWN: Good interior designers have an eye for aesthetics that translates from bedrooms to birthday gifts.

A developer who was embroiled in a lengthy battle to open the Gregory Canyon Landfill in rural inland North San Diego County died last week of complications from cancer at the age of 67.

A fire at a six-unit condominium complex that overlooks Torrey Pines State Beach injured one person and caused an estimated $3.5 million to $4 million damage.

Racing resumes here in Southern California on Wednesday after a two-day break; and Hank Wesch reported in the San Diego Union Tribune that it's the first time since 1946 that a Monday has been dark.

Because we have a water shortage, every drop counts. So you're urged to do the right thing or face hefty fines.

Designer Zandra Rhodes stands on a mosiac she created on the patio of her beach-front home in Del Mar in this 2006 photo.

Chef Mark McEwan might be on to something trendy a ' the Toronto culinary star recently opened a high-end grocery store at a time when demand for luxury food items appears to be growing.

Lifeguards expect that the marine mammal, which is 10 to 12 feet long and weighs between 400 and 600 pounds, will strand itself, but it hasn't been found, said Encinitas Lifeguard Capt.

In the course of routine surveillance, Fitch Ratings upgrades to 'AA-' from 'A+' its rating on San Elijo Joint Powers Authority, California's $13.3 million in outstanding 2003 refunding revenue bonds .

Point Loma, Solana Beach and Rancho Santa Fe and other expensive areas reported numbers several times the level seen a year ago, a sign that the trend may continue upward.