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Also serving the communities of De Luz, Rainbow, Camp Pendleton, Pala and Pauma
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SAN DIEGO - The San Diego Padres will open their 2019 season today against the San Francisco Giants with events and pageantry in and around Petco Park. San Diego's East Village Association will begin its free two-day Opening Day Block Party at 10 a.m., featuring live music, an interactive game zone, a micro-brew beer garden and more than 30 food trucks lining the streets adjacent to Petco Park. The party will continue until 2:30 p.m. and resume Friday at noon. The ninth annual block party will take place on J Street between...
WARNER SPRINGS - A British balloonist and scientist who set 79 world ballooning records died following a balloon-related accident near Warner Springs, it was reported on Thursday, March 28. Julian Richard Nott, 74, was injured Sunday afternoon in an accident several hours after his pressurized, high-altitude cabin and balloon had a soft landing north of Warner Springs and east of Palomar Mountain, according to an obituary on his website and San Diego County Sheriff's officials. Nott's partner of 30 years was by his side when...
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Senior Caleb Battle has a goal of someday becoming a commissioned officer in the U.S. Navy. The Fallbrook High School JROTC member has leadership qualities that he hopes will help the 2019 Warriors boys' lacrosse team to a successful season. "Caleb is now a senior, and I feel he has matured as an amazing young man," Warriors coach Mike Zinniger said. "He is not only a great lacrosse player, but he is polite, respectful of all coaches and parents and a mentor to all the...
Last year Rancho Buena Vista High School’s boys’ tennis team hosted Fallbrook High School and defeated the Warriors by a 12-6 score. This year Fallbrook’s season opener was at home, Feb. 26, against Rancho Buena Vista, and Fallbrook began the season with a 14-4 victory over the Longhorns. “RBV is a D-I team,” Fallbrook coach Bill Lenaway said. Playoff divisions are based on rankings which use a weighted average based on win-loss record, strength of schedule, and playoff wins over the past three seasons. Fallbrook, whose sea...
Fallbrook High School freshman Jocelyn Jones obtained CIF meet automatic qualifying times in all four of her races at her first high school swim meet, Feb. 27, at Fallbrook High School. Jones won the 50-yard freestyle with an automatic qualifying time of 25.62 seconds. Although she finished second in the 100-yard butterfly her time of 1:02.81 is an automatic standard. Jones anchored the 200-yard freestyle relay team which won the race in 1:47.81 to give Fallbrook automatic CIF meet status in that event and also anchored the...
The first Fallbrook High School boys swim meet of 2019 was also the first high school meet for freshman Doug Pearce, who not only won all four of his races including relays but posted CIF meet automatic qualifying times in three of those Feb. 27 events. Pearce won the 200-yard individual medley and 100-yard butterfly individual events and was part of Fallbrook’s winning 200-yard medley relay and 400-yard freestyle relay quartets. “I think that Doug has been working really hard coming into the high school,” Fallbrook coach...
SAN DIEGO - President Donald Trump approved a disaster declaration on Tuesday, March 26 for the La Jolla Band of Luiseno Indians due to damage to tribal land caused by heavy rains, flooding and mudslides last month. Trump granted federal aid to the La Jolla Band of Luiseno Indians to assist the tribe's efforts to repair or replace damaged facilities and to help with the removal of debris from the 8,541-acre reservation, which is located off State Highway 76, about 25 miles east of Escondido and 60 miles northeast of San...
SAN DIEGO - Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, D-San Diego, co-introduced legislation on Tuesday, March 26 to combat falsified medical exemptions that allow children to avoid vaccinations against illnesses like measles. According to Gonzalez and Sen. Richard Pan, a pediatrician, medical exemptions have spiked since the 2015 passage of SB 277, which outlawed the use of personal belief exemptions to allow children to avoid vaccines. While immunization rates in California have gone up since SB 277's passage, medical exemptions have...
BONSALL - Authorities on Tuesday, March 26 identified a 28-year-old Escondido man who was killed in a motorcycle crash on a Bonsall road. Michael Smith was riding a 2001 Kawasaki Ninja eastbound on West Lilac Road around 6:05 p.m. Monday, March 25 when he attempted to pass a vehicle near Birdsong Drive, east of Interstate 15, according to the California Highway Patrol. He lost control of the motorcycle, which went up an embankment and overturned, throwing him onto the...
SAN DIEGO - While government spending on local homeless services has dramatically increased throughout the county over the last decade, the effect of that spending is difficult to quantify, according to a report released on Tuesday, March 26 by the San Diego Taxpayers Educational Foundation. Each of the county's jurisdictions does a poor job of tracking homelessness data points such as use of homeless services, according to the SDTEF, the research arm of the San Diego County Taxpayers Association. Because of the poor data...
SAN DIEGO - The San Diego County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, March 26 directed staff to move forward with a plan that advocates say will allow the criminal justice system to better handle residents with mental health issues. By a 4-0 vote -- Supervisor Greg Cox was absent -- the board directed Chief Administrative Officer Helen Robbins-Meyer to develop a plan that: -- will include timely follow-up care and case management for those in a crisis; -- establish centers providing 24/7 walk-in mental health and substance...
DE LUZ - A fire broke out in the afternoon on Monday, March 25 in a citrus grove in the hills of De Luz, blackening about two acres before it was partially contained. The non-injury brush fire was reported about 3:15 p.m. in the area of El Prado and La Vella roads, in the unincorporated community of De Luz, according to the Riverside County Fire Department. Multiple engine crews and a Cal Fire water-dropping helicopter were sent to the location, encountering flames burning in the grove and threatening to spread into...
FALLBROOK – Fallbrook Music Society brings an internationally renowned program to the community Sunday, March 24. The 3 p.m. concert features Finnish musicians, Jussi Makkonen on cello and Nazig Azezian on piano and will be held in the community room of the Fallbrook Public Library. The concert is free to the general public. No tickets are required. "Fallbrook Music Society is thrilled to be able to bring Jussi and Nazig all the way from Finland to play for our community. Thei...
TEMECULA ─ Ambrosia will perform at the Old Town Temecula Community Theater Thursday, April 25, at 8 p.m. The band, known and loved by many fans since the 1970s, has been nominated five-times for a Grammy. The ensemble is exploring new musical territory and bringing their musical performances to the Temecula stage. In 1970, four young musicians, Joseph Puerta, Christopher North, David Pack and Burleigh Drummond from the South Bay area of Los Angeles, came together to create a...
TEMECULA ─ The Temecula Valley Museum will host the exhibit “Inspired Excellence: The Story of Marie Curie and Lise Meitner” from March 22 to April 14, in honor of Women’s History Month. This exhibit reveals how these two women scientists endured incredible challenges during an era when females were not welcome in the field of scientific discovery, despite a lack of financial support, unsophisticated academic facilities and little recognition of their endeavors. A special event, “History Meets Science,” will be held in con...
TEMECULA ─ The 2019 Temecula Art & Street Painting Festival will be held Saturday, June 8, and Sunday, June 9. Art exhibitor and chalk artist applications are both available online now at www.TemeculaCA.gov/ArtFest. “We encourage our residents and visitors to discover the art of living in Temecula while these unique artisans express themselves creatively and show how much they #LOVETemecula,” Mayor Mike Naggar said. “This family-friendly event is a great way to meet, greet and support the creative and talented artists...
At the Monday, March 11, meeting of the Fallbrook Union High School District, board map 5A was adopted as the new voting boundaries for the district. The map was selected by the board from a pool of seven proposed conceptual maps in a process that began back Nov. 5, 2018, when the board initiated the process of transitioning to by-district elections as dictated by the California Voting Rights Act. Before the vote, board members were currently elected in at-large elections, whe...
Megan Johnson McCullough Special to Village News A slice of pizza is the popular pick to satisfy so many people's taste buds. Well, let's face it most times it is more than one slice. Where did this dish come from? How has it made its way into everyone's homes, parties and events? Pizza started its legacy in Naples. Naples, back in 1700s and 1800s, was a popular waterfront city in Italy; however, it was known for its high population of the working poor, called lazzaroni. The w...
A packed crowd attended the Fallbrook Union High School board meeting Monday, March 11. There were a host of topics on the agenda that night, but many community members showed up to voice strong opinions for bringing the International Baccalaureate program to Fallbrook. After hearing from a number of parents, teachers and students, the board voted and agreed 6-0 to move forward with the process to implement the IB program. According to a FUHSD press release sent out after the...
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors approved creating a new board to enhance the ability of the county to prevent and respond to child abuse and neglect Tuesday, March 12. The action dissolved the Child Abuse Prevention Coordinating Council and replaced that body with a new Child and Family Strengthening Advisory Board that will have broad oversight of the county’s child welfare system. The county’s child welfare services investigates reports of suspected child abuse and...
While there was a slight dip in the number of influenza cases reported in the region last week, influenza activity is still moderate, the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency announced. A total of 564 lab-confirmed influenza cases were reported last week, which was 54 fewer than the week before. Two new flu fatalities were reported last week, bringing this season’s total to 47. In comparison, 301 San Diegans had died at the same time last year. The newly reported flu deaths were of a 96-year-old woman South Count...
A new San Diego County program is offering relief to those caring for local residents with Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia. The new Respite Voucher Program, started at the request of county board of supervisors Chairwoman Dianne Jacob, provides family members and others who need a break with a voucher to cover half the cost of hiring a fill-in caregiver. “As the number of San Diegans with Alzheimer’s disease grows, so does the strain on many families as they struggle to help their loved one deal with this deva...
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The daughter and live-in girlfriend of accused murderer Charles "Chase" Merritt testified on behalf of Merritt, hoping to convince the jury that Merritt isn't guilty 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 in 2010. Sara Taylor Jarvis, now 24, was the first witness called by the defense and was pushed by the prosecution who contended that Merritt talked to...