New Process will also Affect Coronado, Del Mar and Imperial Beach

SAN DIEGO – The City of San Diego is scheduled to begin fluoridating drinking water beginning February1, 2011. Eventually, all residents in the City of San Diego, as well as residents of the cities of Coronado,Del Mar and Imperial Beach will receive fluoridated water.

San Diego will supplement naturally‐occurring fluoride and imported fluoridated water in our drinkingwater to…

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The inaugural Coronado Valentine's Day 10K is close to selling out in it's first year!  The event will be capped at 1,500 participants this year and it is expected to reach that number in the first week of February.  If you or anyone you know has been putting off registering for the last minute, let them know to do it soon or they may miss out on this great new event.

Register at www.coronado10k.com and don't forget to…

Coronado Biss Salon and Spa is happy to be a part of the Coronado Community.  Please stop by to meet our team of professionals, and take a tour of our Lovely Salon.  Coronado Bliss Salon & Spa is an Aveda Lifestyle Salon & Spa, offering complete hair services, waxing, facials and massages.  Open seven days of week.

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Hotel del Coronado (Photo credit:  Ron Artigues / eCoronado.com)

As time runs out for the owners of the Hotel del Coronado to repay more than $600 million in debt, investment giant Blackstone Group is apparently coming to the rescue, reports The Wall Street Journal.



As we recently reported, the owners last month received a one-month extension to Feb. 9 on $630 million in loans that are coming…

When Bob Demmon arrived in Coronado in the late 1960s to take a teaching job, some of his students were a bit star-struck by their new instructor.



A former member of the surf band The Astronauts, the young musician had released several albums with the group and toured throughout the country and Japan before settling in San Diego County.



During his first days on the Coronado High School campus, he was told he shouldn’t be in the teacher’s lounge by staff members who…

CORONADO — A few residents are raising concerns about a radar and traffic monitoring device called a “Smart Sensor HD” on Third Street.



The microwave-based radars are installed on 20-foot-high poles at four locations throughout the city. The gadgets survey traffic by counting volumes and monitoring speeds. 

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Brian Smock has played enough golf around San Diego County that he can rattle off a list of places where he owns the course record.



He’s most proud of the 60 he shot at his home course, Coronado Municipal. And there are a handful of others, including Salt Creek, Vineyard, North Island, even Real Del Mar Golf Resort, between Tijuana and Rosarito in Baja California.



But of all the courses in San Diego County, the two he wouldn’t mind owning the records on are the tracks…

Good Day Friends of Island Fitness.  Lots of happenings on the horizon.  

Roof repair will have us closing at 7:30am on Monday the 31st of January.  No worries, we are back at 05:30am on Tuesday the 1st of February.…

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U.S. Recovery Gaining Momentum

January  2011

Dear Investors,

On December 31^st the U.S. stock market and most foreign markets…

Coronado Boutique, BE Styled will be featured in a live morning segment on San Diego's Channel 9, KUSI  at 8:45 AM!  Tune in and watch Coronado's own Barbara Burton and Elena Haley as they present perfume donations to the San Diego Zoo's Big Cat research team....a Live Cheetah included!  BE Styled is located at 1113 Adella Avenue. www.bestyledstudio.com

Study Part Of Debate Whether To Keep Or Disband Redevelopment Agencies



CORONADO, Calif. -- A redevelopment district in the city of Coronado will come under scrutiny as part of a state study into whether such agencies are effective or should be disbanded, it was announced Monday.



The state Controller's Office announced that 18 areas will be studied as part of the debate over whether redevelopment agencies should be abolished, as proposed by Gov. Jerry…

January 25 is Robert Burns' birthday, one of the most celebrated, and certainly the sentimental favorite poet of Scotland. Every year, fans of the man and his works celebrate his birthday by holding a Robert Burns Supper. Since his arrival in Coronado in 1959, my father George Sanger has been looking for someone with whom to celebrate this festive occasion.  For a few years he would hoist a few wee drams with Paul and Rita Hathaway, but when they moved away, he…

Retired Adm. Leon A. Edney, who served as NATO’s supreme allied commander for the Atlantic from 1990 to 1992, will be the speaker at Tuesday’s 14th annual James Bond Stockdale Leadership Symposium at the University of San Diego.



Edney, who flew combat missions during the Vietnam War, will speak on “A Nation at War, the Common Defense.”

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