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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Two Fallbrook High School wrestlers placed among the top eight at the Jimmy Hamada Classic tournament, Dec. 6-7, at La Costa Canyon High School, and eight of the 11 Warriors who competed qualified for the second-day rounds of the tournament. “The team performed really well there,” Fallbrook coach Cristian Vera said. “The La Costa Canyon tournament is one of the toughest tournaments in the state. We want to be as competitive as we possibly can, and the boys did just that.” Despite not fielding grapplers in every weight...
While 2019 seemed to pass in the blink of an eye, there were many notable happenings in Fallbrook and Bonsall during those 12 months. Weather-wise, the year started out much the same way as it ended, wet and cold. More streets flooded in February than in recent storms which affected several holiday events. The biggest crime story of the year was the trial of Charles Merritt for the killing of the McStay family. While the trial took place in San Bernardino, the family was from Fallbrook and went missing almost 10 years ago....
The Fallbrook Union High School boys varsity basketball team continues to roll through its 2019-20 preseason schedule. With eight wins on the season, they are one win away from matching the program's highest win total in the past five years. The last time the Warriors had a winning record was following the 2014-15 season when Mike West's Warriors went 17-12. This year, at 8-2, Ryan Smith's Warriors are looking like they will have similar success. That's no small feat...
Sorry but skewed facts are crazy to many of us as we have to consider the source of that information. When fact checked and vetted many of these are biased and skewed as I am being polite. Forced Birth movement...is that the label you have put on anyone who believes abortion is murder and barbaric in this day and age? Last I checked it was against the law to fire someone from their job who was pregnant so where is the loss of a paycheck? I guess if you are a stripper that might be a bit of a problem dancing around a pole. I...
Recently you may have seen news reports about Facebook accusing The Epoch Times of being linked to wrongdoing by another media outlet. We want to explain what the fuss is about. Facebook’s statement, Dec. 20, which intended to expose deceptive social media practices by a website called “The BL,” attempted to tie that site to Epoch Media Group, which includes The Epoch Times in its network of companies. This claim has been thoroughly debunked by Epoch Times publisher Stephen Gregory. “EMG has never been affiliated with BL...
The Epoch Times has been banned from buying ads on Facebook, not for their right-wing content, but because they were using hundreds of fake accounts with facial images created by artificial intelligence, thus violating Facebook requirements for transparency in political advertising. However, I noticed that The Epoch Times still contributes weekly articles to our own Village News. Jim Dooley...
It’s been a fantastic first year as a San Diego County Supervisor and while I’ve learned a lot, none of it would be possible without you all. We’ve made some great strides at SANDAG, on behavioral health and Veterans Affairs as I mentioned last week. Locally, we initiated action with Chairwoman Jacob to dedicate $28 million to unincorporated area road improvements and maintenance. As we look ahead to 2020, I wanted to highlight some items we will be looking at. While we’ve...
We all know Fallbrook is a dangerous place to be a pedestrian, but I witnessed such a close call as a driver, I decided to at least pen a letter to remind my fellow Fallbrookians that pedestrians in crosswalks, marked or unmarked, have right of way over cars. One of the best-marked crosswalks in Fallbrook, at Aviation and South Main Avenue in front of Trupiano’s, seems to be both the most disregarded and the most dangerous. My husband and father-in-law were witnesses when a pedestrian died there early in 2019, mowed down b...
Forty-eight Fallbrook road segments, six Bonsall streets, five Rainbow road segments and one Pala road will be resurfaced under contracts authorized during the Dec. 11 San Diego County Board of Supervisors meeting. The supervisors' 4-0 vote, with Kristin Gaspar absent, authorized the advertisement for bid and subsequent award of construction contracts for asphalt concrete overlay and slurry seal treatments covering a countywide total of 143 centerline miles of county-maintained road and 31.4 miles of Permanent Road Division...
The sublease surcharge for airports owned and operated by the county of San Diego has been eliminated. A 4-0 San Diego County Board of Supervisors vote Dec. 10, with Kristin Gaspar absent, eliminated the surcharge for commercial subleases. The supervisors' action also found the elimination of the sublease surcharge to be categorically exempt from California Environmental Quality Act review. "After looking at similar airports, we decided to get rid of the unnecessary charge," said Supervisor Jim Desmond. "By eliminating the...
There have been no Fallbrook Union High School Girls Varsity Basketball teams with a winning overall record at the school since Dan Bachman’s 2014-15 team went 17-8. So far this season, Jessica Ramirez’s Warriors are 5-4 on the young season and making strides. The Warriors had to be feeling good coming into tournament games with West Hills Saturday, Dec. 28, and Valhalla Monday, Dec. 30, (games played after press time) having just won big against Santana, taking down the Sul...
After graduating from Bonsall High School in 2019 Max Collier became the first former Bonsall High School cross-country runner to compete in college, and his Palomar College season ended at the state meet. “It was very fun to continue my cross-country career,” Collier said. Collier said that being the first former Bonsall High School runner to compete in college makes him a role model for others. “It feels great to be one of the first,” he said. Hugh Gerhardt is Palomar College’s men’s cross-country coach. “We met on campus...
Two of the 15 scheduled Del Mar Thoroughbred Club fall meet dates were canceled due to rain and protesters seeking to end horse racing targeted the Bing Crosby Season meet in demonstrations and in the media, but Del Mar Thoroughbred Club general manager Joe Harper thought that the Bing Crosby Season meet was successful. “It’s the highest daily handle we’ve had in any of these meets,” Harper said. The California Horse Racing Board gave Del Mar a fall meet in 2014. “I think it went well,” Harper said of the 2019 fall meet....
Charlotte Cuthbertson The Epoch Times As the number of family units from Central America dwindles, due to new policies taking effect at the U.S.–Mexico border, smuggling organizations are looking elsewhere for new business. "They saw that we were making progress toward stemming the flow of illegal immigration from the Northern Triangle countries – really taking billions of dollars out of their pockets – and they shifted," Mark Morgan, acting commissioner of Customs and Border...
Lisa Marie Pane The Associated Press The first one occurred 19 days into the new year when a man used an ax to kill four family members including his infant daughter. Five months later, 12 people were killed in a workplace shooting in Virginia. Twenty-two more died at a Walmart in El Paso in August. A database compiled by The Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University showed that there were more mass killings in 2019 than any year dating back to at least the...
The Associated Press Special to Valley News Navy SEALs described their platoon leader, retired Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher, as "evil," "toxic" and "perfectly OK with killing anybody that was moving," in video footage of interviews obtained by The New York Times. Gallagher's war crimes case earlier this year gained national attention after President Donald Trump intervened on his behalf despite strong objections from Pentagon leaders who said the president's move...
On Thursday, December 12, 2019, Joseph Donald Bator passed away with his wife Barbara by his side. Joe was born May 6, 1941, in Detroit, Michigan. The eldest of six, he was a proud alumnus of St. Mary's of Orchard Lake High School and Wayne State University. Joe enjoyed a distinguished career in the automobile industry working for Cadillac Motors in Detroit and then for the American Sunroof Corporation. After a 25-year career with ASC, he retired as President of Worldwide...
Katabella Roberts The Epoch Times The Pentagon warned members of the military against using mail-in DNA kits as they may pose a security risk, Yahoo said. An internal memo, co-signed by the Defense Department’s top intelligence official, was issued Dec. 20 and obtained by the publication. It warned that the kits are “largely unregulated” and that information collected by private companies could create a potential risk to military members. The memo also said that some DNA kit companies are targeting military personnel with...
Joyce M. Rosenberg The Associated Press A California law that makes it harder for companies to treat workers as independent contractors took effect Jan. 1, forcing small businesses in and outside the state to rethink their staffing. The law puts tough restrictions on who can be independent contractors or freelancers rather than employees. Supporters said it addresses inequities created by the growth of the gig economy, including the employment practices of ride-sharing...
Well, here we go again…another new year. The start of each new year brings a sense of excitement as people ponder both the new challenges and new opportunities the next 12 months will bring. And, it also reminds them of how precious time is. It is especially pertinent as a person approaches the end of their days. As Queen Elizabeth I famously offered while lying on her deathbed, “All of my possessions for a moment of time.” Each person will begin 2020 with exactly the same...
Calling all nonpartisan registered voters! If they vote by mail and want to vote for president, nonpartisan voters need to inform the Registrar of Voters which mail ballot they want by Jan. 6. Otherwise, the nonpartisan mail ballot will not show any presidential candidates. Several weeks ago, the registrar sent the county’s nearly 350,000 nonpartisan mail ballot voters a pre-paid return postcard requesting their selection of ballot options for the March 3 primary election. If a voter is registered nonpartisan and just s...
"A map? Who needs a map? We have GPS," I told my mother. But the GPS in the rental car was not working, and mom and I, intrepid travelers from California, were lost in Collierville, Tennessee – at about midnight on a narrow two-lane road with no lights to be seen. The narrow road narrowed even more – and then – as we rounded a tight curve – the headlights illuminated a massive sign: "Welcome to Mississippi." Mississippi? What happened to Tennessee? Mom and I laughed hysteri...
While wanting to see positive changes in your life isn't a bad idea, the way most new year's resolutions come together is usually complicated, often helps little and may even be harmful. Most of us are pretty bad at setting reasonable goals for ourselves. We usually think in terms of absolutes: "I'm going to lose 20 pounds next month." "I'm going to stop smoking now." "I'm going to get that job promotion this quarter." There are several problems with resolutions like these, the main one being that they seldom achieve...
Unintentional fentanyl overdose deaths in the San Diego region increased by 68% when comparing this year’s midyear data with the same period for 2018, statistics just released by the County Medical Examiner’s Office show. From January through June this year, there were 69 fentanyl deaths compared to 41 in the first six months of last year. Fentanyl is an illicit synthetic opioid that is 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine and 25 to 50 times stronger than heroin. The high-potency drug is lethal, even in tiny doses. “In t...
WASHINGTON – The Federal Communications Commission approved the use of 988 as a new, nationwide, 3-digit number for a suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline. This designation will help ease access to crisis services, reduce the stigma surrounding suicide and mental health conditions and ultimately save lives. Calls made to 988 will be directed to the existing National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, a national network of 163 crisis centers that is funded by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Substance Abu...
