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  • Girls tennis tunes up for season

    Updated Aug 27, 2019

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  • Padilla and Savin attend USA All-Americans XVs camp in Canada

    Jeff Pack|Updated Aug 27, 2019

    Fallbrook Girls Rugby Club's Tiahna Padilla and Abbey Savin were chosen to participate in USA Rugby's Girls High School All-American XVs camp in Canada Aug. 7-12. Padilla, who will be a sophomore at Fallbrook High, and Savin, a senior at Great Oak High School in Temecula, trained with more than 30 other top athletes from the western portion of the United States at the camp led by team manager Margaret Sharp and assistant coaches Sue Whitwell, Josie Ziluca and Tim Zern. The...

  • Sheriff's Log

    Updated Aug 27, 2019

    Aug. 5 Elbrook Drive Stolen vehicle Canonita Drive Trespassing Rainbow Heights Road Residential burglary Rainbow Creek Road Fraud Winter Haven Road Commercial burglary Las Vistas Road Discharge of a firearm Gird Road Residential burglary Blue Breton Drive Residential burglary Iowa Street Threat of violence Aug. 6 Ammunition Road Harassing phone calls Wilt Road Abandoned vehicle Industrial Way Commercial burglary West Fallbrook Street Spousal abuse South Vine Street Vandalism West Mission Road Fraud Palacio Norte Residential...

  • 7 healthy hacks for homemade school lunches

    Tom Christensen|Updated Aug 27, 2019

    County of San Diego Communications Office You're rushing off to work in the morning and still have to find time to make a doctor's appointment, sign permission slips for a field trip and drop the children off at school. Oh, and find time to pack the kids' lunches? You might think the easy option is to grab a prepackaged lunch or whip together a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and toss it in with a bag of chips and a snack cake. But we've got some tips from the County Health...

  • Alumni win water polo game

    Joe Naiman|Updated Aug 27, 2019

    Sixteen former Fallbrook High School water polo players returned to the Fallbrook High School pool Aug. 10 for the annual varsity-alumni game, and the alumni took a 21-9 victory over the varsity. "It's full-grown men against sophomore boys," said Fallbrook varsity coach Bill Richardson. "It's a combination of talented alumni and our squad right now." The varsity-alumni game took place two days before the start of school, so not all of Fallbrook's potential water polo players...

  • FLC's Native Plant Restoration Team works to preserve local beauty

    Jeff Pack|Updated Aug 27, 2019

    When visitors show up at the Los Jilgueros Preserve, a 46-acre preserve located in the heart of Fallbrook with more than 2 miles of looping trails, they likely have no idea the amount of weekly hard work that goes into maintaining the property's natural beauty. But if you want to know, just ask Diane Kennedy, Native Plant Restoration Team (NPRT) chairwoman. The team meets most Wednesday mornings at 8:30 a.m. in the main parking lot and typically work until 10 a.m. "The work ca...

  • REINS riders have fun with horse show

    Updated Aug 27, 2019

  • Gas leak forces closure of San Diego Zoo, other Balboa Park attractions

    City News Service|Updated Aug 22, 2019

    SAN DIEGO - A natural gas leak forced closures of the San Diego Zoo and several other Balboa Park attractions on Thursday, Aug. 22 and prompted road closures in the busy tourist district. The hazardous fumes began wafting through the landmark city park north of downtown San Diego about 8 a.m., when a construction worker accidentally broke a 4-inch-diameter utility line in the 2900 block of Zoo Drive, fire department spokeswoman Monica Munoz said. Authorities closed the main entrance to the zoo and its parking lot as a...

  • Lyft expands Camp Pendleton ride-booking pilot project

    City News Service|Updated Aug 21, 2019

    SAN DIEGO - The ride-hailing company Lyft announced an expansion on Wednesday, Aug. 21 of its pilot program at Camp Pendleton that streamlines access to the U.S. Marine Corps base for military members, their families, and civilians who work at the military installation. Lyft launched the pilot program in collaboration with Marine Corps Community Services last year to make it easier for people living on the base to book a ride with a company like Lyft or Uber, which previously required security clearance to enter the base....

  • Padilla and Savin attend USA All-Americans XVs camp in Canada

    Jeff Pack, Writer|Updated Aug 21, 2019

    Fallbrook Girls Rugby Club's Tiahna Padilla and Abbey Savin were chosen to participate in USA Rugby's Girls High School All-American XVs camp in Canada Aug. 7-12. Padilla, who will be a sophomore at Fallbrook High, and Savin, a senior at Great Oak High School in Temecula, trained with more than 30 other top athletes from the western portion of the United States at the camp led by team manager Margaret Sharp and assistant coaches Sue Whitwell, Josie Ziluca and Tim Zern. The...

  • Gov. Newsom signs police use of deadly force bill

    City News Service|Updated Aug 21, 2019

    SAN DIEGO - Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday, Aug. 19 signed legislation co-authored by a San Diego lawmaker that redefines when law enforcement officers can use deadly force. AB 392, co-written by Assemblywoman Shirley Weber, D-San Diego, will hold law enforcement officers liable for homicide if an investigation finds the use of deadly force on a civilian was necessitated by the officer's own actions. Law enforcement will still be able to use deadly force as self-defense, but only when "necessary.'' Weber co-authored the...

  • San Diego Zoo Safari Park rhino calf explores main exhibit for first time

    City News Service|Updated Aug 20, 2019

    SAN DIEGO - A 22-day-old southern white rhino at the San Diego Zoo's Safari Park took his first steps on Monday, Aug. 19 into the main exhibit yard. In his first foray out of the maternity area, Edward and his mother Victoria ran around the perimeter of the two-acre Nikita Kahn Rhino Rescue Center for nearly 30 minutes, according to zookeepers. The two had remained cordoned off since Edward's July 28 birth to allow them to bond and the 243-pound calf to build up stamina and weight. He weighed 148 pounds at birth. "The second...

  • Burrows wins gold and silver medals at Pan American Games

    Joe Naiman, Village News Correspondent|Updated Aug 20, 2019

    Brian Burrows won two medals at the Pan American Games. The 2007 Fallbrook High School graduate won the gold medal in the men's trap shooting event. Burrows and Rachel Tozier took the silver medal in the mixed trap shooting competition in which their American counterparts won by a single shot in the tiebreaking round. The Pan American Games were held in Lima, Peru, and the trap shooting competition took place July 29-31 at Las Palmas Air Base in Lima. Burrows attended Cal State University San Marcos after his Fallbrook High S...