La Mesa Today's Blog – November 2010 Archive (13)

Cosmos Coffee Cafe Changing Hands

LA MESA -- Cosmos Coffee Cafe, since 2004 a central gathering place for La Mesans young and old, is changing hands. Patrick Hoz and Paul Johnson, the two local entrepreneurs who quickly turned the shop into a center for coffee, talk and art, are selling the business and moving on to other ventures. "This was always our plan,'' Johnson said this morning. "We'd build it and sell it. It's time to reinvent ourselves again.''

The new owner, San… Continue

Added by La Mesa Today on November 29, 2010 at 2:00pm — 6 Comments

In This Paradise, Much To Be Thankful For

LA MESA -- It is very cold back East. Raining in the South. The Midwest is girding for a deep freeze.

Here, it is sweater weather at worst. The marine layer roles in and gives an excuse to light a fire.

As work stops for a few days, we stroll in sweatsuits, seeing seascape in one direction, majestic mountains in the other.

Even as some of us struggle with the challenges of unemployment and career changes, there is always a reason to give thanks when… Continue

Added by La Mesa Today on November 24, 2010 at 9:30pm — 3 Comments

La Mesa Police Nab Burglary Suspects Caught In Act

WOODLAND DRIVE -- After what seemed like a long series of crimes in which the bad guys always got away,

the La Mesa Police Department is on a bit of a roll. For the second time this week, police announced arrests in the kind of crimes that have been making headlines over the last few months.

On Thursday, just after 1 p.m., police responded to a call of two suspects trying to forcibly enter the residence at 4251 Woodland Drive, La Mesa. The suspects removed a screen from one of… Continue

Added by La Mesa Today on November 18, 2010 at 9:00pm — 1 Comment

Suspect In Gas Station Robbery Arrested

LAKE MURRAY -- La Mesa Police announced the arrest of a suspect in the Nov. 13 robbery of the 76 Station on Lake Murray Boulevard

Just before 7 p.m. Wednesday night members of the La Mesa Police Department's Special Enforcement Detail Team arrest 34-year-old James Randall goins for the robbery. Goins was arrested at his home in downtown San Diego and was later booked into San Diego County Jail on one count of robbery.

Police originally responded to a report of a robbery at the 76… Continue

Added by La Mesa Today on November 18, 2010 at 11:10am — No Comments

Motorcycle Officers Convene In La Mesa

LA MESA -- The city Police Department's Traffic Unit was hosting the Countywide Inter-agency Traffic Enforcement Team (CITE Team) throughout Thursday morning.

The CITE team consists of motorcycle traffic enforcement officers from all over the County of San Diego, who meet once a month for the specific purpose of targeting primary collision factors and reducing traffic violations in problem areas.

The goal was to maximize the effective use of police personnel, creating a strong presence…

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Added by La Mesa Today on November 18, 2010 at 10:30am — No Comments

Early Morning Robber Hits Lake Murray Station

LAKE MURRAY -- La Mesa police are looking for a man who robbed a service station and food mart at knifepoint at 3:32 A.M. today.

Police responded to a report of a robbery at the 76 Station, located at 6085 Lake Murray Boulevard. The store clerk told police that a white male suspect entered the food mart and posed as a customer.The suspect selected two items from the display racks and approached the cash counter to make a purchase with the clerk. While the clerk was ringing up the items at… Continue

Added by La Mesa Today on November 13, 2010 at 7:57am — No Comments

An Honor For Old Glory On Veteran's Day

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Added by La Mesa Today on November 11, 2010 at 5:30pm — 1 Comment

In Election's Wake, A Symbolic Split

LA MESA -- One sensed during the recent election that if Councilwoman Ruth Sterling's efforts to aid challengers didn't succeed, she would find herself even more estranged from the incumbents on the five member body.

It didn't take long.

At the first post-election meeting, weighing the first substantive - albeit small dollar -- issue, the council split 4-1.

Sterling was the one.

Fresh off an election in which Mayor Art Madrid and council members Mark Arapostathis and Ernie… Continue

Added by La Mesa Today on November 9, 2010 at 7:30pm — 2 Comments

And You Thought You Had A Bad Day?

A motorist on Jackson Drive, clearly mistook "D" for "R"

Added by La Mesa Today on November 9, 2010 at 3:00pm — 1 Comment

In One Election's Wake, Another Is Born

CITY HALL -- Bleary eyed from a late night, much of La Mesa's political leadership gathered Wednesday evening to hear Jim Wieboldt, a part of Mayor Art Madrid's "kitchen cabinet,'' announce his candidacy for the 2012 City Council race. Wieboldt acknowledged to a crowd of about 30 supporters that he was announcing "early,'' but he said in a speech that the excesses of the recently completed city elections -- races marked by name calling and alleged… Continue

Added by La Mesa Today on November 3, 2010 at 8:00pm — 3 Comments

Wieboldt Takes Aim At Councilwoman Sterling

LA MESA – Even before the final vote totals were tallied in Tuesday’s election, a key supporter of Mayor Art Madrid took aim at one of Madrid’s political opponents.

Jim Wieboldt, a San Diego County Sheriff’s employee and part of Madrid’s kitchen cabinet, filed papers to begin pursuing what he says will be a race against City Council member Ruth Sterling, who would be up for re-election in 2012. Sterling was instrumental in Laura Lothian’s unsuccessful challenge against… Continue

Added by La Mesa Today on November 3, 2010 at 7:15am — 3 Comments

ANALYSIS: Experience Trumped Anti-Incumbent Sentiments

LA MESA – In the end – after weeks of debate and some arguments –voters in the Jewel of the Hills decided to stay the course.

In a year when much of the national politics was dominated by anger and a rejection of incumbents, La Mesa returned to office the mayor who has led it for two decades and two council members who have pursued stability and measured growth.

Still, the leadership that survived a cranky election process comes out the other side still facing the problems… Continue

Added by La Mesa Today on November 3, 2010 at 3:00am — 3 Comments

MADRID WINS FIFTH TERM; ARAPOSTATHIS, EWIN RE-ELECTED

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LA MESA -- Art Madrid narrowly won a fifth term as mayor Tuesday assuring he will lead the city into its second century. Incumbent council members Mark Arapostathis and Ernie Ewin easily won re-election over a trio of newcomers.

With 100 percent of the vote finally counted early this morning, Madrid… Continue

Added by La Mesa Today on November 2, 2010 at 10:30pm — 2 Comments