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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SAN DIEGO - The Surfrider Foundation released its annual Clean Water Report on Friday, March 22, detailing the measures the organization has taken to improve water quality in San Diego County and quell sewage contamination of local shorelines. The report gives an update on the organization's Blue Water Task Force as well as analysis of water quality case studies in Depoe Bay, Oregon; Oahu, Hawaii; Palm Beach County, Florida; and San Diego. The Blue Water Task Force, Surfrider's volunteer water testing group, has increased its...
The Fallbrook Girls Rugby Club U18 team got the club season off to a rousing start with a 56-5 victory over Brantford Collegiate Institute and Vocational School (BCI) from Brantford, Ontario, Canada on Saturday, March 9 at Fallbrook High School. BCI is currently on a tour of California and scheduled a game with the Warriors during the tour. In order to make the visit special, the Warriors added a bonus Prom Dress Rugby game that occurred after the match. Senior Nathalie Celis...
SAN DIEGO - The University of San Diego confirmed on Wednesday, March 20 that former head men's basketball coach Lamont Smith and two others connected to the school were implicated in what authorities have described as the largest-ever college admissions cheating scandal. USD released the information after the U.S. Department of Justice modified its gag order on the school. The university did not release the names of the two other people involved in the scandal, but said one is a current student and the other a prospective st...
SAN DIEGO - The California State University Board of Trustees announced the appointment on Wendnesday, March 20 of Ellen Neufeldt as president of the San Marcos campus. Neufeldt will become the university's fourth president when she takes over in July. She is currently the vice president of student engagement and enrollment services at Old Dominion University in Virginia. CSU officials had searched for and interviewed candidates for the Cal State San Marcos presidency since November. "Dr. Neufeldt has been a visionary leader...
SAN DIEGO - The San Diego County Department of the Medical Examiner released 22 years worth of death record data on Tuesday, March 19 in a searchable public internet portal. The records include accidental deaths, homicides, suicides, in-custody deaths and sudden natural deaths, all of which were reported to the medical examiner's office between 1997 and the third quarter of 2018. According to the county, the portal makes more than 59,000 death records publicly available. The records are available as raw data sets as well as...
SAN DIEGO - The Resource Conservation District of Greater San Diego County announced on Tuesday, March 19 that it is offering seven $1,000 scholarships to local high school seniors. The organization is making the scholarships available to graduating high school students who plan to pursue higher education in resource conservation, environmental sciences or agriculture. This is the 30th year that the Resource Conservation District has offered scholarships to students planning to enter the resource conservation industry....
Authorities identified a Fallbrook man who was killed in a motorcycle crash Sat. March 16, in Oceanside. Anthony Richard Duarte, 58, was riding northbound on El Camino Real when he lost control of his motorcycle and struck a concrete sign, according to Oceanside police. The accident occurred around 2 a.m. Saturday near Camino Town and Country Shopping Center. Duarte was thrown onto the road, where emergency personnel found him with severe trauma. No other vehicles were reportedly involved in the accident. Despite life-saving...
VISTA - A 36-year-old man was behind bars on Tuesday, March 19 on suspicion of stabbing a man and a dog in Vista, authorities said. It happened shortly before 11:10 p.m. Monday at a residence on Calle Jules south of East Bobier Drive, San Diego County Sheriff's Lt. David Perkins said. The circumstances leading up to the stabbing were not immediately clear, but the suspect and the victim were family members, Perkins said. Paramedics took the victim to Palomar Medical Center in Escondido for treatment of his injuries, which...
ESCONDIDO - The San Diego Zoo's Safari Park hosted a birthday celebration on Tuesday, March 19 for Joanne, one of the gorillas in its Gorilla Forest habitat. The Safari Park is celebrating Joanne's fifth birthday, a significant milestone after Joanne dealt with complications that sent her to the hospital for 11 days shortly after her birth by emergency C-section. Since then, she has fully recovered and now must learn what is required of a juvenile in a gorilla troop. "Each gorilla's status in the troop is an important one,...
FALLBROOK – Mark the calendar for a new event that is part of the Fallbrook Chamber of Commerce’s Wine & A Bite Art Walk series Friday, April 5, from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Guests will taste, stroll and nibble their way throughout the downtown area. They can stop in and out of businesses to taste food and sample beer while seeing artists in action as well as viewing featured art exhibits. Admission also includes a special souvenir tasting glass. The food will focus on the potato and the natural pairing of it with craft bee...
ESCONDIDO - Cal Fire and Caltrans dedicated a section of Interstate 15 on Saturday, March 16 to Cory Iverson, a 32-year-old fire engineer who died in December 2017 while fighting the Thomas Fire. Iverson had served with Cal Fire for more than eight years when he died of burns and smoke inhalation while battling the fire, the largest in state history at the time. Iverson left behind a wife, Ashley, and two daughters, Evie and Taylor. After Cory's death, a GoFundMe campaign raised more than $700,000 for the Iverson family....
The Carriage Players of the Fallbrook Woman's Club are performing their latest mystery luncheon, “Murder at the Earl of Grey’s Hound Manor,” Saturday, April 6, at 11 a.m., from left, front row, Sharon Stika, Mary Vitrano, Diane Jansen and Sharon Drucker; back row, Karen Feyler, Lee Johnson, Judie Erickson and Kathy Simmons. Their clubhouse is at 238 W. Mission Road. Cost is $25. For tickets, call (310) 569-1905 or visit fallbrookwomansclub.org....
Jake Kruger Crime Prevention Specialist There are numerous phone call scams occurring these days, and the San Diego Sheriff’s Department wants to remind residents to be cautious of scammers trying to deceive them. A common scam out there right now is the Social Security number suspension scam. The sheriff’s department wants to let everyone know that their Social Security Number cannot be suspended. If anyone receives a call like this one, just hang up. Other common scams involve someone pretending to be a grandchild, the IRS...
FALLBROOK – Albertsons in Fallbrook is hosting a blood drive in partnership with the San Diego Blood Bank Monday, March 25, from 1-6 p.m. in their parking lot at 1133 S. Mission Road in Fallbrook. Anyone 17 and older, who weighs at least 114 pounds and is in good health may be eligible to donate blood. A good meal and plenty of fluids are recommended before donation. All donors must show picture identification. Donors are encouraged to schedule an appointment to donate, but walk-ins are welcome. To schedule an appointment o...
A jobs-housing balanced community is one in which residents can both live and work without having to leave the area. Implicit in the concept is a mix of housing types to accommodate households and workers of a broad range of income categories that reflect the community. Jobs-housing balance also refers to the distribution of employment relative to the distribution of workers within a given geographic area. A community is considered balanced when these distributions are...
SAN DIEGO – San Diego County Treasurer-Tax Collector Dan McAllister announced bidder registration has started for the 2019 online property tax auction, featuring 723 properties. Bidders must register by April 18 to participate “It’s easier than ever to own a piece of heaven here in San Diego County, whether that be a timeshare, land or home,” McAllister said. “I encourage everyone to sign up for our e-notifications at www.sdttc.com to get important deadline reminders and updates about the auction.” Anyone around the world c...
Sales of previously owned single-family homes and attached properties like condominiums and townhomes ticked up last month after three straight months of double-digit losses, according to data released by the Greater San Diego Association of Realtors. Monthly sales of single-family homes jumped 4.4 percent from 1,193 in January to 1,246 in February. Month-over-month sales of attached properties increased even more, a 14 percent jump from 559 in January to 637 in February....
While there wasn't a huge turn out at the Fallbrook Regional Health District's public forum Wednesday, March 6, the board's directors gained input from those who did show up. The forum was held for the public to bring their own maps and opinions on how the health district should go about dividing its election system into five new zones. Fallbrook Regional Health District is voluntarily moving away from an at-large election system for the 2020 election to avoid potential...
San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond of District 5 plans to address the growing homeless population in Fallbrook, posing increased watch by law enforcement and continued engagement with local leaders, he said. In an interview with the Village News, March 6, at Desmond’s North County office in Vista, the former San Marcos mayor discussed some of his top priorities. Among them was the issue of homelessness, which has become a hot topic for downtown business owners and some r...
The Rainbow Municipal Water District is expected to adopt new water rates at the March 26 board meeting. Rainbow’s board voted 4-0, Jan. 22, with Michael Mack absent, to set the March 26 hearing date including the 1 p.m. starting time. If the new rates are adopted, they will take effect April 1. “This is our annual rate increase hearing,” Rainbow general manager Tom Kennedy. In November 1996, the state’s voters passed Proposition 218, which requires a public vote on benefit assessments. Proposition 218 exempts water agencie...
The Fallbrook campus of Palomar College is within the Bonsall Unified School District, and the Bonsall district and the Palomar Community College District will be analyzing the possibility of an arrangement for Bonsall High School to operate on part of Palomar College’s Fallbrook site. A joint meeting of the Bonsall Unified School District and Palomar Community College District boards was held March 5 at the Fallbrook branch of Palomar College. Although no vote was taken, both boards along with the public speakers favored f...
San Bernardino County prosecutors rested their case against Charles "Chase" Ray Merritt, Monday, March 4. Merritt is accused of killing the McStay family, Joseph, Summer and their two young boys who lived in the Lake Rancho Viejo housing development east of Interstate 15 in Fallbrook. Merritt's defense team motioned the court for a judgment of acquittal after the prosecution closed its case. "At this time the defense would make an 1118.1 motion," Merritt's defense team said....
FALLBROOK – Watercolor artist Craig Anderson will be the guest demonstrator Saturday, March 16, at the Fallbrook Art Association meeting at the Fallbrook Woman's Club, 238 W Mission Road. The association meets every third Saturday of the month. It begins at 8:45 a.m. with a 9:15 a.m. critique session done by the guest artist. Members are encouraged to bring one piece of their artwork to be critiqued by the guest artist. A 10:15 business meeting is followed by the guest a...
BONSALL – The Bonsall Woman’s Club March meeting introduced the Volunteer of the Year award and announced the winners in the Palomar Art Festival. This year’s Volunteer of the Year, Bev York has heart and so much more, giving over 240 volunteer hours in 2018. York joined the Bonsall Woman’s Club in 2011 and began serving as third vice president of programs. In subsequent years, she served as first vice president and dean of chairmen and as the club’s parliamen...
SAN DIEGO – The San Diego County Public Defender’s Office wants residents’ help celebrating the region’s “Remarkable Teens.” Do you know a teen who is phenomenal at something they do? Perhaps, they are a great artist, photographer, actor, dancer or musician – or someone who excels at nontraditional sports such as skateboarding, surfing or snowboarding. Maybe, the nominee applies their creativity to inventions, entrepreneurship, technology or fashion design. Or they are an activist, a campus leader, is civically involved, doe...