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Orange Avenue is not your run-of-the-mill street. It’s the island’s main street dripping in character, peppered with funky mom-and-pop establishments and coastal art. It can also be a parking nightmare. The boutique shops make Coronado unique, but it’s getting harder and harder for them to stay afloat, and more common for chains to swoop in.  […]

For passersby strolling the beach walk in front of the Hotel del Coronado, intricate sandcastles have been an occasional and welcome discovery.  At least they were for years. On Feb. 5, the hotel parted ways with the Sandcastle Man, Bill Pavlacka, after nearly 20 years of allowing his sand designs in the hotel’s backyard. Engagements, […]

A significant number of sailors stationed in Coronado are not actually living on land. They’re bunking in the ships docked around San Diego Bay. It’s a lot tougher living than most people realize – cramped quarters and a lack of privacy, to name a couple of conditions.  James Honea, the former master chief petty officer […]

If you take a hike along Orange Avenue from Hotel del Coronado to the Ferry Landing, you’ll find a whole lot of restaurants that skew more toward commercial than characterful. Coronado’s food scene is a unique one. Because many of its customers are out of towners, most of its restaurants are concentrated along about 1.7 […]

This year has seen many developments in the Tijuana sewage crisis – expedited timelines, memorandums of understanding, attempts at Superfund designation. And the most recent: a new agreement signed by the U.S. and Mexico called Minute 333.  Before your eyes glaze over at the mention of another unintelligible bureaucratic term, let’s break down what this […]

It’s an ambiance that’s rare to come by these days – that small-town holiday feeling that’s timeless, cozy and full of nostalgia. Amid countless Christmas events and holiday celebrations each year, Coronado somehow makes the feeling tangible. And that’s thanks to community members who carry on traditions set long ago.  The world’s first outdoor, electrically-lit, […]

Correction: A previous version of this story incorrectly identified a clean energy option that has been suspended. This story has been updated to reflect the change. For years now, Coronado officials have been mulling a decision that could change how the city procures its energy and where it comes from.  Currently, the energy powering Coronado […]

Intuitively, most people would agree that cell phone usage during school hours is harmful to a student’s learning and social engagement.   And in actuality, the numbers are there to back up that claim:  On a typical day, teens pick up their phones over 100 times on average, according to a 2023 report from Common Sense […]

This Thanksgiving, we have so much to be grateful for. As a newspaper, we want to thank our readers for welcoming us into Coronado and investing time and energy into telling us your stories and reading our content. It is a job we do not take lightly.   We hope you enjoy some good food, good […]

Now that we’ve had some time to process the Port of San Diego’s closed-door decision terminating its lease with the current operator of the Coronado Ferry Landing, it’s clear one thing is still missing: answers.  It was a decision that sent confusion rippling through the community. With no guarantee of a lease extension to Port […]