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One group of exceptional public servants we wish to recognize are the 50 employees of the state of Minnesota Sixth District Public Defender’s Office.

The La Jolla Light received 10 Excellence in Journalism awards from the San Diego Press Club on Oct. 25 — including five for first place — and its president and general manager, Phyllis Pfeiffer, received the Jim Reiman Award for outstanding media management.

Preserve Walter Munk’s house for science I am an oceanographer from Cambridge University in England, and like hundreds of other oceanographers worldwide, I was a personal friend of Walter Munk and found him to be the greatest inspiration for my career as a scientist. More than a living legend, he was a living god to us lesser scientists. Many is the time that we have stayed in Seiche [Munk’s La Jolla home] and learned directly from Walter how he built the house with his own hands and to the...

Print For the better part of 15 years, five days a week, San Diego Parks & Recreation Department employee America Diaz has set foot at the city’s shoreline parks with one job: to make them look better. For the past eight years, she has been assigned to La Jolla’s Scripps Park and considers it her personal mission to keep it looking as clean and vibrant as possible. “Me and my workers maintain the trash, pick up litter and would clean the bathrooms as best we could when the bathrooms were ...

Print Following a Dec. 16 ruling and a clarification the next day from a San Diego County Superior Court judge that coronavirus-related restrictions limiting restaurants to takeout service were no longer applicable, several La Jolla restaurants reopened for onsite dining service. Restaurants, along with several other businesses, were asked to close their doors Dec. 7 to in-person dining after the state enacted regional closures based on the region’s hospital intensive care capacity dropping b...