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Menehune junior surf contest registration closes Friday
The Windansea Surf Club's 34th Menehune junior surf contest registration deadline is 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 25, with the one-day competition set for Oct. 3 at La Jolla Shores.
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First sea turtle nests on West Coast linked to Scripps heat data
For the first time in recorded history, sea turtles nested on a U.S. West Coast beach near Seal Beach and Huntington Beach, an event NOAA called unprecedented that coincides with record ocean temperatures tracked at La Jolla's Scripps Pier.
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La Jolla-born Holocaust exhibit opens Sept. 29 downtown
The RUTH Holocaust exhibit, which ran at the La Jolla/Riford Library through June 15, opens Tuesday, Sept. 29, at the San Diego Central Library with free admission and plans to announce the site of San Diego's first permanent Holocaust museum.
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MCASD opens free 'Visiones Nocturnas' exhibit Sept. 19 in La Jolla
MCASD opens "Visiones Nocturnas: Queer Nightlife in Contemporary Art" with a free public day Saturday, Sept. 19, while Quint Gallery hosts a reception for Christine Lee's solo show "By Hand" the same evening on Girard Avenue.
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UCSD alumnus Brett Littman takes helm at La Jolla's MCASD
Brett Littman, a 1995 UC San Diego philosophy graduate who credits the La Jolla museum with shaping his career, has been named the fifth director and CEO of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, starting Oct. 1.
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Brother's memoir honors La Jolla High athlete killed on 9/11
Craig Woodall published "Overcome: Rebuilding Hope After Losing My Brother on 9/11" in August, chronicling his grief after losing his brother Brent, a La Jolla High School and UC Berkeley two-sport athlete killed in the World Trade Center attacks at age 31.
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SDUSD condemns ICE arrests near San Diego schools
At least four ICE arrests near San Diego schools in two weeks prompted a joint statement from SDUSD Superintendent Fabi Bagula and elected officials urging federal agents to stop enforcement near campuses, a demand that covers all district schools including those serving La Jolla.
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MCASD hosts Design Week's first fashion track Sept. 17
San Diego Design Week's inaugural fashion and costume design track takes over the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in La Jolla on Thursday, Sept. 17, with exhibits by local designers, free La Jolla Playhouse costume tours and about 75 events countywide through Sept. 20.
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Scripps Pier data tracks San Diego's most humid summer since 1980
Sea-surface temperatures at La Jolla's Scripps Pier reached 73.8°F on Sept. 10, well above the 68.8-degree average, helping drive what one UC climate scientist calls the most humid Southern California summer since 1980.
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Scripps ocean center marks 25 years with free La Jolla events
The Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation at Scripps Institution of Oceanography celebrates its 25th anniversary with a free lecture and party Tuesday, Sept. 15, and a family-friendly celebration at Birch Aquarium Saturday, Sept. 19.
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Green Dragon Colony fireplace endures as La Jolla's artistic relic
A new Times of San Diego feature traces how Anna Held's $165 land purchase above La Jolla Cove in 1894 seeded the Green Dragon Colony, the artists' enclave that helped define the village's creative identity, with its lone surviving fireplace still bearing Held's handwritten German inscription after the cottages were demolished in 1991.
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Birch Aquarium releases 223 endangered frogs into the wild
Birch Aquarium at Scripps released 223 endangered mountain yellow-legged frogs into creeks near Idyllwild in August, the La Jolla facility's second reintroduction and part of a multi-agency effort to save a species with fewer than 200 adults left in the wild.