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  • County supervisors don't budge on daytime budget hearings

    Chris Lindahl, Special to the Village News|Updated Feb 26, 2018

    The San Diego County Board of Supervisors did not heed the calls of residents who sounded off against its plan to hold this year’s budget hearings during the day, rather than at night as has been the case in recent years. Deriding the board as out of touch and lacking transparency, the half-dozen residents who addressed the supervisors said the plan was a blow against open government because far fewer people can attend meetings during the day to offer feedback on the county’s $5.7 billion budget blueprint. The board in Dec...

  • San Luis Rey Downs equine death toll from Lilac Fire at 46

    Chris Lindahl|Updated Dec 15, 2017

    BONSALL – The death toll for horses at the San Luis Rey Downs Training Center affected by the Lilac Fire reached 46, according to California Horse Racing Board officials. Officials have determined that the horses perished when the blaze tore through equine country in Bonsall and heavily damaged the San Luis Rey Downs Training Center, where as many as 495 horses can be stabled. Among the horses killed was multiple stakes-winner California Diamond. The 3-year-old gelding owned by Rockingham Ranch had five wins and five s...