The iPalpiti Festival, which brings classical music to multiple venues throughout the region, will discontinue its annual performances in Encinitas due to a conflict with the city’s arts administrator, the festival’s director announced in a letter to the mayor. iPalpiti Director Laura Schmieder said in the letter, dated Sept. 1, that the 10th season in Encinitas over the summer had been “nothing but a struggle from the start.”
Five Encinitas residents and up to 30 unnamed individuals filed a lawsuit against Mayor Catherine Blakespear on Wednesday in Vista Superior Court for blocking public comments on her mayoral Facebook page and allegedly breaching the terms of a previous settlement agreement reached this past spring.