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March 15, 2024
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The Encinitas Boardriders Club recently punched its ticket to Australia for the Usher Cup, an international surfing competition at Snapper Rocks in Gold Coast, Queensland. Story on 14.
Primary results continue to roll in By Laura Place
Local yogi begins anew in Encinitas Encinitas yoga instructor Missy Szymanski is back from Hong Kong with her new studio, Good Yoga. 16
Results from the March 5 primary election continue to roll in, with the San Diego County Registrar of Voters sharing its most recent update late Monday. As of late Monday, around 30,000 votes remained to be processed in San Diego County. The next round of updated, unofficial results will be released online by 5 p.m. on March 15. The California Secretary of State will offi-
DEL MAR — Crews will kick off a three-year, $78 million bluff stabilization project in Del Mar later in March with the goal of protecting the coastal train tracks, improving drainage and RANCHO preventing bluff failures over the comSFNEWS ing decades. The project, expected to begin March 21, is the fifth of six phases intended to stabilize the bluff through at least 2050. This phase will target a 1.6-mile stretch from Coast Avenue to Torrey Pines State Park, adding around 2,000 feet of seawalls, soldier piles, and tieback anchors to stabilize the track bed and drainage improvements along the bluff. SANDAG Principal Engineer Allie DeVaux said crews will work on different elements of the project both on the blufftop and down on the beach. They are planning to begin with the construction of some of the seawalls, which run along the toe of the bluff. Crews will use the Torrey Pines State Beach parking lot and 18th Street lot in Del Mar as beach access areas during the project, according to DeVaux. “You will see equipment coming through from both these areas and traversing down the beach to get to those areas they need, to construct the seawalls, to construct the drainage outlets, and many of these things,” DeVaux told the Del Mar City Council on March 4. Construction on top of the bluff
cially certify the results by April 12, and counties must certify their results by April 4 or within 30 days of the election. Here are the updated unofficial results as of TURN TO PRIMARY ON 20
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Gold and purple wildflowers blanket the floor of the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park on March 5 near Borrego Springs. The pops of color from the sand verbena, desert sunflowers and desert primrose are nature’s way of announcing the arrival of spring. Photo by Alex Morris
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