Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
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Nine people were displaced following a fire at a Fallbrook home Saturday morning. The blaze broke out a little after 8 a.m. at a home in the 700 block of East Alvarado Street, North County Fire Capt. John Choi said. The fire started in the attic of the home, which is a one-story residence with a second-story addition, Choi said. None of the occupants were injured, but the Red Cross was called in to assist all nine adults in finding shelter. Choi said the fire was contained by 8:38 a.m. Firefighters from Camp Pendleton and...
A car accident involving an overturned vehicle and a damaged fire hydrant caused traffic delays on South Mission Road Friday afternoon. The crash happened about noon in the 1500 block of South Mission, according to North County Fire Department Capt. John Choi. A single vehicle sheared off a hydrant, causing "a significant water flow" on South Mission, Choi said. One person in the vehicle suffered a minor injury. South Mission had to be partially closed due to the water...
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - San Diego County remained under a red-flag warning for extreme fire danger Thursday, as gusty Santa Ana winds and low humidity combined to heighten the risk of wildfires and more than 70,000 local utility customers — including more than 4,000 in and around Fallbrook — were still without power Thursday afternoon, their electricity shut off as a precaution. Meanwhile, the Fallbrook Union Elementary School District announced Thursday morning that classes will be virtual-only for the day, following that up lat...
A Democratic majority is locked in for the San Diego County Board of Supervisors after the Nov. 3 election, but it still remains to be seen which of two Republicans running in one supervisorial district will claim victory. Currently, Republicans have a 4-1 majority on the technically nonpartisan Board of Supervisors, but one seat in the District 1 supervisorial district was already guaranteed to flip to the Democrats in 2020, with no Republicans on the ballot after the primary. Nora Vargas won that seat in November, beating...
After some effort, firefighters in Fallbrook were able to extinguish a fire Sunday night, Nov. 29, at a residence on West Fallbrook Street. The fire, which broke out at 8:05 p.m. at a commercial building that had been converted to a home just west of Main Avenue, left two occupants with some smoke inhalation injuries but killed no one, North County Fire Capt. John Choi said. According to Choi, the fire engulfed an area underneath the home's front decking and threatened to...
San Diego County is continuing to report record numbers of coronavirus cases, and the Fallbrook area remains just as affected by the accelerating pandemic. The weekly average case rate for the 92028 ZIP code – which also includes De Luz and Rainbow – was 12.2 cases per 100,000 for the most recent week available, Nov. 11-18. The case rate had been 8.2 cases per 100,000 the week before that. There were 42 new positive coronavirus cases in 92028 between Nov. 11-18, reflecting a 6.6% positivity rate and a significant jump fro...
After some effort, firefighters in Fallbrook were able to extinguish a fire Sunday night at a residence on West Fallbrook Street. The fire, which broke out at 8:05 a.m. at a commercial building that had been converted to a home just west of Main Avenue, left two occupants with some smoke inhalation injuries but killed no one, North County Fire Capt. John Choi said. According to Choi, the fire engulfed an area underneath the home's front decking and threatened to extend to the...
A ground-breaking ceremony was held Tuesday, Nov. 10, at a planned Temecula Valley Lexus dealership, a Temecula official said Nov. 19. Grading began for the approximately 54,000-square-foot dealership, according to Christine Damko, economic development manager for Temecula. The dealership will sit on nearly 5 acres at DLR Drive, near Ynez Road, and will be part of the Temecula Valley Toyota ownership family. "We are thrilled to bring Lexus to the Temecula Valley," Tom Rudnai,...
Coronavirus cases are on the rise again in San Diego County, with a record-high 1,478 new COVID-19 infections and two new deaths being reported Saturday, Nov. 21. The number of new infections was lower on Sunday, Nov. 22, the most recent date for which information was available at press time, with 939 new cases, but that was still the 12th consecutive day that more than 600 new coronavirus cases were reported by the county. The county also reported eight new deaths on Nov. 20 – there have now been a total of 69,231 c...
Firefighters knocked down a blaze at a Fallbrook residence Friday evening. The fire was reported a little after 5 p.m. at a home in the 100 block of North Wisconsin Avenue, according to North County Fire Department Capt. John Choi. The blaze damaged a kitchenette area of the home, but firefighters were able to prevent it from spreading beyond that, Choi said. The fire was contained by 5:17 p.m. No injuries were reported, as no one was in the home at the time of the fire,...
A small single-engine plane crashed near the Fallbrook Airpark Wednesday morning, Nov. 11, leaving the pilot with injuries. The crash was reported at 9:51 a.m. near the airpark along South Mission Road, according to North County Fire Capt. John Choi. The plane was having mechanical issues and came down for an emergency landing but ran out of runway space and went into an open field, according to information from Choi. The plane did not catch fire, and the single occupant was...
Tom Metzger, the white supremacist who lived in Fallbrook for decades, died earlier this month. According to Metzger’s White Aryan Resistance webpage, the former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard died Nov. 4 in Hemet at the age of 82. A short obituary to Metzger that ran in the San Diego Union-Tribune Nov. 10 stated he lived in Fallbrook for 40 years; he worked as a television repairman during his time in town. Metzger later returned to his hometown in Indiana, then came back to California in the years before his death, according t...
Fallbrook Union Elementary School District administrators are planning to send some students back to classrooms four days a week at the end of this month. Currently, FUESD is in “phase one” of its reopening plan, with most students attending school in-person two days a week in a “cohort” model, with one group in classrooms on Mondays and Wednesdays and a second group in classrooms on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and with students participating in virtual learning otherwise. Classrooms reopened in that format on Oct. 5. The pla...
Fallbrook Union Elementary School District administrators are planning to send some students back to classrooms four days a week at the end of this month. Currently, FUESD is in “phase one” of its reopening plan, with most students attending school in-person two days a week in a “cohort” model, with one group in classrooms on Mondays and Wednesdays and a second group in classrooms on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and with students participating in virtual learning otherwise. Classrooms reopened in that format on Oct. 5. The pla...
It wasn't the decisive walloping Democrats were hoping for. And, in a country that has grown used to media organizations projecting presidential winners on Election night or soon after, the lengthy counting process of large numbers of mail-in ballots this year created an unsettling days-long purgatory for both sides. But the Associated Press, CNN, NBC, Fox News and other media outlets projected Joe Biden to be the 46th president of the United States, Nov. 7, after it became cl...
A small single-engine plane crashed near the Fallbrook Airpark Wednesday morning, leaving the pilot with injuries. The crash was reported at 9:51 a.m. near the airpark along South Mission Road, according to North County Fire Capt. John Choi. The plane was having mechanical issues and came down for an emergency landing, but ran out of runway space and went into an open field, according to information from Choi. The plane did not catch fire, and the single occupant was taken to...
Tom Metzger, the white supremacist who lived in Fallbrook for decades, died earlier this month. According to Metzger’s White Aryan Resistance webpage, the former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard died Nov. 4 in Hemet at the age of 82. A short obituary to Metzger that ran in the San Diego Union-Tribune Nov. 10 stated he lived in Fallbrook for 40 years; he worked as a television repairman during his time in town. Metzger later returned to his hometown in Indiana, then came back to California in the years before his death, according t...
Tom Metzger, the white supremacist who lived in Fallbrook for decades, died earlier this month. According to Metzger’s White Aryan Resistance webpage, the former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard died Nov. 4 in Hemet at the age of 82. A short obituary to Metzger that ran in the San Diego Union-Tribune Nov. 10 stated he lived in Fallbrook for 40 years; he worked as a television repairman during his time in town. Metzger later returned to his hometown in Indiana, then came back to California in the years before his death, according t...
The San Diego County Sheriff's Department on Tuesday said the death of an 18-year-old Fallbrook man last week has been determined to be a homicide. The county medical examiner's office has completed an autopsy on Nicolas Ramirez, who died Friday, Oct. 30, and found his death to have been caused by multiple stab bounds, according to sheriff's Lt. Chad Boudreau. Deputies responded to the 440 block of Ammunition Road at about 10:40 p.m. Oct. 30 to help the North County Fire Department with the injured man. "When deputies...
Editor's note: Village News goes to print on Mondays, so results of the Nov. 3 election were not known at press time. Election Day was Nov. 3, but this year, California voters had the opportunity to cast their ballots even before then. While voters in the past had to request a mail-in ballot, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill in June to send all registered voters a ballot through the mail in order to allow Californians to limit their potential exposure to the coronavirus. And...
San Diego County was a stronghold of the Republican Party for a significant chunk of the last century, with the Republican candidate for president carrying the county in all but one election from 1948 through 2004, when George W. Bush beat John Kerry in San Diego County by a healthy margin of about 52% to 46% (Bill Clinton eked out a narrow plurality over George H.W. Bush in 1992 with Ross Perot in the mix). But just four years after the junior Bush carried San Diego County...
A pedestrian was struck and killed by a car just after midnight Sunday, Nov. 1, in Fallbrook. The deadly crash happened at about 12:15 a.m. on South Mission Road near Peppertree Lane. According to California Highway Patrol Officer Mark Latulippe, a 53-year-old Fallbrook man was crossing South Mission from the east side of the roadway when he ran into the path of a northbound Toyota Camry driven by a 58-year-old man, also from Fallbrook. The Camry struck the pedestrian, who was then taken to Temecula Valley Hospital in...
Power was shut off to nearly 3,000 utility customers in the Fallbrook area amid increased fire danger as Village News was going to press Monday, Oct. 26. San Diego Gas and Electric on Saturday, Oct. 24, had warned more than 21,000 ratepayers in northern San Diego County and southern Orange County that they were at risk of having their power turned off Oct. 26 and 27 if wind conditions warrant. "Customers who were notified should be prepared to activate their personal...
With Fallbrook Union Elementary School District Governing Board members Siegrid Stillman and Lisa Masten not running for re-election, that leaves two vacancies on the board this November. And while Stillman and Masten were elected to their seats at-large – that is, representing the entire district – 2020 will be the first year in which FUESD elects its board members on a trustee area system. The seats in trustee areas 2 and 3 are the ones up for election this year. Vil...
Sheriff's deputies in Fallbrook were able to quickly nab a burglary suspect last week when the man whose business was being ransacked called authorities to report he had caught the alleged culprit on video in the middle of the act. It happened early the morning of Oct. 20. Dale Birmingham, owner of Supertek Computer Service on West College Street – and, we must note, husband of a Reeder Media advertising executive – woke up that morning at 5 a.m., as usual, he said. But as...