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Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
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Fallbrook High School's girls placed 11th among Division II schools at the CIF San Diego Section cross country meet Nov. 16 at Morley Field in San Diego. Cross country team scores add the positions of a school's first five finishers; the sixth and seventh runners from each team are not scored but can add points to opponents' totals. Fallbrook had 323 points, edging 12th-place Central Union (El Centro) by one point. Bonita Vista had the 10th-place score of 312 points. Sixteen...
Three Fallbrook High School 12th-grade boys concluded their high school cross country careers at the CIF San Diego Section meet Nov. 16 at Morley Field in San Diego. Xavier Charland finished 92nd in the Division II boys race; Alex Lugo had the 106th-place time, and Cruz Arroyo was the 118th runner across the finish line. "The guys that showed up gave me their best effort," said Fallbrook head coach Marco Arias. "Everyone ran to their ability today." The CIF San Diego Section...
The president and vice-president of the Rainbow Municipal Water District board will now be elected at December board meetings. Normally Rainbow’s November and December board meetings are combined, but items related to Rainbow’s detachment from the San Diego County Water Authority and annexation to the Eastern Municipal Water District resulted in a Nov. 19 special meeting which was in addition to the previously scheduled Dec. 10 board meeting. The Nov. 19 meeting included a 5-0 board vote to amend Rainbow’s Admin...
The Nov. 4 meeting of San Diego County’s Local Agency Formation Commission included an update on the municipal service reviews for the county’s four healthcare districts. The update was a non-voting item. LAFCO consultant Adam Wilson gave the presentation. The last municipal service review and sphere of influence update for the Fallbrook, Grossmont, Palomar, and Tri-City healthcare districts was approved by the LAFCO board in May 2015, and that approval also designated special study areas for possible future action. The Fallb...
The Bonsall Community Sponsor Group has recommended that the County of San Diego approve a time extension for the planned Marquart Ranch subdivision. A 5-0 sponsor group vote Nov. 12, with sponsor group chair Steve Norris and vice-chair Larissa Anderson absent, recommended a two-year time extension for the project. The time extension would not change any design or condition of the parcel map. In October 2007, the county’s Planning Commission approved a tentative map to subdivide the 44.2-acre Marquart Ranch property into n...
Years ago, I was having a discussion with a political writer and the conversation included dual citizenship. Her thought was that those with dual citizenship could vote in the elections of both countries, so dual citizenship was bad. My thought was that dual citizens could compete in the Olympics for either country, which would be good. Now that one of my own descendants has dual citizenship, an anti-American aspect, albeit a temporary one, of dual citizenship has occurred to me. My granddaughter could eventually compete in... Full story
The San Diego County Water Authority has approved the weighted vote for 2025 SDCWA meetings. The weighted vote for 2025 was approved by the CWA board Nov. 21. The completion of the detachment of the Rainbow Municipal District from the CWA also resulted in a revision of the weighted vote allocation for the Nov. 21 meeting as well as for any special meetings called in December 2024. The Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton’s weighted vote, which had been 0.077%, was 0.080% for the Nov. 21 meeting and will be 0.077% for calendar y...
The Fallbrook Public Utility District procurement policy allows the FPUD general manager to delegate certain tasks. FPUD’s procurement policy had specified which positions could be authorized as the designee, but the specific positions were eliminated by an Oct. 28 board action. The 5-0 vote revises the section of FPUD’s Administrative Code relating to definitions for procurement actions. FPUD’s Administrative Code allows the FPUD general manager to delegate tasks, so specific positions are redundant as well as possi...
The reorganization in which the Rainbow Municipal Water District detached from the San Diego County Water Authority and annexed to the Eastern Municipal Water District as a retail agency is now complete. Eastern has adjusted its division boundaries to add Rainbow to Division 2 for EMWD election purposes. The 4-0 EMWD board vote Nov. 20, with Jeff Armstrong absent, adopts a resolution adding Rainbow to Division 2. The board also authorized EMWD general manager Joe Mouawad or his designee to execute a billing and service...
Bonsall High School's 2024 cross country team only had enough runners to place in a meet as a team once and the Legionnaires boys placed sixth that day, and none of Bonsall's runners earned all-league status. However, Bonsall head coach Manuel Ramirez notes that the season was still successful. "I want to congratulate all the runners for meeting all their goals and having an amazing season," Ramirez said. "Everybody did amazing." The races in the Aug. 31 CCA Ravens XC Invitati...
The top 10 finishers in the Valley League cross country championship race earned berths on the all-league first team while the next 10 finishers were placed on the all-league second team. Two Fallbrook High School girls earned second-team recognition for their performances at the Nov. 9 league championship race at Kit Carson Park. A time of 21:36.3 on the 3.05-mile course gave senior Cynthia Mills 11th place and second-team recognition. "I'm happy with that, but I wish I...
Fallbrook High School’s boys cross country team shared fifth in the final 2024 Valley League standings. The formula for the Valley League team cross country league championship gives 25% for positions at each of the two league cluster meets and the other 50% for the positions at the league championship meet. Fallbrook’s boys were fifth at both cluster meets, which occurred Oct. 4 at Kit Carson Park and Oct. 18 at Guajome Park, and sixth at the league championship meet Nov. 9 at Kit Carson Park. Escondido was sixth in bot...
Seven Fallbrook High School football players were given all-league designation by the Palomar League coaches. Camden Hoff was chosen for the offensive first team. Wyatt Casillas was placed on the defensive first team. Evan Thomas and Ryder Wood are the two Fallbrook players on the offensive second team. The defensive second team included Blake Robinson. Ernesto Garcia and Tayjon Owens were recognized at the honorable mention level. “I thought that was about right for what our season was,” Fallbrook head coach Ross Joh...
The Fallbrook Public Utility District board awarded NMN Construction the FPUD contract for improvements to the Rattlesnake Reservoir site. The 5-0 vote Oct. 28 approved an $818,000 contract with NMN Construction, whose office is in Tustin. Rattlesnake Reservoir itself is in good condition, but the area around the tank is in need of significant improvements due to erosion and stormwater issues on the Olive Hill area site. Rattlesnake Reservoir was installed in the 1950s. The steel reservoir has a capacity of 3.5 million gallon...
The Bonsall Unified School District has renewed its music instruction services agreement with Kai Turley. A 5-0 BUSD board vote Oct. 16 approved a new independent contractor agreement with Turley for drumline learning enrichment courses. The agreement covers the 2024-25 school year from Aug. 14 to June 8, and Turley will be paid $14,400 for that period. “Extracurricular learning, such as our drumline classes, expose students to a variety of arts and activities to enhance the traditional core academics offered during the s...
The 25 mph speed limit on Flowerwood Lane between Knottwood Way and Gird Road will be retained. A 5-0 San Diego County Board of Supervisors vote Oct. 9 approved the first reading and introduction of the ordinance to retain the speed limit for the 1.35-mile segment and to recertify the speed limit for radar enforcement. The supervisors voted 4-0 Oct. 23 with Joel Anderson absent to approve the second reading and adoption. In order for a speed limit to be enforceable by radar, a speed survey must show that the speed limit is wi...
Hana Winton signed a letter of intent to play collegiate softball at California State University, Fullerton. High school seniors in certain sports were allowed to sign National Collegiate Athletic Association letters of intent on Nov. 13. The San Diego Sports Association and the CIF San Diego Section hosted a signing ceremony at Snapdragon Stadium in San Diego that morning, and Winton signed her letter of intent there. "I'm super excited, and it's a huge privilege to go play...
Although a first-round CIF Division V-A playoff loss gave Fallbrook High School’s football team a season record of 0-11 for the 2024 season, the 34‑33 score Nov. 8 at Fallbrook was the closest the Warriors were all year to winning a game. “I did expect it to be a close game,” said Fallbrook head coach Ross Johnson. “Both teams had some pretty good offensive weapons.” The 242 rushing yards Monte Vista senior Alexander Villanueva gained against Fallbrook brought his season total to 2,104 in 11 games. “They had the leading runni...
The 2024 Del Mar Thoroughbred Club fall meet began Oct. 31, and during the first week of the meet, San Luis Rey Training Center trainers Rolando Quinonez and Peter Miller each saddled two winners. Quinonez and Miller each had a winner on the first day of the meet. Quinonez won the fourth race Oct. 31 with Everything Bugs Me while Miller’s win that day was in the sixth race with Game Warrior. Tisquantum won the first race Nov. 2 to give Quinonez wins in both of his starts the first week of the fall meet. Spirit Rules won the s...
The conditions of the detachment of the Fallbrook Public Utility District from the San Diego County Water Authority included an exit fee paid to the SDCWA to cover the loss of CWA fixed revenues. The agreement also included FPUD purchasing the CWA infrastructure used to provide water to FPUD. The Oct. 28 FPUD board meeting approved the acquisition of the Fallbrook 3 Flow Control Facility. The 5-0 vote authorized FPUD General Manager Jack Bebee to approve a Bill of Sale which will transfer ownership of the flow control facilit...
In recent months the North County Fire Protection District has been awarded more than $685,000 in grant funding. "It's been a great year for grant awards for the North County Fire Protection District," said NCFPD Fire Chief Keith McReynolds. The Federal Emergency Management Agency's U.S. Fire Administration has an Assistance to Firefighters Grant program which provides funding to fire departments and other emergency medical services providers so that those agencies can equip...
A presentation on two senior housing projects planned for Fallbrook was given at the Oct. 21 Fallbrook Community Planning Group meeting, and the planning group members expressed their concerns about parking and demand on emergency services. “The number one concern was parking. The number two concern was the size,” said planning group first vice-chair Stephani Baxter, who chaired the Oct. 21 meeting in the absence of planning group chair Eileen Delaney. The input was in response to an informational presentation and was not...
The various legal actions involving the Fallbrook Public Utility District and the Santa Margarita Watershed include allocated runoff from Lake Skinner in Temecula. A lack of recent runoff warrants a hydrologic review, and the Oct. 28 FPUD board meeting included awarding a contract for a hydrology study and conceptual runoff model. The 5-0 vote authorized FPUD General Manager Jack Bebee to sign an agreement with Stetson Engineers to perform the hydrology study and conceptual runoff model for Lake Skinner which will study the l...
Don McDougal has been on the Fallbrook Public Utility District board since 2004 and did not file for re-election this year. No other resident of Subdistrict 4 filed for the seat, so the vacancy will be filled by the San Diego County Board of Supervisors. McDougal has agreed to remain on the board, and the rest of the FPUD board members recommended that he be appointed to fill the vacancy. The 4-0 board vote Oct. 28, with McDougal recusing himself, approved a letter to the Board of Supervisors recommending that McDougal be...
The Fallbrook Community Planning Group addressed proposed battery energy storage facilities during the Oct. 21 planning group meeting and approved a resolution calling for restrictions on where such systems can be placed. Six members were absent from the planning group meeting that night while the other nine members voted to support the resolution. Letters accompanying the resolution will be sent to relevant government agencies. The resolution requests that battery energy storage system facilities not be placed near...
